Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Blue Note 4003 Zip
The most thrilling thing about being a collector, whatever collector really, is finding a very rare and valuable item for a fraction of its value. Here'due south one of those stories:
As I was browsing through the jazz section at my local record store, I ran across this pictured re-create of the cocky titled Bluish Annotation LP Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, as well known as Moanin'.
It'southward nicknamed this due to pianist Bobby Timmons, and his composition of the same name.
The price tag that was affixed to the plastic cover sleeve was $29.99. I thought, probably a Liberty Records pressing? And so I took the vinyl out from the sleeve to inspect, I glanced at the characterization, it read 47 west 63rd NYC.
I can come across the deep groove in the labels, information technology'due south a mono copy. I audit the Blueish Note logo, no trademark R under the E in Blue Notation, and the RVG and the Plastylite cursive P are in the dead wax run off surface area.
Bluish Note 4003 Available Now.
Did I re-sell it?
The vinyl status is stupendous, non mint, but a strong VG+ with light marks and scuffs. The vinyl nevertheless has quite a bit of luster and the labels have very lite spindle marks, This re-create probably would easily bring $300-$500, maybe more.
The cover is nifty either, no splits, strong intact spine, but certainly no better than the very expert (VG) course, but over all a nice playable copy.
Update:
I somewhen sold this to an overseas buyer for $400.00. In hindsight, I probably let it go a little also cheaply, equally he nabbed it up within a few days of the list being posted. Because how well it played, I am sure he was more than happy with information technology.
Even with it existence a mid level status record, I bet the one who bought it from me will turn it around and make a nice little turn a profit, if they oasis't already.
So it goes...
Finding a $500 tape for $30 is what it'south all about
To find this record in this type of playing shape for 30 dollars is just incredible to me, every Blue Notation collector strives to find an original first press re-create of classics similar this.
Trying to get the best possible sound, and as close to the original source as possible is the primal.
Hearing a record like this for a truthful Jazz nut, tin be almost a religious experience, it was for me.
Information technology's not really the sound quality so much, but rather the feel of the vinyl and jacket menu board, you simply don't go that from a CD or download.
The music quality of original vinyl might be tad oversold, especially when I take a new 45 rpm double LP that to my ear sound only as proficient. But If I had the greenbacks, I would very much dig deep into the original vinyl.
I couldn't help only wonder why this usually high priced shop would have $30 on this record?
My but guess is, they tend to specialize in rock music and new independent vinyl bug, and information technology just slipped through the cracks. Possibly side by side time I volition run into an original Hank Mobley Soul Station LP. You never know what might exist in those crates?
What are Blueish Note 4003 and others selling for at the moment?
A copy of Moanin' back in November 2012 sold for $1,125 on eBay reportedly in Mint Minus condition, the cover was much cleaner too than my pictured observe. My find is definitely not a meridian copy, merely still a solid play copy.
My copy was not close to mint, but it was VG+ and played with very light surface dissonance and sounded so present and total of life.
I have a collection of well over 300 Blue Notes, but only xxx are original start pressings, and this was by far the best condition vinyl of those.
Well-nigh are in the VG- to VG condition. You must remember yous are dealing with prices that well-nigh can barely dream of, with originals fetching between $2,000 and $v,000 all the time on eBay. I've been fortunate to notice an original offset press of Horace Silverish's Horace-Scope in VG condition, played very well, I paid a lousy dollar for that at a austerity shop.
I also constitute a Freddie Redd Connexion with Jackie McLean start printing for 2 dollars at a yard sale, that record had a few deep marks and heavy scuffs, but also played surprisingly well. The betoken is, you tin get lucky if you dig.
Benny Golson: The Star of 4003
"Along Came Betty", "Are You Real", & "Blues March" were tenor saxophonist Benny Golson'southward compositions, and he is the real star on this Jazz Messengers classic.
Golson was responsible for 4 of the 6 compositions, with "Are You Existent" "Along Came Betty", and "Dejection March", all becoming standards.
Benny likewise provides an extremely tasty tenor sax solo on the Bobby Timmons track Moanin'. Golson is 1 of the unsung heroes of jazz, even with his recent notoriety.
His body of work speaks for its self, the number of standards and his arranging skills have influenced countless jazz musicians.
Benny has composed televisions scores for shows like M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible, he besides lead the Jazztet from 1959 to 1962, and then once again in the fourscore'southward.
It would exist hard to contend that Moanin' isn't the greatest Jazz Messengers album, perhaps A Night in Tunisia or Gratuitous For All come shut? When you run downward the listing, at that place are a lot of great albums to choose from.
*Golson Photograph CREDIT: Past Brianmcmillen (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/past-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Eatables*
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