Insane Sonny Clark LP Price

[MylesBAstor]

How 'bout this one folks. Not even in mint shape. He counted five, figure 25 but none of them was deep. Right.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sonny-Clark-Cool-Struttin-Blue-Note-1588-47-w-63rd-/120757406600?_trksid=e11010.m8&_trkparms=algo%3DMW%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1903882374632163468

 

[Bruce B]

Holy crap! $3,350.00!

 

[RogerD]

Amazing and there were 32 bids! I hope a tape shows up and sells for 9.95 ha ha!

 

[jazdoc]

From the invaluable online resource jazzcollector.com:

"Sonny Clark, Cool Struttin’, Blue Note 1588. This looks to be an original deep groove pressing. The seller lists it as M-, but he does mention some marks on the vinyl. The cover is listed as VG+. There are four days to go and the price is still less than $150. We’ve seen this record sell for more than $3,000 in the past, so we would expect it to go quite a bit higher, likely into the $1,000 bin."

Cool Struttin' is an amazing record (with a bad ass cover) but holy ^*&%! You could buy all 60+ of the MusicMatters Blue Note reissues which are pretty special sonically for the price of one original!

 

[garylkoh]

And the original Classic Records 24/96 DAD is still available for about $15.

When I started collecting records, I wasn't really into jazz and don't have any Blue Note deep groove pressings. Are they really that good to be worth $3k?

 

[jazdoc]

I own three original pressings and while the music is terrific, the sonics are nothing to write home about. (My experience could certainly be skewed by small sample size.) IMO, Contemporary Records are uniformly better sounding but don't have the performance cache. I'm a big fan of The MusicMatters and Analogue Productions 45 rpm Blue Note reissues and at $50 a pop I can show my wife how much money I'm saving

 

[jadis]

I'm just glad that this is not my genre. That's 2 semesters worth of college education over here for 1 mono old record 5-scratches record. But it's a collector's item, so...

 

[naturephoto1]

That is a wacky and insane price. I hope the buyer enjoys it and finds that it was worth the cost. I know that I wouldn't.

Rich

 

[Jay_S]

It's likely that the buyer already has this well known recording. I doubt if he bought this to actually use.

 

[garylkoh]

I own three original pressings and while the music is terrific, the sonics are nothing to write home about. (My experience could certainly be skewed by small sample size.) IMO, Contemporary Records are uniformly better sounding but don't have the performance cache. I'm a big fan of The MusicMatters and Analogue Productions 45 rpm Blue Note reissues and at $50 a pop I can show my wife how much money I'm saving

Thanks, jazzdoc. If the sonics aren't much better than the reissues, then to me there's no point. The 24/96 Classics DAD is awesome though. Far, far better than the standard Redbook CD (for us non-tape guys).

 

[jazdoc]

There's certainly a high likelihood this ended up with a collector in the Far East...

BTW, here's a sealed MusicMatters copy of Cool Struttin' for sale on Audigon: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?softjazs&1317840930

 

[MylesBAstor]

There's certainly a high likelihood this ended up with a collector in the Far East...

BTW, here's a sealed MusicMatters copy of Cool Struttin' for sale on Audigon: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?softjazs&1317840930

I totally agree.

 

[mep]

There's certainly a high likelihood this ended up with a collector in the Far East...

BTW, here's a sealed MusicMatters copy of Cool Struttin' for sale on Audigon: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?softjazs&1317840930

I just snagged it. Thanks for the link.

 

[jazdoc]

You are welcome and I hope you like it. It's one of my favorites. Sonny Clark was a terrific musician but died young chasing his demons.

 

[mep]

You are welcome and I hope you like it. It's one of my favorites. Sonny Clark was a terrific musician but died young chasing his demons.

If people are willing to pay $3K for a used LP, there has to be something to it!

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

I'm listening to it right now on Spotify. Free. Sounds pretty good.

Tim

 

[jazdoc]

Just got the new MusicMatters release of Sonny Clark's "Sonny's Crib", another terrific release well worth the money.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Just got the new MusicMatters release of Sonny Clark's "Sonny's Crib", another terrific release well worth the money.

Expect mine's at the mailbox and will get it today. MM and AP, not to mention Steve and Kevin, have done an awesome job with the remasterings and are a real credit to the genius of RVG! Oh, to hear those master tapes I expect they would be akin to seeing God

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

I'm listening to some more of his work on Spotify now. This is great stuff I hadn't run across. Thanks for bringing it up.

Tim

 

[jazdoc]

Tim-

You also should check out Clark's "Leapin' and Lopin".

Myles -
Couldn't agree with you more regarding the whole MusicMatters team -- absolutely first class. Their contact person, Lori, is also exceptional.