Catching Up: Miles, Cannon — What’s Going On?

Back on eBay after a couple of days’ break. Those auctions we were watching from the seller bobdjukic closed and, while we’re not looking to give this seller any undue publicity, we are quite fascinated with the prices he is somehow able to obtain — even higher than top dealers such as The Jazz Record Center and Euclid Records. We will give a few examples: This one we noted before: Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool, Capitol 762. This is an original British pressing, not even an original U.S. issue. It was listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover and sold for an astounding $812.15. I recently sold a beautiful mint U.S. pressing of this record and was happy to get close to $100 for it. Is there something about the British pressing we’re not aware of? Doubt it, but somebody out there in the Jazz Collector world will know if there is. The other thing is, look at this quote from the seller’s description of Birth of the Cool:

“The earliest Miles Davis material in existence.” So we all know this is not even close to being true, on any level. Do people actually look at that and buy into it? And, if they do, who are they and how can I get them to bid on my records?  Here are two more items from the same seller from this weekend that went for prices way beyond the expected market value: Cannonball Adderley, Things are Gettin’ Better, Riverside 286. This was an original blue-label pressing. It was listed in M- condition for the vinyl and VG++ for the cover. It sold for $137.49. Also, Cannonball Adderley In New York, Riverside 404. This was also an original pressing. The vinyl was M- and the cover was VG++. The price was $91.

We’re hoping to spend a couple of hours this morning catching up on eBay and updating the Jazz Collector Price Guide, so stay tuned for more posts and take a look at the Price Guide later in the day because we’ll be adding quite a few records to the $1,000 bin.