https://jazzcollector.com For those who love jazz Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:04:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 175772384 https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/the-lasting-value-of-blue-notes-or-not/ https://jazzcollector.com/blue-note/the-lasting-value-of-blue-notes-or-not/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 15:04:36 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=5774 Jazz Collector is on WordPress and, as such, I have access to a bunch of statistics on the site. I mention this because I noticed [...]

The post The Lasting Value of Blue Notes. Or Not first appeared on jazzcollector.com.]]> Jazz Collector is on WordPress and, as such, I have access to a bunch of statistics on the site. I mention this because I noticed yesterday that there was a spike in viewership and many of the readers were looking at a trio of articles I wrote in 2010 when my friend Red Carraro passed away. Original articles are here, here and here. Anyway, I dug a little deeper and the new viewers came from this site, Steve Hoffman Music Forums. There’s a whole discussion going on there about Blue Notes and prices and why collectors pay so much for them and whether the market will continue to rise or whether it will eventually plummet and die. Worth taking a look, and perhaps worth continuing over here. For my part, I am of two minds. The great thing about the original pressings is that they will always be the only originals no matter how many times they are reissued and there will always be a limited supply. Plus, the look great, sound great, and certainly capture the era and the feeling like nothing else. Then again, you get the sense that today’s most avid collectors are probably in their 50s and up, and perhaps that is being generous. Twenty years from now, when those collectors are gone and/or not pursuing the passion so avidly, will people still care so much for original Kenny Dorham or Hank Mobley records? We will have passed the point where anyone alive will even remember when some of these artists were alive and creating the music, and will have no recollection of ever seeing these records in record stores or shop windows. You do wonder if the market is sustainable for future generations. At least I do. By the way, some other quick stats for you. We now average about 1,100 page views every day on Jazz Collector and we are approaching 1.2 million total views since we started the site. Not bad, huh?

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