Kanas City Frank Melrose Broadway 1355 Paramount Wailing Blues Jazz 78 V++
$
200
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Description
ARTIST: Harry's Reckless Five (Kansas City Frank and His Footwarmers)
LABEL: Broadway 1355
TITLES: St. James Infirmary Blues / Wailing Blues
CONDITION: V++, really nice copy with only very light surface scratches and some label scratches as pictured.
DESCRIPTION: 78 Quarterly estimated fewer than ten copies of this exist. Herb Morand c / Joe Wiggins as / Frank Melrose p / ?Charles Melrose pac / Tommy Taylor d-sw. Chicago, c. November 1929. All things considered, a top copy of this fine Chicago rarity (the E copy that sold for $600+ in 2017 probably doesn't play as well as this one being that it had a swish on one side!)
For the foreseeable future, I will be listing great items from my own personal collection of 1920s classic jazz.
78 GRADING: We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted, eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).
E+
Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear. N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.
E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black.
E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.
V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.
V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.
V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.
P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.
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