king ubu Posted February 26, 2012 Report Posted February 26, 2012 Bill, they're all playable, in fact most of them without surface noise and with covers that look like they've been treated very carefully... I guess that's NM+ or some such in vinyl lingo. Haven't yet listened to the Leimgruber... but at around 6$ it was a steal (as were some of the others). (Reality check: gigantic [largest size] cup of coffee at darn Starbucks would cost quite a bit more than that.) Quote
sidewinder Posted February 26, 2012 Report Posted February 26, 2012 (Reality check: gigantic [largest size] cup of coffee at darn Starbucks would cost quite a bit more than that.) Yikes - prices these days in Switzerland are even worse than I remember (and that was bad!) Quote
king ubu Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Got the Basie Vol. 11-20 (1941-1951) box in... for just under 22€ - looks very good, some records virtually unplayed, some with minor fingerprints and a few scratches that look harmless... will spin some of it very soon! Quote
sidewinder Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) Got the Basie Vol. 11-20 (1941-1951) box in... for just under 22€ - looks very good, some records virtually unplayed, some with minor fingerprints and a few scratches that look harmless... will spin some of it very soon! I passed on 2 mint copies of those boxes (the orange one and the blue one) some years ago for £10 each. Regretted it ever since ! Edited March 1, 2012 by sidewinder Quote
king ubu Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 Got the orange one last autumn... the box itself in better condition, but vinyl all looks good and clean in both boxes. Love having it all, finally! (Though I guess I would have enjoyed a complete Mosaic CD box even more.) Quote
brownie Posted March 1, 2012 Report Posted March 1, 2012 (Though I guess I would have enjoyed a complete Mosaic CD box even more.) The sound would have been an improvement! My main beef against those two French CBS boxes. Love them anyway... Quote
JSngry Posted March 2, 2012 Report Posted March 2, 2012 My Holy Grail Lester Young record (at least of the ones I know about...)...The Young Brothers band, airshots from his brief 1944 return to Basie, every cut supreme in every way and none of it commonly circulated to this day. Found it still sealed on a By-It-Now deal from some guy in Miane (not Alan Lowe) for $17.50...I've been willing to pay more than several time that for it if I could ever find a copy, which I haven't been. The postman just dropped it off. Thanks, Bill from Maine (who included a pack of Branson On Stage trading cards, for, I guess, good measure. Today is a GOOD day. Quote
paul secor Posted March 4, 2012 Report Posted March 4, 2012 Not vinyl as such, but relates to it. Picked up a nearly new hardcover 1st edition (wonder if there was more than one edition) of Gunther Schuller's The Swing Era for $15 - not a steal, but an ok price. My local library has a copy, but I've found that there's too much to take in on "borrowed" time, so I bought my own. Quote
Dave James Posted March 5, 2012 Report Posted March 5, 2012 It wasn't me although I was sorely tempted. Someone just landed Volumes 1-3 of the Complete Commodore Recordings on Mosaic for $560. 66-LP's in near mint condition. According to the tease, they'd only been played once. That's about $8.50 per record. Not a bad score as an investment in music or simply as an investment. Quote
sidewinder Posted March 5, 2012 Report Posted March 5, 2012 It wasn't me although I was sorely tempted. Someone just landed Volumes 1-3 of the Complete Commodore Recordings on Mosaic for $560. 66-LP's in near mint condition. According to the tease, they'd only been played once. That's about $8.50 per record. Not a bad score as an investment in music or simply as an investment. Wow ! Was that on ebay? Quote
Clunky Posted March 5, 2012 Report Posted March 5, 2012 a few years ago my local 78 store had the Commodore boxes. Each LP was £3 !!! I kicked myself for missing out but got Basie Roulette Live,(LP) Woody Herman Columbia (CD) & Sidney Bechet (LP) at those prices per disc !!! Quote
slide_advantage_redoux Posted March 5, 2012 Report Posted March 5, 2012 Just was browsing Ebay under "jazz". I spotted a copy of Grant Green's Green Street (Blue Note) with 20 seconds left. Amazingly I managed to pull it off.....@ $2.75! Quote
Dave James Posted March 6, 2012 Report Posted March 6, 2012 It wasn't me although I was sorely tempted. Someone just landed Volumes 1-3 of the Complete Commodore Recordings on Mosaic for $560. 66-LP's in near mint condition. According to the tease, they'd only been played once. That's about $8.50 per record. Not a bad score as an investment in music or simply as an investment. Wow ! Was that on ebay? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mosaic-Complete-Commodore-Jazz-Recordings-Vol-1-2-3-EX-/330693810399?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4cfee318df#ht_500wt_948 Quote
king ubu Posted March 6, 2012 Report Posted March 6, 2012 no really great finds, but hey... one might be (finally) the definitive way to play Pres' Savoy sides, and the other five have great covers and all six were cheap: The Essential Coleman Hawkins (Verve Germany, 2304 537) Lester Young - Pres / The Complete Savoy Recordings The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 1 - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 2 - Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 3 - Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines The Louis Armstrong Story Volume 4 - Louis Armstrong Favorites The Pres contains one of the tracks from the Playboy festival (which I don't need any longer as I've got that Spotlight LP with the mean cover) and some selections from Verve, plus one early side with J.J. and Bennie Green, plus the also early (but Verve) "Picasso"... I got it for it's lovely foldout cover with a great picture of Hawkins on front: The Satchmos... well, no need for them really, but they just look and feel wonderful and the covers are all in very good shape, too! They're not originals, I guess, they have x "LP" 4964 and following numbers printed onto the labels), but they were cheap and look and feel wonderful! Quote
slide_advantage_redoux Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 (edited) I happened to be driving in a part of town I usually don't get to most of the time today. While there I saw a garage sale going on so I stopped. Holy shit I am glad I did! Talk about a goldmine!! I saw a few promising LPs, so I asked the guy how much. He says $4.00 gets the entire box. Hell yeah! Here is what I scored. Arista/Freedom Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Paris Session Gato Barbieri / Dollar Brand Anthony Braxton - Duets 1976 Roswell Rudd - Inside Job Archie Shepp - There's a Trumpet in My Soul Archie Shepp - Montreaux II Black Jazz The Awakening - Hear, Sense and Feel Black Saint Roscoe Mitchell - The Flow of Things Candid: Steve Lacy - The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy Checker Jimmy Reeves, Jr - Born to Love Me Cobblestone Neal Creque - Creque Crimson Soul Survivors - When the Whistle Blows, Anything Goes ECM Abercrombie/Holland/DeJohnette - Gateway II Arild Andersen - Shimri Arild Anderson - Green Shading Into Blue Jack DeJohnette Directions - Untitled Jan Garbarak Quartet - Afric Pepperbird Art Lande/Rubica Patrol - Desert Marauders Oregon - Oregon Crossing Barre Phillips - Three Day Moon Barre Phillips - Journey Violone II Julian Priester - Polarization Impulse Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery John Coltrane - The Africa Brass Sessions II Sam RIvers - Crystals Archie Shepp - Live in San Francisco Archie Shepp - New Grass Archie Shepp - Attila Blues Japo Dollar Brand - African Piano JCOA Carla Bley - Elevator Over the Hill Music Works Kazuko Shiraishi - Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane Novus Air - Montreaux Suisse Ogun Irene Schweitzer - p; Rudiger Carl - tenor sax; /Radu Malfatti - trb; /Harry Miller - bass; /Paul Lovens - drums - Ramifications (2 copies) Prestige John Coltrane - Stardust Sackville Roscoe Mitchell - Duets with Anthony Braxton Vee Jay Eric Dolphy Memorial Album Warner Brothers Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Kirkatron John Simon - Journey There are a few others, but these were the highlights. I usually wouldn't list finds on here, but this time it merits doing so. Sorry if I seem to be bragging on my luck, but I nearly crapped my pants. I was pinching myself all the way back to the van. Many were in plastic sleeves and none of them have any visual wear, as if they are unplayed. WTF!! Edited April 5, 2012 by slide_advantage_redoux Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 potential GF for one of our peeps here if you bid right: theres actually a 45rpm (ending soon) of the two "stop driving us crazy" tunes by Benny Golson (Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, et al).....it looks legit, offical United Methodist Church of Wash DC issue. im not getting it, although some lucky fool sure is, for a whole lotta dough, sorry i dont have a link right now, ebays not loading right, right now Quote
colinmce Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 Now I'm depressed ... I happened to be driving in a part of town I usually don't get to most of the time today. While there I saw a garage sale going on so I stopped. Holy shit I am glad I did! Talk about a goldmine!! I saw a few promising LPs, so I asked the guy how much. He says $4.00 gets the entire box. Hell yeah! Here is what I scored. Arista/Freedom Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Paris Session Gato Barbieri / Dollar Brand Anthony Braxton - Duets 1976 Roswell Rudd - Inside Job Archie Shepp - There's a Trumpet in My Soul Archie Shepp - Montreaux II Black Jazz The Awakening - Hear, Sense and Feel Black Saint Roscoe Mitchell - The Flow of Things Candid: Steve Lacy - The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy Checker Jimmy Reeves, Jr - Born to Love Me Cobblestone Neal Creque - Creque Crimson Soul Survivors - When the Whistle Blows, Anything Goes ECM Abercrombie/Holland/DeJohnette - Gateway II Arild Andersen - Shimri Arild Anderson - Green Shading Into Blue Jack DeJohnette Directions - Untitled Jan Garbarak Quartet - Afric Pepperbird Art Lande/Rubica Patrol - Desert Marauders Oregon - Oregon Crossing Barre Phillips - Three Day Moon Barre Phillips - Journey Violone II Julian Priester - Polarization Impulse Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery John Coltrane - The Africa Brass Sessions II Sam RIvers - Crystals Archie Shepp - Live in San Francisco Archie Shepp - New Grass Archie Shepp - Attila Blues Japo Dollar Brand - African Piano JCOA Carla Bley - Elevator Over the Hill Music Works Kazuko Shiraishi - Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane Novus Air - Montreaux Suisse Ogun Irene Schweitzer - p; Rudiger Carl - tenor sax; /Radu Malfatti - trb; /Harry Miller - bass; /Paul Lovens - drums - Ramifications (2 copies) Prestige John Coltrane - Stardust Sackville Roscoe Mitchell - Duets with Anthony Braxton Vee Jay Eric Dolphy Memorial Album Warner Brothers Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Kirkatron John Simon - Journey There were are a few others, but these were the highlights. I usually wouldn't list finds on here, but this time it merits doing so. Sorry if I seem to be bragging on my luck, but I nearly crapped my pants. I was pinching myself all the way back to the van. Many were in plastic sleeves and none of them have any visual wear, as if they are unplayed. WTF!! Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 I happened to be driving in a part of town I usually don't get to most of the time today. While there I saw a garage sale going on so I stopped. Holy shit I am glad I did! Talk about a goldmine!! I saw a few promising LPs, so I asked the guy how much. He says $4.00 gets the entire box. Hell yeah! .... I usually wouldn't list finds on here, but this time it merits doing so. Sorry if I seem to be bragging on my luck, but I nearly crapped my pants. I was pinching myself all the way back to the van. Many were in plastic sleeves and none of them have any visual wear, as if they are unplayed. WTF!! Most of them are not my cup of tea at all but by any yardstick this is ONE HELL of a jazz find. Congrats! Enjoy! What I snapped up at a local record store mass clearout sale last Friday at 1 euro ($1.20) each definitely pales by comparison (some 50s Dixieland jazz originals, a couple of swing and modern jazz 10-inchers including Miles, Woody, Bix, Benny, reissue of 50s Sammy Price Paris recordings, a bit of Brubeck and a few more). Quote
king ubu Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 Now I'm depressed ... Me, too! And I want that second copy of Ramifications NOW Quote
clifford_thornton Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 Nice! I still don't have that Kazuko LP for whatever reason; it always looked interesting. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted April 1, 2012 Report Posted April 1, 2012 Nice! I still don't have that Kazuko LP for whatever reason; it always looked interesting. It looks interesting because you don't have it. Much money will be saved when you understand this. Quote
crispi Posted April 2, 2012 Report Posted April 2, 2012 Picked up a few Blue Notes today... John Patton - Understanding {U.S. Liberty sleeve and 1968 German pressing with VAN GELDER in the deadwax} Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch {70's Liberty blue label reissue} Baby Face Willette - Stop and Listen {90's Connoisseur vinyl} All sound very nice (the Connoisseur being the best of them, what a surprise) and were under 20€ each. Quote
shaft Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Yeah that kind of superscore only happens once a year - like APRIL 1st Quote
crispi Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Yeah that kind of superscore only happens once a year - like APRIL 1st Haha. Good call. (I guess you're refering to slide_advantage_redoux' post.) Quote
Bill Nelson Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 This vast LP score means you'll have to use a special 'long form' when doing your taxes for 2012. Quote
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