Comments on: Are Sales Drooping? Some Items For the Weekend

By: don-lucky

don-lucky — Sat, 22 May 2010 20:08:42 +0000

Hey guys… Remember that infamous ebay listing for a promo copy of Miles Davis – Kind of Blue LP with a “bargin” buy it now price of $5000 ? Guess what is back on ebay this weekend !!!

E-bay Item number: 320503988198
from the seller jazz*rock68…

Can’t blame him for trying, after all it is “the only one he has ever seen” !? (Someone actually made an offer on it too if you can believe it !) Al, was that you ? heh heh.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sat, 22 May 2010 09:36:32 +0000

Al: no system is 100% satisfactory. I got indeed trapped for a while into becoming a label completist, which is an unsound approach to collecting.

By: bethellodge

bethellodge — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:05:04 +0000

OMG Did I write “Bluenote”? What’s my penance? I may have to turn in my jazzcollector.com card and return my free collectible prize.

By: bethellodge

bethellodge — Sat, 22 May 2010 02:02:23 +0000

Having a manageable thousand or so records I can afford to use a complex and intuitive system of genres and subgenres. Avant-Garde stuff with avant-garde stuff, in-but-out stuff next to that, sixties post bop next to that etc…. this often defaults to labels and artists at the micro level. Bluenote to my ear has a distinct flavour in contrast to, say, Atlantic. I run into problems with artists who leap across sub-genres, like Miles and Hancock. Anyway, it changes with use and is constantly in flux.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:33:14 +0000

Rudolf, you’re always full of pleasant surprises. I tried doing it by labels and catalogue numbers once and it was great for the major labels such as Blue Note, Verve and Prestige although it had the unfortunate effect of making me want to fill in every single number, even if the missing number was a reissue or a record I would otherwise have had no interest in. I went back to sorting by artist and the compilations go at the very end after the Z’s. The other thing I’ve done, is I’ve broken them down by records pre-1970 and post-1970. Otherwise, it would be too many records for one room and too many records by some artists, such as Ella, Zoot, Stitt, Oscar, etc., who would just go on and on and on.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:53:51 +0000

Woodlore: this one has the original Prestige label used up to 7035. Compare with the later and final NYC label, as shown on 7066. The difference is in the letter type and the shade of yellow used.
7131: not right! I am filing my records by label and then by catalogue number. It is the only way to find a record. With compilations, all stars and co-op groups, filing by artists becomes complicated. What about Dick Bock’s anthologies? How to handle that??