Rare Jazz Vinyl Records Found in a Basement! 

Props to the 80-year old collector - for his excellent taste, for keeping his vinyl in great condition, and for passing these wonderful records on "so that others can enjoy them"!!!

I bet that man was amazing to talk to. You should consider interviewing him for the channel.

Wow, Helen Merrill! Wonderful score, love that recording. Thank you for sharing.

11:18 Because of your video....I picked up a copy of that Helen Merrill LP last night.. Saw it sitting in the bin at my local shop as I was checking out. It's a recent repress, but a pristine used copy for $9.99. It sounds fantastic!

HELEN IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! JUST REALLY BEAUTIFUL JAZZ.

Really enjoyed seeing your finds -- Looking forward to visiting your shop! Keep the vinyl love flowing 🙂✌️

Dillon looks like this trip took a lot out of him. Keep grinding man.

Another excellent offering for your customers! You always do great

Oh my goodness Dillon! I hope the vinyl collectors in your hometown appreciate you. That Yusef Lateef album would be incredible. 🤩 Amazing jazz records.

That Helen merrill is utterly incredible..beautiful beautiful beautiful!

Dillon is the best records show on RU-vid!! Go Noble!!

This vid made my day man, thanks a lot.

Beautiful collection..you were fortunate to cross paths with this gentleman. Best to you.

That's insane! wondeerful enjoyable video. Thanks.

It's awesome that finds like that still come up.

Tunes From the Man Cave will be pullin' a second mortgage!

Damn it man! When you posted that picture of the promo of The Beach Boys I was hoping it was going in the shop! I totally don’t blame you for keeping it!

LOVE LOVE LOVE when the vid opens with Mandrill on!!!! YES! One of my favorite bands and records

Great fine wish I was there for Saturday Love Jazz!! As always great record store

I used to be a consultant for Impulse Records. "The House that trane Built"

Yeehaw. That basement is the stuff dreams are made of. Wow absolutely killer finds and honey hole for jazz. Congrats on the finds Dylan.

Nice scores dude! 🎶🎺🎷

My dad had that Australian Jazz Quartet album in the 60’s. I just found a copy recently. Not great, but had to grab it for old times sake. Just an amazing collection you got there. Memphis Slim !!! Nina Simone etc. Can’t imagine what you left behind.

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL haul. I would have creamed my jeans. hahahahah. What was his listening rig like?

Unreal, you got gold big guy. I had to sub. Jazz on, Jazz hard.

Gonna have to make it up to your shop ! Big fan !! Always rooting for you and your shop brother !

Your jaw must have dropped when you came across this jazz haul . I had messeged you at the shop about my coming in a couple of weeks . Im sure the couple I want will already be long gone .

We have shops locally here but none of them are run by anybody as passionate about records as you. I would love buying records from your shop sometime. Maybe I can visit my friend in Fort Mill sometime and come visit!

Would love a video devoted to James Brown and other funk/soul artists!

Thanks. Great video. This is the kind of digs I look for ... good for you! You’re not gonna have enough room on your Holy Moley wall for all that goodness!!!

Always have a plan B! Great advice! I'd imagine you'll have no issue selling this batch. Wish I were coming there this weekend. But I'll be there in a couple weeks! I'll try to hit you up before hand to know when you'll be in the shop.

Great stuff Dylan

I'm curious how that original Chet Baker sings holds up to the Tone Poet from last year

I had a similar experience years ago, but bad: Riversides, Impulses, Blue Notes, but dirt, no sleeves, mildewed, etc. And they were hurt that I did not offer them a ton on money.

Like the videos, can you do a video of your full collection that will be nice 👌

Sitting here salivating! Some serious tackle there but getting there from London by Saturday might be a bit of a stretch.

You got some great jazz records man at least there was a silver lining to the trip.

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I think it's hard to find 10" LPs in top shape because they weren't issued with inner sleeves. So if a 10" was played more than a couple of times it was probably scratched up just going in and out of the cardboard jacket.

Simply stunning stuff! - Russ

THESE RECORDS ARE BANGER'S BABY....WHAT A WAX HAUL!!!!!!!!!!!

so nice as usually!! like other commentator said, keep the vinyl love flowing!

On the "Miles Ahead" LP (at 9:24), what did you see that let you know right away that it was 1st press? (Maybe you could do a video on this topic: the different factors that go into determining if a record is 1st press. For example, we see SEALED records for sale online that say "First Press", but how would they know that without seeing the Matrix Numbers? Maybe also include in that video, your own insights on Grading the vinyl.....and how grading for 78s should differ.)

I'M LOOKING FOR ANYTHING OE "LOREZ"....THAT ONE ON PRESTIGE IS DOPE!!!!!!!!

you need to keep in touch with that man!! I know an old couple that have at least 20,000+ records but they don't want people coming to their place. I bought a few things from them when they had a spot at a nearby flea market. Unfortunately, Covid pushed them away and they don't sell there any more. I hope to run into them soon because, to be honest, they're both pretty old and who knows what's going to happen to their records if someone doesn't step in.

Killer score Dillon!

I wish I could find some 80 year old man jazz like that in the Illinois mountains

I GOT TO HEAR SOME OF THESE RECORDS YEARS AGO FROM BLOGSPOTS FOR RARE JAZZ AND ANY OTHER TYPES OF JAZZ.....NOW I'VE GOTTEN INTO THE ACTUAL WAX END OF IT.

I found an original Moanin jacket mono and I put a recent reissue inside - it’s a Frankenstein! I’m ok with it as I’ve given up finding an original in the wild

Wow, Helen Merrill. Hard work leads to great finds. Of course Helen is the mother of Alan Merrill, who co-wrote "I Love Rock and Roll".

Brought home some 🔥 despite having your time wasted with the other part of your trip. Sweet.

I bought a crate of records when I was a kid back in the 1990s at a yard sale for a dollar. It had some great stuff in there, The Beatles, Beach Boys, ELO, Led Zeppelin, The Who, maybe even some rare stuff worth money that I wasn't aware of at the time. Sadly though they got left behind when I moved a few years ago and my 2 brothers ransacked my collection and probably threw away more hidden gems than they kept. If I only had a time machine....

Dude I was going to that library giveaway too but it sounded like it was a bunch of garbage mostly. It was weaverville or somewhere around there?

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good picks

I got that chet Baker sings and chet Baker in Europe at goodwill about 15 years ago for 75 cents each

That Herbie Mann/Bobby Jaspar album actually slaps hard.

Good shot. I have many of the albums you had shown. Hey, I dig authentic Indigenous music. I have stuff from Indian pow-wow's, to the Incas, to Flamenco, to Australian Aborigines, to Japanese Drumming to Brazilian Tango. And including the Appalachian traditional music. Thank Jesus for the Smithsonian.. You get the idea.

That Yusef album is awesome

Totally off topic...sorry. Dillon, do you know if there's be a way to tell Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream black vinyl pressings apart?

Man i remember seeing those blondie posters on one video member those???

lucky one 😊😊

What happened to someone’s WORD as being good anymore? Sorry the library trip was a bust. Now your backup plan gives me faith. Love those great Blue Note albums!

After the recent doubling and tripling of prices, some of the values given in those old Goldmine books might be pretty accurate all of a sudden. I'd be a little surprised if you can get a local customer who can pay the market price for the Helen Merrill. Kulu Se Mama is probably the most difficult Coltrane record - definitely not for everyone. My copy has a lot of surface noise.

Love James Brown!

Hey man. What’s the song that’s playing in the background? Sounds killer.

it happens to musicians all the time... most of the time I still perform and got paid, but it's always a PUSH PULL for Justice. .... one other thing.... did you see the area where the records were? probably they were there and who ever told you they weren't probably got paid to mislead you if they just TALKED and didn't show you the area where the records were..... I'm an old Scrap Dealer and so it goes.

There can be big money in Jazz records. I'm no expert on any of this, but i know an old jazz musician who sold his collection for tens of thousands of dollars. Of course there were thousands of records in his collection, going back to the 1940's. Just records he'd accumulated in his long career. A lot of Stan Kenton era stuff, early LP's from the 50's, a bunch of 78's, records up till the 1970's. He told me that jazz is really big with Japanese and South American collectors, and the guy he sold his collection to was from Brazil. He just bought the whole lot in one purchase, gave the jazz musician the price he asked without quibbling, and had them all shipped down to Brazil.

do you have andy bey?

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Do you regularly carry a decent amount of Appalachian folk in your shop?

What is the best record brush?

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR FEMALE JAZZ SINGER RECORDS.

I just recently got into Bud Powell. I dismissed him for a long time. Vinyl albums aren't always the best way to encounter James Brown. His albums typically featured the current single, b-side and a bunch of tracks from before. In the Jungle Groove and Motherlode are great albums to get and are compilations of his funk side. The cd era really dig JB justice. I'm starting an online compact disc focused shop on Discogs. There was a collector getting out of cds and was selling his Mosaic box sets on Ebay. He had 14 and listed them as a lot with a starting bid of $1,300. I offered 1,000 which is more than what any physical shop would offer as they would sell around $1,400. He sells the better titles off and then asks if I want the remainder of which many were only label specific and focused on earlier 40's jazz. I didn't respond but that's how it goes. I also had someone else state that they had "longboxes" and decided not to part with the discs.

Sorry you got treated like crap. I know that feeling too well. Glad the plan B worked out! You don't see jazz in great shape that often anymore. Helen is awesome!

These leads............Where and how??! hahah

Just think about it the library's records were probably scratched up from years of being lent out to the people who don't take care of them so you're probably lucky you didn't get them ✌️. Sorry you wasted all that time driving that really sucks man ☹️

Score!!!

If I see a video next week from Tunes From The Man Cave and he is ripping the shrink off that Lee Morgan... I'm gonna be mad :-)

Always putting me on to new music! Saving a lot of these jazz records in my Apple Music 🙂

You might.. keep that Lee Morgan 🤭

HOW MUCH DID U CATCH THIS HAUL FOR????????

First I hope you had a chance to tell anyone involved with the initial records that they were pecker heads.... Second... Has anyone checked on tunesfromamancave after he saw the first 15 mins of this video? Third... Great records Dillon... Will likely come see you Saturday !!

With gas prices the way they are and you wasting three hours you had a right to be upset but think of it this way. If the library had those records you might not have had the time to visit your plan B. It always works out especially if you stay positive and keep the grind going.

You've not held me hostage but I think that I've got Stockholm syndrome, I was devastated for your wasted journey but ecstatic for your jazz haul. It's my own fault for watching :)

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That's just damn rude.

U dont care about money! U sell your finds cheap like u buy them

I enjoy your videos, but is really SUX that you show us this stuff that we can't buy.