Thad Jones, Detroit-New York Junction, Blue Note 1513. Two copies of this sold recently. One was a Lexington Avenue pressing that was in M- condition, both record and cover. It sold for $776. The other copy was also a Lexington Avenue pressing, but it looked to be in VG+ condition. It sold for $423.

The Magnificent Thad Jones Volume 3, Blue Note 1546. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing. The record was VG++ and the cover was VG. Price: $338

Bennie Green, Walking Down, Prestige 7049. This was a yellow label, New York address copy. The record was M- and the cover was VG++. Price: $225.50

Jon Eardley Seven with Zoot Sims, Prestige 7033. This was an original New York pressing. The record and cover were both in VG++ condition. Price: $515

John Coltrane, Coltrane, Prestige 7015. This was an original New York label. The record and cover were both in VG+ condition. The price was $327. Another copy of this also sold. This one was a VG+ vinyl with a VG++ cover. The price was $338.

John Coltrane, Blue Train, Blue Note 1577. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing. The record was M- and the cover was VG+. Price: $404

Sahib Shihab, Seeds, Vogue 17165. This was a German pressing, stereo copy. The record and cover were both M-. Price: $374.91.

Lucky Thompson, Lucky Strikes, Transition 21. This was an original pressing, no booklet. The record was VG and the cover VG+. Price: $152.50

Ben Webster, Music With Feeling, Norgran 1039. This was an original yellow label pressing with the David Stone Martin cover. The record and cover were both M- and the price was $134.50. Also, Ben Webster, The Consummate Artistry, Norgran 1001. This was a yellow label pressing. The record was VG+ and the cover was M-. The price was $104.49.

Hal McKusick Quintet, Coral 57131. This was an original pressing in VG++ condition. Price: $49

Also, Hal McKusick, East Coast Jazz, Bethlehem 16. This was an original red label pressing. The record was VG++ and the cover was VG+. Price: $127.50

A couple from Jackie Mclean. Jackie’s Pal, Prestige 7068. This was an original New York pressing. The record was VG+ and the cover was VG++. The price was $417.30. Jackie McLean, Alto Madness, Prestige 7114. This was an original New York pressing. The record was M- and the cover was VG+. Price: $610.01

Stan Getz, West Coast Jazz, Norgran 1032. This was an original yellow label pressing with the cover by David Stone Martin. The record was VG+ and the cover was VG. Price: 67

Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan, Blue Note 1540. This was a West 63rd Street pressing — not an original. The record was VG++ and the cover was VG+. Price: $444.99

Paul Chambers, Whims of Chambers, Blue Note 1534. This was also a West 63rd Street pressing — not an original. The record and cover were both in VG+ condition. Price: $162.49

Freddie Hubbard, Going Up, Up, Up, Blue Note 4056. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing. The record and cover were both M-. Price: $461.77

Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell, Prestige 103. This was a 10-inch LP in M- condition, both vinyl and cover. Price: $276.50

Stay tuned for more updates on recent auctions.

Thelonious Monk, Monk, Prestige  7053. This is an original pressing with the cover art designed by Andy Warhol. The seller provides some interesting background on the cover. For instance, it notes that the cover was hand-written by Warhol’s mother, which we never knew. For the seller, it always pays to have nice detailed information like this. This record, which looks to be in M- condition, is currently priced at $540. 

Miles Davis, Bags’ Groove, Prestige 7109. This is listed as a yellow label. We asked the seller which address and it is a New Jersey address, so be aware. The record and cover both seem to be in VG+ condition. The current price is about $50. 

Dave Bailey Quintet, Reaching Out, Jazztime 003. This is an original pressing. The record seems to be in M- condition and the cover looks about VG. The current price is $305. 

Here’s one that wouldn’t normally hit our radar screen, but we’re sure some of you Jazz Collector readers out there will be interested: Albert Ayler, New York Eye and Ear Control, ESP 1016. This looks to be in M-/VG++ condition. The current price is $91. 

Here are a bunch more from today:

Beverly Kenney, Born To Be Blue, Decca 78850. This is an original black label pressing. The record and cover are both listed in M- condition. The current price is already more than $200. 

Leo Parker, Let Me Tell You ‘Bout It, Blue Note 4087. This is an original pressing. The seller doesn’t provide a grade, but based on his description both the cover and vinyl seem to be in VG++ condition. The current price is $91. 

Roy Haynes, Cracklin’, New Jazz 8286. This is an original purple label pressing. Again, no grade from the seller, but it looks to be VG++/VG++. The current price is $77.

Marty Paich, I Get A Boot Out of You, Warner Brothers 1349. This is an original stereo pressing. The record is VG+ and the cover looks to be VG+ or better. The current price is $100.99. We’ve bought and sold from this seller and we know him to be very reputable. He also has some other nice records up today, so it’s worth viewing his other items as well. 

Curtis Fuller Volume 3, Blue Note 1583. This is an original mono pressing with the West 63rd Street address. The record is in VG++ condition and the cover is M-, still in its original shrink wrap. The current price is $122.50, but we don’t expect it to last too long in that range.

Dexter Gordon, Daddy Plays the Horn, Bethlehem 36. This is an original pressing. Both the record and cover are listed in M- condition. The current price is $325. 

Kenny Drew, This is New, Riverside 236. This is an original white label pressing. The seller lists the vinyl as VG++. The cover looks to be VG+. The current price is $52. We have it listed once in the Jazz Collector Price Guide at more than $150. 

Finally, here’s a beauty: Thad Jones, Detroit-New York Junction, Blue Note 1513. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing. The record is listed as VG+/VG++ and the cover is listed as VG+. The current price is about $400.

Gigi Gryce, Rat Race Blues, New Jazz 8262. This was an original pressing, deep groove, purple label. Both the record and cover were in M- condition. Price: $205.50

Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House, Blue Note 1515. This was an original Lexington Avenue pressing. The record was VG- and the cover was VG. Price: $201.50

Art Farmer Quintet with Gigi Gryce, Prestige 209. This is a 10-inch LP. Record was M- and the cover was VG+. Price: $190

Hank Mobley Quintet, Blue Note 1550. This was an original pressing. The record was VG+ and the cover was VG. Price: $435

Donald Byrd, Byrd in Hand, Blue Note 4019. This was an original pressing with the West 63rd Street address. The record was VG++ and the cover was VG+. Price: $232.82

Dexter Gordon, Daddy Plays the Horn, Bethlehem 36. This was an original deep groove mono pressing with the red label. Record was VG++, cover was VG+. Price: $400

Blue Mitchell, Out of the Blue, Riverside 293. This was an original pressing with the blue label. Record was M- and the cover was VG++. Price: $296.60

Chet Baker and Art Pepper, Playboys, World Pacific 11234. This was an original pressing. Record was M- and cover was VG+. Price: $371

Max Roach, We Insist, Candid 8002. This was an original mono pressing. The record was M- and the cover was VG++. Price: $75

Art Pepper, Modern Art, Intro 606. This was an original pressing in VG condition. Price: $415

Dave Burns, Warming Up, Vanguard 9143. This was an original pressing. The record was M- and the cover was VG+. Price: $90

Donald Byrd, Fuego, Blue Note 4026. This was an original pressing with the West 63rd Street address. Record and cover were M-. Price: $317

Please check out the Jazz Collector Price Guide whenever you get a chance. We try to update it every week, but are not always fully successful.

Sahib Shihab, Conversations, Polydor 623257. This was an original pressing in M- condition. Price: $256

Billy Bauer, Let’s Have A Session, Ad Lib 5501. This was an original pressing with the red label. The record was in M- condition and the cover was VG++. It sold for $160. I have two personal Billy Bauer stories. Back in the early 1970s, I had a gig as a rhythm guitarist accompanying my friend Dan Axelrod. My musical talents are, to be generous, modest at best, but Dan taught me enough chords to support him while he soloed. At the time Dan was taking lessons from Billy Bauer and one night Bauer came down to see us with a group of his other students.

And, during our first set, Bauer told all of his students to keep a careful eye on what I was doing because I was swinging so well and doing what a good accompaniest ought to be doing. It was, and still is, the highlight of my musical career. Fast forward 30-something years, I’m standing in Tower Records in Westbury, Long Island, browsing in the magazine section. Some little old man comes up to me and asks if I’ve seen the latest issue of Guitar Player Magazine. I point him towards it, he thanks me and says they just did a profile of him. Really, I say. Who are you? Billy Bauer, he replies. A few weeks later, sadly, I got a call from Dan: Billy Bauer had passed away.

Back to the records:

The Return of Art Pepper, Jazz West 10. This was an original pressing. The record was VG and the cover was VG+. Price: $162.50

Booker Ervin, That’s It, Candid 8014. This was an original pressing in M-/M- condition. Price: $255

Here’s that Roland Kirk record I mentioned the other day: Roland Kirk, Third Dimension, Bethlehem 6064. This was an original pressing in M- condition. Price $338

Finally, here’s that Jackie McLean record I threatened to bid on: Jackie McLean, Jackie’s Pal, Prestige 7068. This was an original pressing. The vinyl was VG and the cover VG+. Price: $202.50

I’ll be back with more later. Stay tuned.

I also saw him perform after he had his stroke and was partially paralyzed and, while it was a gallant effort, it was sad to watch. He was a fraction of his old self and, unfortunately, his ideas far exceeded his physical abilities. As mentioned, I never felt his own recordings lived up to either his talents or his energy. In fact, aside from this one side of Volunteered Slavery, my favorite recording of Kirk on vinyl is Charles Mingus, Oh Yeah, Atlantic 1377. And I’ve listened to all of his other records — at least I thought I had until I was browsing on eBay this morning and noticed a Roland Kirk record I had never before seen.

I’ve been collecting jazz records since 1970 (if you want the whole sordid story of how it began, go to Song For My Father)  and it always startles me when I see a record that is new to my eyes or ears — yet it seems to happen fairly often, which is a tribute to the vast number of jazz LPs recorded and reissued in the past 50-plus years, as well as to the power of eBay as a medium to communicate information to collectors.

Anyway, the rare Kirk record of which I speak is this one: Roland Kirk, Third Dimension, Bethlehem 6064. This is an original pressing in M- condition and it is being offered by the most reputable of sellers, Euclid Records. Alas, as much as I would love to own this record, it is already priced at $333 and it will probably go for much more, and that is beyond what I would like to pay these days, particularly as I am more interested in reducing my collection rather than increasing it. 

If anyone out there would like to give us more insight about this record, or would like to share his or her own memories of Roland Kirk, that would be welcome and wonderful.

This one had the highest price of all the ones we’re entering: Sonny Clark, Sonny’s Crib, Blue Note 1576. This was an original pressing in VG++/VG+ condition. Price: $1,524.99

Eddie Costa, House of Blue Lights, Dot 3206. This was an original pressing in VG++/VG++ condition. Price: $355

Red Garland at the Prelude, Prestige 7170. This was an original pressing in M-/M- condition. Price: $79. This sold on another auction for $338.70 recently. 

Lou Donaldson, Sonny Side Up, Blue Note 5036. This was an original pressing with the original cover in VG+/VG+ condition. Price: $156.10

Charlie Rouse, Yeah!, Epic 16012. This was in M-/VG++ condition and sold for $416.51.

Jackie McLean, Bluesnik, Blue Note 4067. This was a West 63rd pressing in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $236.06

Sal Salvador Quintet, Blue Note 5035. This was a 10-inch LP in M-/M- condition. Price> $129.62

Jackie McLean, Jackie’s Bag, Blue Note 4051. This was VG++/VG++ and sold for $169.

Charles Mingus, the Complete 1959 CBS Sessions, Mosaic MQ4-143. This was a 4-record boxed set and sold for $133.50

Mal Waldron, Mal-1, Prestige 7090. This was an original New York yellow label in VG++/VG++ condition. Price $455

Elmo Hope, Informal Jazz, Prestige 7043. This was an original pressing in M-/VG++ condition. Price: $997.97

Jerome Richardson, Midnight Oil, New Jazz 8205. This was a purple label original in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $224.50

Lester Young, Le Dernier Message, Barclay 84-009. This was in VG+/VG + condition. Price: $518

Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop, Riverside 326. This was an original blue label pressing in M-/VG++ condition. Price: $190.50

Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Music, Riverside 242. This was an original white label pressing in VG++/VG+ condition. It sold for $117.50, quite a bit off the $3,000 previous high.

Gigi Gryce, When Farmer Met Gryce, Prestige 7085. This was an original New York yellow label in M-/M- condition. Price: $560

Charlie Parker, With Strings, Mercury 35010. This was a 10-inch LP in VG++/VG++ condition. Price: $383

Duke Pearson, Tender Feelin’s, Blue Note 4035. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $610.07

Betty Bennett, Nobody Else But Me, Atlantic 1226. This was a black label in VG++/VG+ condition and it sold for $127.12

Bill Berry, For Duke, RealTime 101. This was M-/VG++. Price: $102.50

Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Prestige 7079. This was an original orange cover and New York label in VG+/VG+ condition. Price: $260

Frank Rosolino, I Play Trombone, Bethlehem 26. This was an original red label pressing in VG+/VG+ condition. Price: $137.50

Pepper Adams Plays the Music of Charles Mingus, Workshop 219. This was a stereo pressing in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $94.89

Lou Donaldson, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, Blue Note 1537. This was a Lexington Avenue pressing in M-/VG condition. Price: $796

Freddie Hubbard, Open Sesame, Blue Note 4040. This was an original West 63rd pressing in VG++/VG+ condition. Price: $383

Jackie McLean, Jackie’s Pal, Blue Note 7068. This was an original New York yellow label in VG/VG+ condition. Price: $170.50

Sweets Edison, Sweets, Verve 8097. This had the trumpeter logo and was in M-/M- condition. Price: $44.49

Lester Young, Pres and Sweets, Norgran 1043. This was an original yellow-label pressing in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $230.50

John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio, Prestige 7123. This was an original New York yellow label with the original cover in M-/VG condition. Price: $372.99

That’s all for now.

We start out Friday with a record I LOVE: Lou Donaldson, Quartet, Quintet, Sextet, Blue Note 1537. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing in M-/VG condition. It’s already at $364 dollars, which is too rich for my blood in this condition, even though I STILL don’t own an original of this.

Sometimes the way in which a record is listed on eBay makes all the difference. Take this record: Frank Rosolino, I Play Trombone, Bethlehem 26. The key to this record as a collectible is the presence of Sonny Clark in a nice quartet setting. But the seller didn’t bother to put it in. But now you know. 

One more in the same category: Gil Evans Plus Ten, Prestige 7120. This record always seems to sell better when it’s mentioned that Steve Lacy is one of the musicians. 

You don’t think of jazz records on the Motown label, but here’s one on a Motown affiliate: Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charles Mingus, Workshop 219. It’s a nice record, too.

Finally, there’s the seller Mojee, who has a bunch of very nice records on eBay this weekend, including Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, Blue Note 4195.

Kenny Dorham and Jackie McLean, Inta Somethin’, Pacific Jazz 41. This was an original pressing in M-/VG++ condition. We had targeted this is a potential bargain. It sold for $71. What do you think? Definitely a very nice record.

I have a feeling this one also may have been a bargain: Eric Dolphy, Out There, Prestige New Jazz 8252. This was an original purple label pressing in M- condition. Price. $103.51

Charles Mingus at the Bohemia, Debut 123. This was an original pressing in M-/VG+ condition. We expected it to go for a high price and it did, also beating the dealer’s reserve. Price: $460

Then there were the two Tal Farlow LPs on Norgran: The Interpretations of Tal Farlow, Norgran 1027. This was an original yellow-label pressing with a nice cover by David Stone Martin. Price: $150 The Artistry of Tal Farlow, Norgran 1014. This was an original yellow-label pressing in M-/VG+ condition. Price: $151.40. If you haven’t read it yet, we recommend the post on Tal from our friend, and Tal’s, Dan Axelrod. You can view it here. 

Lee Morgan, Indeed!, Blue Note 1538. This was an original Lexington Avenue pressing that seemed to be in VG++/VG+ condition. Price $898

Barbara Lea, Lea In Love, Prestige 7100. This was an original New York pressing in M-/VG++ condition. Price: $229

I guess our mention didn’t help to generate any interest in Sal Salvador records, even this one with Phil Woods and Eddie Costa, Shades of Sal, Bethlehem 39. It had a start price of $49.99 and didn’t sell. 

Dave Bailey, Reaching Out, Jazztime 003. This was an original pressing in VG+/VG+ condition. Price: $348

Sonny Rollins, Tour De Force, Prestige 7126. This was an original New York pressing in VG++/VG++ condition. Price: $162.66. Did you happen to catch our birthday tribute to Sonny a couple of weeks ago. If you missed it, click here. 

We had pointed out the other day that there was a copy of Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’, Blue Note 1588 that could be had for a buy-it-now price of $3,750. Shortly after that post, someone bought it for that price. We never realized we had such power. 

Here’s an interesting item that raises a question: Dexter Gordon, Daddy Plays the Horn, Bethlehem 36. This was a promo copy with the record in M- condition and the cover VG. It sold for $291.56. What’s interesting is that the seller notes that many of the available copies of this record have the promo stamp. Sure enough, I looked at my copy and there it was. Does anyone out there have any idea why this would be the case? If you do, please post it as a comment.

I did a post the other day on the market for Dave Brubeck collectibles. Here’s one that went for a higher price than expected: Dave Brubeck, Jazz At Oberlin, Fantasy 3-11. This was an original 10-inch LP with red vinyl in nice condition. Price: $50

Another one we were watching: Charlie Parker, Dial 203. This was an original 10-inch LP in what seemed like VG+ condition. Price: $393.80

We’ll be posting again later today, and we’ll be putting some of our own stuff on eBay this week. Nice stuff, indeed.