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Goldmine's Price Guide to Collectible Jazz Albums, 1949-1969

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Umphred did great job with thi the 2nd (1st??) edition.All of the books in Goldmine seres ae ridiculous in terms of price (waaaaay low as ebay as collectors will note) but latter large blue book gives 80's 90's Records and who cares how much he thing a Crisscross LP is worth?You can look all that up at www.allmuisc.com.What makes this such a gem is that it gives a great intro section on different types of identifying characteristics for many lables like Prestige,Contemporary,Pacific etc telling which ones should have a deep groove what different colors mean and from what era they are.Take Prestige?Id that Coltrane "Lush Life" a first even though it's Deep Groove but not a W.50th Street but e Bergen N.J press?Yes it is.Latter pressings would be Blue and then Green for Prestige.How this invaluable info was left out of newer books is crazy since prices just give you a relative rarity (and sometime it's off.If anybody think my 10" MJQ is worth $600 I'll sell at half that price).But again prices are not what it's about.It's full catalogue info and ID that again is missing from latter worthless Goldmine Jazz books is what it's about hear.This an latest All Music Guide To Jazz is all you need to lead to blissful fiscal ruin.
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Chazz

I have used Umphred's Price Guide for years to research original jazz records and estimate their value. Unfortunately, many of the albums mentioned are very rare and their price evaluations are extremely low as you can see when consulting Amazon.com, but this gives the collector of albums that were available on 78, l0", and 12" albums--many of which have never made it to CD an idea of what was recorded at one time. I had hoped that a 3rd or 4th edition had been published, but no luck. This one, therefore, is essential!

Just what I was looking for. Book was in excellent condition and service was prompt. I have a fairly large collection of jazz recordings that I may consider selling in the future. This book gives me the info I need to price them.

Very good book. Easy to use and it has a lot of research for Jazz Collectors. Highly recommend.