Comments on: To Unseal, or Not To Unseal: That is the Question

By: Gregory the Fish

Gregory the Fish — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:28:11 +0000

hey bob, what IS your email?

By: Bob Friedman (Dayton Records)

Bob Friedman (Dayton Records) — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:59:22 +0000

I am the person with the sealed record issue. I thank all those who responded.
My name is Bob Friedman
email

PS
I think there are a few Tal Farlows and they might be sealed.
I am in Begen County New Jersey

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:35:58 +0000

I too would love sharp copies of those Farlows. Nice!

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:31:21 +0000

Dear Horti62 once again one of the great puns of jazz names : Jimmy Gloomy= James Moody !

By: Horsti62

Horsti62 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:28:57 +0000

by the way: Who is “Jimmy Gloomy” on tenor and flute ?

By: Horsti62

Horsti62 — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:42:35 +0000

Tubby… good Idea… i just play “Tubby Hayes and the All Stars” – Return Visit! on Fontana, black Label-mono with Jimmy Gloomy, Roland Kirk, Walter Bishop, Sam Jones and Louis Hayes. Real nice sound…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 03:02:56 +0000

Jay:

I Love Roland Kirk. Wow and with Tubby Hayes ? I never new about this LP. I will get right on that !

Thanks

Cheers!

P.S Yes, play those sealed copies ! Never had a issue with sealed 40 + year old copies yet. Opened quite a few in my day and all were fine with no warping to my memory. Maybe I’m a lucky one….

By: Jay Fulmer

Jay Fulmer — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:47:01 +0000

Joseph,
Check out Tubby’s Back In Town on Smash – it’s his date with Roland Kirk, your description of TUBBS would apply to this Marvelous LP as well
Happy New Year

Sealed records only sound good after you open them (hopefully!)

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 06:53:37 +0000

Happy New Year To All !

Here I am Listening to TUBBS – Tubby Hayes -Fontana TFL 5142

I really like this LP and it has so many different sounds on it to appeal to every discerning Jazz taste.

Hard Bop , Cool , Big Band Swing , Hipster Cat , you name it !

Anyone else on this ?

Peace
Joseph

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:37:22 +0000

The question which should have been asked is “Should one open an authentically sealed album (i.e. FS – factory sealed) ?” To take Verve as an example, in Verve’s heydays, with the trumpeter label, their albums would come unsealed, this was standard practice. Only around V-8400, when they introduced gatefold sleeves, they would issue them factory sealed. So if the records from this collection are Annie Oakleys, with the seals punched, they are most likely later issues.
One has got to have been around in those days, to know the relative value of a “sealed” album. In the fifties very few labels issued their records FS. Verve, Blue Note, Pacific Jazz and Prestige were not amongst them, none of the Europeans (Vogue, Tempo, Esquire, Philips, Metronome) were.
In the late sixties many retail shops would, as a standard practice, seal their old stocks and left overs. The value of these “seals” is dubious. Upon opening the seal, one may find rubbish.