Sonny Rollins Plays, Period 1204. This was an original  deep-groove pressing listed in M- condition for the record and the cover, although the cover seemed slightly less to me. I’d love to own this record someday. Hard to imagine that it’s eluded me for more than 40 years, but that’s part of the joy of collecting, isn’t it: To always have something to look forward to. This one sold for $1,136.11.

Unissued Dizzy Gillespie on Four Acetates. This was the one being sold by The Jazz Record Center, from a pair of concerts at Cornell University in 1947 and 1948. I had toyed with the idea of purchasing them, digitizing them and making them public on Jazz Collector, but then I got involved with other stuff and lost track. They wound up selling for $795. I might have gone that high. Let’s see if the buyer has any plans for them. Buyer — are you a Jazz Collector reader?

This one I find really interesting:

Unissued Dizzy Gillespie on four acetates. This is apparently an unissued and undocumented recording of a concert by Dizzy’s big band at Cornell University, dated from November 5, 1948 — as well as five tracks from an earlier concert at Cornell. It seems kind of amazing that an undocumented concert would somehow become available more than 65 years after it took place. You would think that someone would perhaps buy this and make it generally available to the public? It would be good to digitize it, since acetates have a limited lifespan and can only be played a certain number of times before the sound quality deteriorates. Actually, as I write this, it seems Jazz Collector would be an appropriate forum for stuff like this. I’ll think about it and keep an eye on the price of the recordings. As you know, I not only don’t make any money doing Jazz Collector, but it actually costs me a bunch hosting the Web site and paying a Web expert to keep the site running and maintaining/upgrading it. Do you think there’d be an issue with royalties just posting the music here for free download?