Great Finds

[six string]

I got a sealed copy of Baby Face Willette's Behind the Eight Ball for $6. I don't know the age of it. It's a grey label with a quarter size deep groove pressed into it. I'm pretty sure it's a fairly newish reissue but still...

At the same store I found a copy of George Russell's Jazz Workshop album but it's a French RCA reissue titled Ezz-thetics, not to be confused with his Riverside album with a similar title. Same price as the other lp but it wasn't sealed.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Terrible 'T'/Im a fool to want you Vee jay white label promo

[slide_advantage_redoux]

The Dallas Salvation Army store LP bin was fertile today!

Usually you get the standard run of Mantovani, etc. Today there was some real unique finds:

Odell Brown and the Organ-izers "Ducky" (Cadet)

Melvin Sparks "Sparkplug" (Prestige)

Luis Azcarraga and his hotel panama conjunto "El Panama Fiesta" (Panama Artists)

Edited October 19, 2010 by slide_advantage_redoux

[Mark Stryker]

"Salon Society." Narrated by Bill Manville, with Hank Jones, piano (Roulette R 501).

Julius Hemphill, "Coon Bid'ness" (Arista)

Both at Encore Records, Ann Arbor, MI

Edited October 31, 2010 by Mark Stryker

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Salvation Army finds all .99 ea

Arif Mardin Glass Onion - Atlantic 1969

New Voice in Town Marge Dodson - Columbia 6 eye

Les Brown Gershwin Songbook - Columbia 6 eye

Gordon Jenkins presents Marshall Royal - Everest

Ray Charles Crying Time - ABC/Paramount

Eberhard Weber Fluid Rustle - ECM 1979 w/ Bill Frisell Gary Burton and voices

Edited November 13, 2010 by slide_advantage_redoux

[BillF]

In a charity shop today, I came across a pile of Woody Herman vinyl. There must have been about 20 LPs, along with some Quincy Jones LPs (on Mercury/EmArcy), Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges and lots of Harry James.

If anybody's interested I'd be glad to pick them up later this week. I have a feeling there is an enormous stash in the back of the shop - the vinyl racks only hold about 60 LPs, and the staff seem to drip feed the goods in week by week.

So where's this shop, Richard?

[sidewinder]

Seems to be a common phenomenon to find charity shops with budles of Herman, Ellington, Basie etc. albums. Last bundle I came across was some Singers Unlimited albums - but I'm not a particular fan, unfortunately. Where are all of those Blakey, Andrew Hill and Tina Brooks charity shop bundles?

[colinmce]

A recent Ebay tear scored me these LPs for just under $45 shipped:

4xLP $3.99

6xLP $4.00

$2.00

both for $18

[slide_advantage_redoux]

I guess "great" is a matter of opinion, but I located these LPs today at an estate sale. It was run by the son's of the deceased, and I think that is why prices were so low. These all were $1. each.

"The Night Blooming Jazzmen under the dir. of Leonard Feather" / Mainstream MRL 348

feat:

Blue Mitchell

Ernie Watts

Fred Robinson

Chino Valdes

Paul Humphrey

Maz Bennett

Al McKibbon

Kitty Boswell

Reggie Moore "Wishbone" / Mainstream 341

feat:

R. Moore

Hank Haynie

Chip Lyles

Chuck Wayne trio "Tapestry" / Focus FS333

Chuck Wayne - gtr

Ernie Furtado - b

Jimmy Campbell - dr

Les Paul ands Mary Ford "Warm and Wonderful" / Columbia CS8488

Dave Brubeck Quartet "The Riddle" / Columbia CL 1454

feat: Bill Smith clarinet/comps by Bill Smith

Spike Jones New Band / Liberty LST-7349

"Washington Square the new band of Spike Jones" / Liberty LST-7338

West, Bruce, and Laing "Whatever Turns You On" / Columbia (Windfall) KC 32216

feat:

Lesley West

Jack Bruce

Cork Lainge

This LP was recorded in 1973, one year after Mountain had broken up, and one year before they reunited. The inclusion of Jack Bruce (Cream!) instead of Pappalardi is interesting.

[king ubu]

The Helen Merrill Mercury box - 4LPs in what seems to be great condition (I've not started playing it, the postman only just rang the bell) - for 40€ (plus 15€ shipping from France to here). Ain't life grand?

[king ubu]

Only just took out the booket (CD-sized, or rather to be exact: jewel-case-sized, meaning it was outside cardboard box, next to the jewel case, in the CD edition - at least I assume so).

There's a short essay in there - but Japanese only... was this ever published in in English anywhere?

Spinning the first side of the first LP now

[jeffcrom]

Only just took out the booket (CD-sized, or rather to be exact: jewel-case-sized, meaning it was outside cardboard box, next to the jewel case, in the CD edition - at least I assume so).

There's a short essay in there - but Japanese only... was this ever published in in English anywhere?

Spinning the first side of the first LP now

My CD edition (bought in the US 20 years ago) has an an essay by Hiraku Aoki in English, with no Japanese notes at all. Send me a PM with your email address, and I'll see if I can scan it and send you a copy.

[king ubu]

Only just took out the booket (CD-sized, or rather to be exact: jewel-case-sized, meaning it was outside cardboard box, next to the jewel case, in the CD edition - at least I assume so).

There's a short essay in there - but Japanese only... was this ever published in in English anywhere?

Spinning the first side of the first LP now

My CD edition (bought in the US 20 years ago) has an an essay by Hiraku Aoki in English, with no Japanese notes at all. Send me a PM with your email address, and I'll see if I can scan it and send you a copy.

Done - thanks a lot!

[Chicago Expat]

We found this about a year ago in one of the boxes of vinyl albums that my wife had stored at her grandmother's house over ten years ago.

It's a box set for "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book". It looks like this...

That's the cover of the box, and the cover of individual album vol. 1. All drawings are by Bernard Buffet, and all of them are terribly cool. The rest look like this...

The 40pg booklet wasn't in the box, but we have some places to look for it when we're so inclined. It's been over a year since we found it, and I still think it's pretty neat. I want to frame it more than I want to play it.

[ejp626]

I thought this was a pretty good deal. Munch Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ on 2 LPs for under $10 (eBay). I was the only bidder. Seller claims it is still in shrink wrap.

To be honest, I am not a huge fan of vocal classical music, but I have been gathering up a fair bit of Munch because of his heavy representation in the Living Stereo box set. Anyway, I just loved the cover, which looked like a page out of an illuminated manuscript

(don't know how long the image will be kept up).

Edited February 7, 2011 by ejp626

[sidewinder]

The Helen Merrill Mercury box - 4LPs in what seems to be great condition (I've not started playing it, the postman only just rang the bell) - for 40€ (plus 15€ shipping from France to here). Ain't life grand?

Jeez - shouldn't be allowed !

[clifford_thornton]

nice score. I still for whatever reason have yet to hear the date w/ Brownie.

[king ubu]

The Brownie date can be found on a CD, paired with the Gil Evans material (but about a third of that album is missing - which is a drag since the music would have easily fit in, but it seems Evans wasn't involved in one of the three dates).

[king ubu]

Got me the "Cool Jazz at Saint-Germain-des-Prés" 10 incher from the Jazz in Paris series... with lots of help from riverrat (from an amazon.com "domestic shipping only" marketplace vendor)... full total was still rather ok for such a rarity (45$):

Yowzah!

[mjazzg]

Black Suite - Jacques Coursil.

original BYG, clean copy. only $8, it cost more in postage!

I was only ebay bidder, very happy

[AndrewHill]

A routine stop at Half Price tonight yielded some astonshing finds:

Charles Mingus-Jazz Portraits-United Artists. Strong seams and tight corners with no ring wear. Vinyl is VG+ with a lots of shine. Has the original inner sleeve and even has a "Jazz Newsletter" included...for $5.98!!!

Modern Jazz Quartet/Milt Jackson Quintet-Prestige 7059. Nice heavy laminated cardboard sleeve with no seam splits, tight corners bright colors and very little ring wear. Vinyl is acceptable but when I looked closer at the labels, I couldn't believe my eyes when it had the West 50th street address, a deep groove and RVG in the dead wax! Vinyl is real heavy too and the back of the jacket has the West 50th street address as well. The only real blemish is that someone wrote "MJQ" with a magic marker on the back corner of the jacket but at least they wrote it neatly. The real shocker is that they priced this one at $3.98!!!!!!!!!!!! With my discount, I walked out the door with both records for under $10!

Edited March 9, 2011 by Holy Ghost

[clifford_thornton]

Nice scores. The Half Price Books outlets here charge $29.98 for routine green label Prestiges.

[Peter Johnson]

That's insulting. I actually laugh out loud when I see shit like that (usually followed with a barely audible "you gotta be fuckin' kidding me").

Nice scores. The Half Price Books outlets here charge $29.98 for routine green label Prestiges.

[Chicago Expat]

Nice scores. The Half Price Books outlets here charge $29.98 for routine green label Prestiges.

I've witnessed some pretty specious pricing at the Half Price Books in Kentucky as well (Louisville & Lexington locations). I don't much even bother looking anymore. Bad enough that I've traded my Chicago stores for bluegrass ones, worse when I encounter misguided pricing decisions like that.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Chicago Expat

[Larry Kart]

What I like about Half-Price books (at least at the store near me) are all the LPs and sets (especially classical stuff) for 50 cents each. Great chance to try things you might have missed or didn't even know about. E.g. a Chalabala disc of Dvorak tone poems ("The Water Sprite," et al.) with the Czech Philharmonic, a great disc of the Bach Motets cond. by Karl Forster, an excellent Eileen Farrell song secital, some old Decca disc, songs and arias, by that bird in a cage Rita Streich, a Russian Orchestral Music collection on DG by Markevitch, Karajan's latter-day "Magic Flute," which much to my surprise I like a lot, etc.