The Long Awaited LP List - Part 1

[Dan Gould]

UPDATE:

PLEASE DISREGARD THIS LISTING - I AM NO LONGER SOLICITING BIDS, MOST OF THESE LPs CAN NOW BE FOUND HERE:

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...p=0&#entry0

WHERE THEY HAVE A SET PRICE OF $3 EACH, BUY 5 AND IT BECOMES $2 EACH. THE LPs NO LONGER LISTED WILL GO TO EBAY. THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS.

I hope this offer doesn't fall victim to "bad timing" since so much has changed since I first mentioned offering my LPs for sale. But I've finally gotten a chance to start pulling and grading the best of my collection, here goes. This is the first of what will be at least two lists. These were pulled from completely unorganized shelves, so just because they are in alphabetical order doesn't mean there aren't more items from the same artists coming.

GRADING:

Grading is cover/vinyl. Did I adhere to strict Goldmine standards? Well I'm not a professional - but I do note the significant defects as an explanation for the grade. In some cases, I referred to covers as "perfect but for ..." because in my opinion an absolutely beautiful cover with, say, a clipped corner is still a helluva nice jacket. I haven't bothered with photos due to the number of LPs being offered but I will post pictures or send them via email if people ask for specifics.

On the vinyl grade - if it is super clean and mark free, I called it NM. A few light scuffs, VG+. More and more scuffs, VG or VG-. For some, I spot-checked the record and may have brought the grade up due to the way it played, or simply made mention that it plays better than it looks. None of the vinyl was cleaned, so vinyl freaks who have a handy-dandy cleaning machine can pretty much bet that its likely that the vinyl is in better shape than it looks.

PRICES:

I'm not going to try and guess what a fair price is to get these to move. Therefore I am inviting offers, with the following provisos:

• Many of these LPs can be fairly priced at $4 to $10. If you make a fair offer, I am sure to accept. You can even get away with a lower per LP cost by buying more of these types of records.
  
• Some of these LPs are surely worth a lot more than $10 (the Workshop Jazz titles, for instance). But I am willing to forgo the time and expense of an eBay auction if reasonable offers are made. I know that vinyl titles here don't necessarily get a lot of response, but this is an opportunity where, for example, an LP that sells on eBay for $40 might get sold for $25 or so. So if you are looking for (relative) bargains, please make fair offers on the nicer, rarer copies. Should these not receive fair offers, off to eBay they will go.
  
• There are some Blue Notes in this batch, with others to come. Since I know that these tend to get a response, I reserve the right to wait and see if I get a higher offer. That applies to all titles, but I wanted to be explicit about the BNs.
  
• If an offer is made that I think is close enough to my conception of "fair", I may make a counter-proposal.
  
• Decisions of the seller are obviously final.
  

Feel free to ask questions about things like labels or to request photos. Shipping will be quoted. If I am successful with this sale, I'll have to find a source for LP boxes and charge a unit cost for that, as I will surely run out of LP boxes quickly. Unless otherwise noted, Japanese pressings do not include OBIs. Paypal is preferred, check or money orders accepted, and cash is accepted from those few who have expressed such a preference during the Stupendous CD Sale .

Last thing - despite the inexpensive nature of my TT, I have been known to get great sounding transfers, partially due to my careful removal of extraneous noises (manually, not using software that effects the music). Just ask Lon or David Weiss. That is to say that if CDR transfers exist, I'll be happy to include copies on request.

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Time Will Tell – The Big Band of John Anderson (Tangerine)

A rare one from Brother Ray's label. Bobby Bryant, Sweets, Lou Blackburn, Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Walter Benton, Jack Wilson among the best known in the band.

VG+/VG+

SOLD FOR $7

Georgie Auld Quintet Plays The Winners (Phillips)

With Frank Rosolino, Lou Levy, Leroy Vinnegar, Mel Lewis

VG+/VG+

Count Basie, Sixteen Men Swinging (Verve)

VG+ (ringwear)/VG+

Count Basie Story (Roulette Birdland Series – Deluxe Limited Edition)

This is the box set with a bust of Basie on top of a piano. Only two LPs and one very nice booklet. The idea behind the set was the current Basie band re-recording the original classics from the 30s band.

VG+ all around (light scuffs on the vinyl)

The Basie-Ites, How High The Moon (Jubilee)

Barry Harris/Joe Newman/Thad Jones/Al Grey/Billy Mitchell/Frank Foster/Frank Wess/Eddie Jones/Freddie Green/Sonny Payne

VG- due to extensive writing on back (little bit on front) but nice intact seams

VG- due to pressing bubbles, plays nice otherwise

Ruby Braff Goes Girl Crazy (Warner Brothers)

VG/VG-

Mel Brown, The Wizard (Impulse)

NM/VG

Odell Brown and the Organ-Izers, Raising the Roof (Cadet)

Beautiful NM cover/VG but plays very well

If you don't know, this is the most jazz-oriented Odell Brown record

Bobby Bryant, Big Band Blues (Vee Jay International)

This was recorded for Vee Jay in 1959 but not released til the 70s. James Spaulding and John Young are the best known members of the group

VG+/VG+

SOLD FOR $6

Conte Candoli, Little Band Big Jazz (Crown)

VG+/VG+ (red vinyl)

Joe Castro, Lush Life (Clover)

VG+ cover/VG- vinyl

Arnett Cobb, Keep on Pushin' (Bee Hive)

With Joe Newman, Al Grey, Junior Mance

NM/NM

A Buck Clayton Jam Session Volume IV, Jayhawk (Chiaroscuro)

VG+ (price sticker on back)/VG+

Continuum, Mad About Tadd – The Compositions of Tadd Dameron (Palo Alto)

Slide Hampton/Jimmy Heath/Kenny Barron/Ron Carter/Art Taylor

VG+ (dinged lower left corner, price tag upper right corner)/NM vinyl

Eddie Costa Memorial Concert (Colpix)

Clark Terry Quartet and Coleman Hawkins (with Sonny Clark) shared the bill

VG- (Browning on front and back plus writing on back)/ VG+

Eddie Costa – Art Farmer, In Their Own Sweet Way (Premier)

VG+/VG+

Eddie Lockjaw Davis, All of Me (Steeplechase)

With Kenny Drew

VG+ cover (ringwear on back)/VG+

Lou Donaldson with Red Garland Trio, Fine And Dandy – Live in Digital Recording (LOB Japan)

Only recording I've ever seen with LD and Red!

VG+ cover (some rub wear and corner dings)/NM vinyl

Kenny Drew, Home is Where The Soul Is (Xanadu)

VG+/VG+

Allen Eager/Phil Urso, Taking Sides (Spinnster)

Eddie Higgins and Pete Minger in group

NM/NM

SOLD FOR $12

Harry Edison, Patented by Edison (Roulette)

Tiny flaws on the back, otherwise NM cover

VG+ vinyl

Harry Edison, Sweet-enings (Roulette)

VG cover (upper right corner has a pretty large bend)

VG+ vinyl

Harry Edison and His West Coast Friends, Blues for Lovers (Atlas)

VG (one corner is a little messed, price sticker on back)/VG+

Harry Edison, The Inventive Mr. Edison (Pacific Jazz – Toshiba)

NM/NM

Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (and vice versa) (Verve)

VG+ (hole punch, small wrinkle in cover)/VG+

Art Farmer, The Summer Knows (Inner City)

VG+/NM

Art Farmer, To Duke With Love (Inner City)

VG (ring wear is pretty bad but seams are intact)/VG+

Super Jazz Trio with Art Farmer, Something Tasty (Jazz Line – RCA)

VG/VG+

Dizzy Gillespie, Giants (Perception)

With Bobby Hackett, Mary Lou Williams, Grady Tate and George Duvivier

VG (corner ding and price sticker)/ VG

Dexter Gordon & Alti Bjorn Trio, Cry Me a River (Steeplechase)

Dexter in Radioland Vol 1

VG+/VG+

Al Grey All-Stars at Travelers Loung Live (Travelers Productions)

With Jimmy Forrest, Pete Minger, Shirley Scott (on piano)

One of those albums I've seen plenty of times in south Florida but I am not sure how far and wide it went.

NM cover/VG vinyl (light scuffs but pretty extensive, plays well though)

Al Grey, Shades of Grey (Tangerine)

Pretty rare to my knowledge, Sweets, Lockjaw, Vi Redd, Grover Mitchell, Sonny Payne in the band

VG+ cover/VG to VG- vinyl, again plays better

Al Grey, Struttin and Shoutin (Columbia)

G cover because it used to be a library copy – has stickers on front and spine. Aside from that looks very good. VG vinyl

Johnny Griffin, Call it Whachawana (Galaxy)

VG+ (dinged corner)/VG+

Johnny Griffin – Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet, Tough Tenors (Jazzland)

VG (browning at the top, price sticker)/ VG

Johnny Griffith: Trio (Workshop Jazz)

Only a hole punch and some rubwear keep this from being a perfect cover

VG+ vinyl (there are several pressing bubbles in A5, otherwise very clean)

Gene Harris Trio + 1 (Concord - Groove Note – 45 RPM 180g Audiophile Pressing)

NM/NM (played once)

Jon Hendricks, A Good Git-Together (World Pacific)

Wes, Nat, Cannon, Pony

NM/VG+

Eddie Higgins, Once in a While (Spinnster)

Pete Minger/John Swan/Bill Prince – Recorded Live at Erny's

NM/VG

Buck Hill, Scope (Steeplechase)

VG+/VG+

Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis, Wings and Things (Verve)

This is the Hodges LP with Grant Green.

VG+ (only flaw some sticker residue on front)/VG+

Red Holloway, Hittin The Road Again (Jam)

VG+/VG+

Milt Jackson, Just The Way It Had To Be (ABC Impulse)

The sequel to "The Way It Is" release, and pretty darn rare

VG+/VG+ (Quadrophonic Promo)

Oliver Jackson Presents Le Quartet (Black & Blue)

Percy France, Cliff Smalls, Leonard Gaskin round out group

Only cover flaw is a hole punch/VG+ vinyl

Jazztet and John Lewis (Argo)

This is a 70s reissue (black and white cover)

Argo cover/Cadet vinyl (?)

VG+/VG+

Jazztet at Birdhouse (Argo)

NM/VG+

Budd Johnson and Phil Woods, The Old Dude and the Fundance Kid (Uptown)

NM/NM

Etta Jones Sings (Roulette)

With Junior Mance, Kenny Burrell, Frank Wess, Joe Newman, Milt Hinton

NM cover/VG+ side 1, VG or VG- Side 2

Philly Joe Jones, Dameronia – To Tadd with Love (Uptown)

For those still waiting on a CD reissue, here's your chance.

NM cover/VG vinyl (light scuffs, noticeable mark on A3 yet it plays great)

Philly Joe Jones, Dameronia – Look Stop Listen (Uptown)

VG+ (cornerwear)/VG+ (very clean vinyl)

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Quartet (Artists House)

Promo copy – Harold Danko and Rufus Reid in group

VG+/VG-

Clifford Jordan, Royal Ballads (Criss Cross)

NM/NM

Charles Kynard, Where It's At (Pacific Jazz)

Featuring Clifford Scott

Perfect front but some browning at the bottom of the back cover with a tiny bit of tearing/

VG vinyl (owner placed sticker on labels)

Billy Larkin & The Delegates, Blue Lights (Aura)

Featuring Clifford Scott

VG+ (corner turned up, some rub wear) /VG+

Perri Lee, The Funky Jazz of the Perrie Lee Trio – A Night at Count Basie's (Roulette)

Featuring Eddie Chamblee

VG cover ("Red" written on front and back)/VG

SOLD FOR $5

Hank Marr, Sounds from the Marr-Ket Place (King) (marked "sample")

This is the super rare LP that James 'Blood' Ulmer played on way back when.

VG+ (hole punch, upturned corner)/VG+ (has that dull look but plays well)

SOLD FOR $25

John Mehegan Quartet, Casual Affair (Freshsound reissue, Kenny Dorham and Chuck Wayne in group)

NM/NM

Howard McGhee and The Blazers, House Warmin' (Argo)

Original Argo, not 70s reissue (i.e., not a black and white cover)

VG+ (edge wear on front, some rub wear on back)

VG+ vinyl (might not look great but sounds excellent)

Howard McGhee & Teddy Edwards, Young at Heart (Storyville)

VG (cut corner, beginning seam split)/VG+

Blue Mitchell (Mainstream)

One of his few straightahead dates of the early 70s. Walter Bishop Jr and Jimmy Forrest.

VG+ cover (dinged lower left side corner)/VG+ (D.J. copy)

SOLD FOR $15

Hank Mobley, The Flip (Blue Note)

Cut corner is only flaw on cover/NM

SOLD FOR $20

Hank Mobley, Thinking of Home (Blue Note) LT Series

VG (hole punch, tear in white portion of cover)/VG+

SOLD FOR $10

David Newman, Heads Up (Atlantic)

One of his best "later" Atlantic recordings - with Lightsey and Steve Nelson

VG+/VG+

Joe Newman, Way Down Blues (Honey Dew)

VG+/VG+

Dave Pell's Prez Conference featuring Harry "Sweets Edison In Celebration of Lester Young (GNP Crescendo)

Hole punch, otherwise perfect/VG+

Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (Pablo)

No singing, just spirited blowing by Cleanhead, a great record

NM all around on this promo copy

Benny Powell, Coast to Coast (Trident)

L.A. Band: Herman Riley, Andy Simpkins, Gildo Mahones, Donald Bailey

NY Band: Clifford Jordan, Vernel Fournier, Mickey Tucker, Ray Drummons

VG cover (edge wear and some ringwear)/VG+

Sonny Red (Mainstream)

VG+/VG+

Thornel Schwartz with Bill Leslie, Soul Cookin' (Argo)

Not only is this a super rare Argo issue, but "Lawrence Olds" on organ is actually Larry Young!

NM cover (slight corner ding upper right)/VG (scuffs but plays great)

Horace Silver, You Gotta Take a Little Love (Blue Note)

VG (price sticker, slightly cut corner, inner sleeve on gatefold has splitting seam)/VG+ vinyl

Horace Silver, In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note)

VG (hole punch, dinged corner, price sticker)/VG (plays better than it looks)

Horace Silver, Silver 'N Brass (Blue Note)

VG+/VG+

Lonnie Smith, Turning Point (Blue Note)

VG/VG

Jim Snidero, On Time (East World)

With Brian Lynch and Kenny Kirkland

NM cover and vinyl

Sonny Stitt, My Mother's Eyes (Pacific Jazz)

With Charles Kynard

VG- cover (rippling across image, back cover very nice except for a little staining. All things considered, a very nice cover, I'm just being conservative)

VG+ (a few scuffs)

Sonny Stitt, Blues for Duke (Muse)

Haven't seen this one on CD

VG+/VG+

SOLD FOR $6

Sonny Stitt, Goin Down Slow (Prestige)

VG (ring wear, clipped corner)/VG

Billy Taylor, Impromptu (Mercury)

(Jim Hall, Walter Perkins, Bob Cranshaw fill out group)

NM front cover (edge wear lower right corner) – VG back cover (1/2 inch by 4 inch tear down to cardboard at bottom, does not effect text of liners, only "Printed in U.S.A." and Jack Tracy's title is torn or partially torn away) / VG+ vinyl (light paper scuffs)

Clark Terry Sextet Featuring Ben Webster, More (Cameo)

NM cover, as perfect as anything I've ever seen/VG+ vinyl

Sir Charles Thompson and the Swing Organ (Columbia (Six Eyes))

With Percy France

VG+ cover/VG- vinyl

Three Sounds, Soul Symphony (Blue Note)

VG+/VG+

SOLD FOR $10

Three Sounds with the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, Coldwater Flat (Blue Note)

VG+ (with Gene Harris autograph)/VG+

SOLD FOR $15

Mal Waldron, Sweet Love, Bitter (Movie soundtrack on Impulse)

Dave Burns, George Coleman, Charles Davis in group

VG+ cover (hole punch lower left corner)/VG+

Earl Washington, All-Star Jazz (Workshop Jazz)

Frank Wess, Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Ben Powell, Sonny Payne, Ed Jones)

Cut corner at lower left, otherwise a perfect cover/NM

Earl Washington, Reflections (Workshop Jazz)

NM/NM

Frank Wess/Johnny Coles, Two at the Top (Uptown)

VG+ (price sticker on front)/VG+

Randy Weston, Little Niles (Blue Note)

Wasn't there an incomplete CD reissue of this?

NM cover/VG+ one side/ VG on other - plays very nice overall

Edited November 7, 2008 by Dan Gould

[sidewinder]

PM on its way re: 'The Flip', 'Soul Symphony' and 'Coldwater Flat'.

[Dan Gould]

Here are two photos of Mobley's The Flip. I should add that its a clean white paper insert, not the original Liberty-era one.

Edit to say that the digital camera doesn't like me right now, so I may not have more pictures until I consult with my wife tonight.

Edited October 24, 2008 by Dan Gould

[Tom in RI]

PM sent on Hank Marr.

[Dan Gould]

Here are some more requested pics.

Three Sounds, Soul Symphony

[Dan Gould]

Three Sounds, Coldwater Flat

[Dan Gould]

In case anyone suspects that none of these are selling, I've updated the list to reflect what is no longer available and what the selling price was.

[samnat]

PM coming on:

Eager/Urso

Al Grey Shades of Grey

McGhee House Warmin'

Mobley Thinking of Home

Thornell Schwartz Soul Cookin'

Perry