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

by Neal Umphred

Book Overview

Accurate price guide for instrumental and vocal jazz albums available. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873412885
• ISBN13: 9780873412889
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 6.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Best Goldmine Jazz book -latter ones suck

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. Cheers Chazz

Jazz Collectors Review

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