Coltrane on Vintage Vinyl

[Kishtu]

Coltrane, "Like Someone In Love" -1967
Coltrane, "Soultrane" - 1968
Coltrane, "Giant Steps" - 1960
Coltrane Quartet, "Ballads" - 1962, back card cover has had a bit of a hard life!
Coltrane, "Coltrane" - at a huge cost of 32'!! - 1962 at a guess
Coltrane, "A Love Supreme" - 1964
"Chambers' Music" - John Coltrane Quartet feat. Paul Chambers, undated
Coltrane Live in Paris 1965
Coltrane, "Coltrane Jazz" undated.

All from the collection of a jazz musician, so certainly have been listened to, on the other hand have been treated with the respect that one would expect one musician to have for the work of another (if that makes sense...)

Absolutely no idea what they're worth, and will weigh a ton to post from UK, but if anyone would be interested in any of 'em please PM me!

 

[Kishtu]

Am bumping this one....

I know there was a bit of interest around at the time!

Would love them to go to a good home, and dad would be horrified to think that we were hanging out for a good price (which we're not!) They deserve to be played and listened to, not to sit in the living room of a musical philistine who thinks it all sounds like the Pink Panther theme....

 

[LocktownDog]

I'd love to have them, but postage for the box to get here would be a bit out of my financial range right now.

I keep trying to get my sax-playing son to listen to more Coltrane. He just doesn't understand.

Richard

 

[Kishtu]

Locktown - if you want me to look into how to post them at a sensible price (whatever the opposite of air mail is...) I will do. Or in blocks of, I dunno, four at a time or something, that wouldn't be too hefty.

Or indeed anyone else who was worried about the cost of postage from the UK!

 

[LocktownDog]

Sorry. International mailing costs have gone up far too much in the past few months. And I wouldn't even consider having them sent by boat. I can't imagine the damage they would take. Coltrane deserves so much better.

Have you tried taking them to a vintage vinyl or jazz shop? They may just jump at the chance to buy them from you. And you'd be guaranteed someone worthy would end up buying them.

Richard

 

[onlyoneintown]

Just Wondering

how much would shipping cost?

 

[Kishtu]

No idea Onlyone - I just tried weighing what I thought was something similar in size on our works post machine thing, and I think it would come out at about £20 to send air mail and about £10 surface. That is a guesstimate, cos I remember them weighing a ton, but I could certainly split them....

I know I'm starting to sound desperate but we don't have any vintage vinyl shops in the part of the country where I live, never mind jazz!

 

[Salv]

Kishtu - do you have any other albums for sale? I'd be interested in these late 50s and 60s Blue Note albums if your dad has them:

• Lou Donaldson - Calling All Cats
• Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
• Donald Byrd - A New Perspective
• Donald Byrd - Live At The Half Note
• Reuben Wilson - Love Bug
• Stanley Turrentine - Rough And Tumble
• Grant Green - Matador
• Hank Mobley - Soul Station

And - on Prestige - More Gravy by Willis Jackson.

Ta very much.

 

[Kishtu]

I don't think he has those particular ones, Salv - most of his collection is Miles Davis and Coltrane (from memory... isn't that enough for any man?!)

I will ask him later though, he has all kinds of treasures stashed away. The sad part is that I haven't got any of his sessions, as apparently back in the 50s and 60s it was not the done thing for young gigging musicians to play under their own names. Couldn't even tell you if any of his session work with John Mayall's Blues Breakers (met Eric Clapton and reckoned him nowt a pound back then...) is recorded for posterity - and of course 40 years down the line he couldn't tell me either!

 

[Salv]

I don't think he has those particular ones, Salv - most of his collection is Miles Davis and Coltrane (from memory... isn't that enough for any man?!)

Is there such a thing as enough music in a collection?

I will ask him later though, he has all kinds of treasures stashed away. The sad part is that I haven't got any of his sessions, as apparently back in the 50s and 60s it was not the done thing for young gigging musicians to play under their own names. Couldn't even tell you if any of his session work with John Mayall's Blues Breakers (met Eric Clapton and reckoned him nowt a pound back then...) is recorded for posterity - and of course 40 years down the line he couldn't tell me either!

Blimey, he seems to have been a bit of a star! What's his name? I'm not really a jazz aficionado so in all probability I won't have heard of him, but I love music trivia.

 

[Kishtu]

Well, that's the problem Salv... he never worked under his own name!
(The words "tax dodge" spring to mind...)

And I'm not sure whether session musicians were credited then. Believe me, I've tried, because I'd have loved to try and get a "This Is Your Life" style book for him and get in touch with the people he played with, maybe not the John Mayalls of this world but some of the folks from the Northern scene. I even tried putting a post up on some of the jazz websites asking if anyone had any memorabilia from anything like the Zurich Jazz Festival he played at (Zurich's own archives don't date back that far...) but zip.

Very vexing.

 

[Salv]

Ah, OK, well good luck with the search. It may be worth dropping a PM to nightandthecity who is something of a jazz buff so he may be familiar with one of your dads aliases.