Watching Some Prestige Jazz Vinyl
Here’s some jazz vinyl we’re watching on eBay now:
Tommy Flanagan, The Cats, New Jazz 8217. This is an original pressing with the purple labels and deep grooves. It is a relatively early John Coltrane record featuring Trane as a sideman, along with Kenny Burrell. The record and cover are both in M- condition and the price is in the $250 range, but it has not yet reached the seller’s reserve. My personal story with this goes back nearly 40 years when I was doing some record trading with a sax player named David Krieger and I had a broken leg and couldn’t drive and something came up and he had to leave so I was alone in his basement with his entire record collection, including some gorgeous Blue Notes. I could have taken off with a few gems but of course I did not. I can’t ever look at a copy of The Cats and not think of Dave who sadly passed away earlier this year.
This one is a pretty one right in the time frame when Prestige was doing some of its best work:
Curtis Fuller, Soul Trombone, Prestige 7107. This is an original pressing with the yellow label and New York address. The record is VG+ and the cover is VG++. This one is in the $240 price range and still has more than a day and a half to go.
my love affair with “the Cats” goes back to the early sixties when second pressings (no deep grooves, a darker violet labels and a red RW stamp on the rear) flooded the Continent. All the copies of this series I laid my hands on had a pressing default in Eclypso. In the end I found my first faultless pressing on Esquire with a lovely photo cover of Tommy Flanagan.
Original first pressings of 8217 have a big $ 3.98 price tag printed on the paper slack top right. This one apparently has not.
This record is a typical product of Prestige’s heydays. Trane is just wonderful, as is the brassy Idress Suliman. But it is Tommy’s session.
Dave Krieger-good musician, good friend, good guy. Huge original Blue Note collector all mint, all originals, all the Mobleys. But had to sell them so his first wife wouldn’t put him in jail again for missing a support payment.
One day Steve Grossman paid Dave a visit and after he left, Dave’s collection was suddenly light. Jazz Delegation From the East on Bethlehem was missing. But Dave got off easy. When Grossman left tenorman Ned Otter’s apartment, Ned’s Selmer Mark VI Alto had disappeared!
In the clip below Dave isn’t playing anywhere up to his ability, but he was installing alarms at the time, passing by my house and a videocamera was on. Just a few choruses of Cherokee, but something is better than nothing. Rest easy, David.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7_6K9B-pE
this one did not sell at 510,07 (reserve not met), but another seller sold an even better copy for 372,89 this weekend.
Hey, Dan. Just catching up on posts. Thanks for posting the clip of Dave. As you note, it’s not Dave nearly at his best, but in the last chorus you can hear him easing into it and playing better.