Peculiar Tribe
Peculiar characteristics of Jazz collectors in Japan
The Peculiar Tribe!
Peculiar characteristics of Jazz collectors in Japan
The Peculiar Tribe!
You maybe remember that I featured mysterious Blue Note UA Blue Black Tone Label RVG pressings before…One side no RVG the other RVG.Again…this time, Blue Note Liberty Blue White Label pressings with the same kind of combination!The mysterious albums are…Bobby Hutcherson Happenings, Jackie McLean BluesnikBoth have the same combination, side 1 no RVG side 2…
Art Blakey released many albums, especially on Blue Note as you know. But there many others he released other than Blue Note and are great as well.In the past I featured some but this title isOne Of The Most Underrated Titles of Art Blakey!The title is A Night In Tunisia – Art Blakey on RCA VictorAs…
I believe this is a unique Jazz reissue and not known series by King Record,The Last Jazz LP SeriesKing Record picked up mainly Savoy and its related labels like Regent and so on.There are Part 1 up to Part 9!! and in each Part, there are 10 albums reissued. These reissued titles were released from…
While I am featuring this album, Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Himself, I just want to talk about the greatness of Jazz, or what makes Jazz musicians great.I love Monk, and among his albums, this Thelonious Himself is one of the best. The main reason is that when you listen to this album from the start…
This, Tommy Flanagan Lonely Town Blue Note GP 3186 by King Record is The Most Mysterious Record King Record Ever Made!That is what I believe, you know.And, not many collectors know that this title, Lonely Town by King Record is the 1st issue, pressing in the world. This is one of the titles in the 1st…
I already talked about the greatness of Disk Union Blue Note Premium Reissues.But…Did you know that they also reissued some other great jazz titles apart from Blue Note?Together with Blue Note titles, they added some other titles from other labels in the same series as BONUS TITLES. Here below, you can see the brochure they…
Regarding unused, and un-played Japan pressed Blue Note copies, have seen that here in the US with buyers who purchased Classic Records Re-Issues of Jazz, classical, rock, pop titles. Classic Records pressed Kind of Blue at least 4 times, with various vinyl formulations, some at 33, some at 45 RPM.
When Classic Records were pressed in the mid 1900s up through the early 2000s (by RTI in CA), many collectors I know would buy a “six pack” (6 copies) of the titles they really liked and would play a lot, since everyone knew there would be one pressing run and likely not another, so grab them while you can. Once the inventory was sold off that was it.
Today with the vinyl resurgence and so many younger people buying vinyl, some of the prices on the Classic Records 180 and 200 gram pressings have sky rocketed. As an example, Classic pressed the Led Zeppelin Box set all at 45 RPM on 200 Gram virgin vinyl. Average selling price for the box set is 6K USD, and a sealed copy recently sold for 25K USD.
John
Thanks for your comment! Really? I can not believe that…As I see the fats that you pointed out, I have a mixed feeling, happy to see young generations discovering the greatness of analog recording, at the same time, worried that the price is going up unreasonably high….