What To Do With Two Covers: A Simple Solution

One of the great things about doing the Jazz Collector site is that I get to learn along with everyone else. Remember I did that post the other day about the two Teddy Charles Prestige covers and Rudolf replied, as I hoped he would, and he mentioned the Jon Eardley Seven, Prestige 7033, and how Prestige just decided one day that it would no longer be a Jon Eardley record and would now be a Zoot Sims record, Zoot Sims Down East, only they didn’t change the number, they just changed the packaging. And I read that and I thought to myself: Whoops, I think I have both of those records, in different parts of my collection: One under “E” for Eardley and the other under “S” for Sims. Now, here’s the real beauty of the entire situation:

I pulled out the Eardley record off the shelf and opened it and pulled out the vinyl and, yuck! The vinyl was an orange label Status, with Zoot named as the leader. Too bad, I thought, because the cover is in nice shape and has the original New York address. Then I went to the “S” area of my collection and pulled out the Zoot record and opened it and guess what? The record was an original New York pressing of, tada, the Jon Eardley Seven. So I took the record out of the Zoot cover and placed it in the Jon Eardley cover and put it back on my shelf under the E’s and took the Zoot Sims Status record and put it inside the Zoot Sims Down East cover and placed it on the shelf alongside the second cover of the Teddy Charles LP, both of which will be coming soon to an eBay near you. And now I have an original New York pressing of The Jon Eardley Seven, Prestige 7033 in an original New York cover of The Jon Eardley Seven, Prestige 7033. Not bad, if I do say so myself.