Sold Date:
March 15, 2015
Start Date:
March 8, 2015
Final Price:
$27.51
(USD)
Bid Count:
13
Seller Feedback:
67
Buyer Feedback:
72
For your consideration this auction is for: a Lot of 19 Jazztone record releases in excellent condition from the 50's included are LP's titled and about Stan Getz, Dixieland free for all, Sammy Price, Timeless Jazz, Mary Lou Williams, Barrelhouse and Blues, Pioneers of boogie Woogie, Combo Jazz, Modern moods, Kings of the keyboard and more...Artist are an all star cast too many to list. Questions are welcome Good Luck I welcome wishlist of lp's I have 12,000 titles to get through!!!! I will combine auctions for shipping, I will ship local (US) as well as overseas and charge only actual shipping to your door not a penny more. I will be listing larger lots by Genre soon. Jazztone was a mail-order Jazz music label, in the fifties and, I think, early sixties, which was an off-shoot of a classical music mail-order series.
They first came out with re-releases of existing material, in compilations, on 10" LP's. There were not that many 10" , before they moved to the just developed 12".
The good thing about them was that they were the original artists and that each record had, at least, extensive and sometimes even a booklet which was included.
They were very inexpensive, even for the times at around $2.00 or so, when other mainstream labels were running at about $5.00.
They are available on-line, if you just search for "jazztone" records. My source has been used vinyl shops and they will charge anywhere from $10.00-$50.00. Considering that some of them are fifty, or more years old, most are in amazingly good condition. They are mono, but the sound is amazing.
This series was really limited, particularly the 10", but they were of the top names, which we, as jazz aficianados, try like crazy to find.
Now that many of the artists' work has been re-released on CD, I suspect that, like me, the historical aspect of having the Jazztones outweighs the ability to obtain the actual music. However, that doesn't stop me from snappin' them up at garage sales, and other places where people get of older relatives' old stuff.