Coming Up on Ebay: Rollins, Melle and Booker Ervin

Here are some interesting items we’re watching on eBay over the next few days:

Sonny Rollins, Saxophone Colossus, Prestige 7079. This is an original New York pressing with a promo stamp on the cover. The record is listed as M- and the cover is listed as VG++. The current price is about $115 with three days to go. It will be interesting to see the final price of this one, compared with the one sold earlier in the week by the Jazz Record Center, which went for $1,492. 

Gil Melle, Gil’s Guests, Prestige 7063. This is an original New York pressing with the yellow label. The record is listed as M- and the cover is VG++. The current price is about $100. As Rudolf pointed out in an earlier comment, the seller, Sweedeedee, has a nice variety of items up this week, including several vintage Prestige pressings, such as

this one, which happens to feature Kenny Dorham on trumpet, adding to its lustre as a collectible. 

This is one that will go for a high price that we didn’t realize had attained that status as a desired collectible: Booker Ervin, The Song Book, Prestige 7318. This is an original yellow label pressing –one of the last yellow labels — and it is in M- condition, both record and cover. It also has the advantage of being sold by one of the top jazz dealers, Euclid Records. The current price of this is more than $150 and there are still four days to go as I type this.