Timed Vinyl Records Auction Iconic Rock Legends

Lot: 1 - Dead Kennedys – Frankenchrist, 1985, first pressing, Alternative Tentacles – VIRUS 45, Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): A VIRUS 45 A1 "The Full Rich Flavor of Stark Reality" L-22265, Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): A

Dead Kennedys – Frankenchrist, 1985, first pressing, Alternative Tentacles – VIRUS 45, Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): A VIRUS 45 A1 "The Full Rich Flavor of Stark Reality" L-22265, Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): A VIRUS 45 B1 "To cope is to cop out" L-22265-X, dark chocolate red AT label, - "45" on AT label in a small font, rounded upper corners on inner sleeve, no "Made in Canada" on inner sleeve, no poster This is a first pressing of the Dead Kennedys' album "Frankenchrist" released in 1985 by Alternative Tentacles. The album features a dark chocolate red AT label and specific matrix runout inscriptions: A VIRUS 45 A1 'The Full Rich Flavor of Stark Reality' L-22265 and A VIRUS 45 B1 'To cope is to cop out' L-22265-X. The cover art is notable and does not include the controversial poster that was originally part of some releases.

Lot: 2 - Link Wray - Link Wray, 1971, Polydor Records 24-4064, die-cut gatefold jacket, side A runout stamped “STERLING”, etched PLOP 80197-1C, 15895, side B runout stamped “STERLING”, etched PLOP 80198-2C-REPL., 15895-X

Link Wray - Link Wray, 1971, Polydor Records 24-4064, die-cut gatefold jacket, side A runout stamped "STERLING", etched PLOP 80197-1C, 15895, side B runout stamped "STERLING", etched PLOP 80198-2C-REPL., 15895-X This is a 1971 vinyl record by Link Wray, released by Polydor Records with catalog number 24-4064. It features a die-cut gatefold jacket with side A runout stamped 'STERLING' and etched 'PLOP 80197-1C, 15895'. Side B runout is stamped 'STERLING' and etched 'PLOP 80198-2C-REPL., 15895-X'. The cover art features a profile image of Link Wray.

Lot: 3 - The Rolling Stones - Bedspring Symphony (A Box Lunch And Meat Whistle Live In Concert), 1974, The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label – TAKRL 1941, rare bootleg, side A runout etched TAKRL 1941-A, side B runout etched TAKRL 1

The Rolling Stones - Bedspring Symphony (A Box Lunch And Meat Whistle Live In Concert), 1974, The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label – TAKRL 1941, rare bootleg, side A runout etched TAKRL 1941-A, side B runout etched TAKRL 1941-B This is a rare bootleg vinyl record of The Rolling Stones titled 'Bedspring Symphony (A Box Lunch And Meat Whistle Live In Concert)' released in 1974 by The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label (TAKRL 1941). The record features live performances and is etched with TAKRL 1941-A on side A and TAKRL 1941-B on side B.

Lot: 4 - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973, 1978 limited edition 2 LP set on yellow vinyl, trifold picture sleeve, DJM Records, DJE 29001, all runouts etched “STRAWBERRY” and “YELLOW-LIMITED-EDITION”, side A runout etch

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973, 1978 limited edition 2 LP set on yellow vinyl, trifold picture sleeve, DJM Records, DJE 29001, all runouts etched "STRAWBERRY" and "YELLOW-LIMITED-EDITION", side A runout etched DJE-29001-A3, side B runout etched DJE-29001-B3, side C runout etched DJE-29001-C3, side D runout etched DJE-29001-D3 This is a limited edition 2 LP set of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" from 1973, reissued in 1978 on yellow vinyl. It features a trifold picture sleeve and is produced by DJM Records with catalog number DJE 29001. The runouts are etched with 'STRAWBERRY' and 'YELLOW-LIMITED-EDITION'.

Lot: 5 - Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964, Columbia Records (MONO – CL 2105), rare promotional copy, back stamped “DEMONSTRATION, NOT FOR SALE”, with paper insert, textured cardboard jacket, side A runoff stamped X

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964, Columbia Records (MONO – CL 2105), rare promotional copy, back stamped "DEMONSTRATION, NOT FOR SALE", with paper insert, textured cardboard jacket, side A runoff stamped XLP-75526–1F, side B stamped XLP-75527-1G, two-eye Columbia logo in black on white center label, side B label reads "Radio station copy- not for sale", "Guaranteed high fidelity" printed on bottom right corner of jacket cover, small "3" printed in bottom right corner of back cover, likely first pressing This is a rare promotional copy of Bob Dylan's 1964 album "The Times They Are A-Changin'" released by Columbia Records. It features a textured cardboard jacket and a paper insert. The back is stamped with 'DEMONSTRATION, NOT FOR SALE' and the side B label reads 'Radio station copy- not for sale'. The record has the two-eye Columbia logo in black on a white center label, with the side A runoff stamped XLP-75526–1F and side B stamped XLP-75527-1G. The jacket cover has 'Guaranteed high fidelity' printed on the bottom right corner and a small '3' printed in the bottom right corner of the back cover, indicating it is likely a first pressing.

Lot: 6 - 3 Jimi Hendrix Experience LPs, iconic, controversial "nude cover" version of Electric Ladyland, double LP, Jimi Hendrix - The Interview picture disc featuring an interview conducted by Meatball Fulton in 1968, released b

3 Jimi Hendrix Experience LPs, iconic, controversial "nude cover" version of Electric Ladyland, double LP, Jimi Hendrix - The Interview picture disc featuring an interview conducted by Meatball Fulton in 1968, released by Rhino Records in 1982, Are You Experienced stereo LP This collectible set includes three LPs featuring Jimi Hendrix: the iconic and controversial 'nude cover' version of 'Electric Ladyland', a double LP; 'Jimi Hendrix - The Interview', a picture disc featuring an interview conducted by Meatball Fulton in 1968 and released by Rhino Records in 1982; and the 'Are You Experienced' stereo LP. The 'Electric Ladyland' cover is notable for its controversial artwork, which has become a significant part of music history.

Lot: 7 - Sealed 4LP vinyl box set of The Beatles' White Album 50th Anniversary Edition, featuring 180g heavyweight vinyl and the Esher Demos, 2018, small portion of seal torn

Sealed 4LP vinyl box set of The Beatles' White Album 50th Anniversary Edition, featuring 180g heavyweight vinyl and the Esher Demos, 2018, small portion of seal torn This is a sealed 4LP vinyl box set of The Beatles' White Album 50th Anniversary Edition, released in 2018. It features 180g heavyweight vinyl and includes the Esher Demos. The set is partially sealed with a small portion of the seal torn.

Lot: 8 - Sealed The Band's "Stage Fright" 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set, typically featuring a 180g vinyl LP, a 7” single, 2 CDs, a Blu-ray Disc and more, newly remixed and remastered, unreleased original sequence

Sealed The Band's "Stage Fright" 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set, typically featuring a 180g vinyl LP, a 7" single, 2 CDs, a Blu-ray Disc and more, newly remixed and remastered, unreleased original sequence by Robbie Robertson, small portion of seal missing This is a sealed 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition box set of The Band's "Stage Fright". It typically includes a 180g vinyl LP, a 7" single, 2 CDs, a Blu-ray Disc, and more. The set is newly remixed and remastered, featuring an unreleased original sequence by Robbie Robertson. The packaging is mostly intact with a small portion of the seal missing.

Lot: 9 - Sealed reissue of The Beatles White Album, year unknown, 1970’s? seal partially compromised, SWBO101, stereo

Sealed reissue of The Beatles White Album, year unknown, 1970's? seal partially compromised, SWBO101, stereo This is a sealed reissue of The Beatles' 'White Album', possibly from the 1970s. The album is in stereo format with the catalog number SWBO101. The seal is partially compromised, but the overall condition appears to be good.

Lot: 10 - Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 compilation box set featuring artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, 8 CDs, 203 Selections, includes paperback booklet, 1991

Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974 compilation box set featuring artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, 8 CDs, 203 Selections, includes paperback booklet, 1991 The 'Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974' is a comprehensive compilation box set featuring legendary artists such as Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. This set includes 8 CDs with a total of 203 selections, capturing the essence of rhythm and blues music over nearly three decades. The collection is accompanied by a paperback booklet providing additional context and information about the tracks and artists.

Lot: 11 - Buddy Holly - The Complete Buddy Holly, 6-Record Set, 1979, MCA Records 6-80’000, 64 page souvenir scrapbook

Buddy Holly - The Complete Buddy Holly, 6-Record Set, 1979, MCA Records 6-80'000, 64 page souvenir scrapbook This is a 6-record set titled 'The Complete Buddy Holly', released in 1979 by MCA Records (catalog number MCA 6-80,000). It includes a 64-page souvenir scrapbook and features a comprehensive collection of Buddy Holly's music along with pictorial documentation of his life and career.

Lot: 12 - The Beatles - 1966 “Butcher Cover” Yesterday and Today, Third State, mono, number “6” on lower right corner of back cover signifies a mono pressing produced at Capitol Records’ Los Angelas plant, side A runout etched T-1

The Beatles - 1966 "Butcher Cover" Yesterday and Today, Third State, mono, number "6" on lower right corner of back cover signifies a mono pressing produced at Capitol Records' Los Angelas plant, side A runout etched T-1-2553-F-23, side B runout etched T-2-2553-G-20, orange "Capitol ‘66" inner sleeve, hand pasted "trunk" cover removed to reveal the controversial artwork that was quickly recalled This is a 1966 'Butcher Cover' of The Beatles' album 'Yesterday and Today'. It is a Third State mono pressing, indicated by the number '6' on the lower right corner of the back cover, signifying production at Capitol Records' Los Angeles plant. The album features side A runout etched T-1-2553-F-23 and side B runout etched T-2-2553-G-20. It includes an orange 'Capitol ‘66' inner sleeve. The original 'trunk' cover was removed to reveal the controversial 'Butcher Cover' artwork, which was quickly recalled.

Lot: 13 - Lecrae - Anomaly, 2014, double LP box set with paperback booklet, yellow and green vinyl, stain and wear on box

Lecrae - Anomaly, 2014, double LP box set with paperback booklet, yellow and green vinyl, stain and wear on box This is a double LP box set of Lecrae's 2014 album 'Anomaly'. It includes yellow and green vinyl records and a paperback booklet. The box shows signs of wear and staining.

Lot: 14 - 7 1970’s test pressings/label copies of 12” LPs, artists include Arlo Guthrie, David Sanborn, Elizabeth Barraclough, Gladston & Thom, and Felix’s Cavaliere

7 1970's test pressings/label copies of 12" LPs, artists include Arlo Guthrie, David Sanborn, Elizabeth Barraclough, Gladston & Thom, and Felix's Cavaliere, A collection of seven 1970's test pressings and label copies of 12" LPs featuring artists such as Arlo Guthrie, David Sanborn, Elizabeth Barraclough, Gladston & Thom, and Felix Cavaliere. These test pressings were produced by Columbia Record Productions and Bearsville Records, among others. Each record is accompanied by a label copy detailing track listings and production notes.

Lot: 15 - Collection of 1950’s and 60’s rock n roll LP’s, Historical Documentary “Personally Elvis” Vol. 2, 1984, Aston Music, 2 Time Life “Your Hit Parade” double LPs, compilations from the hits of 1950 and 1951, 2 Time Life Musi

Collection of 1950's and 60's rock n roll LP's, Historical Documentary "Personally Elvis" Vol. 2, 1984, Aston Music, 2 Time Life "Your Hit Parade" double LPs, compilations from the hits of 1950 and 1951, 2 Time Life Music "The Rock n' Roll Years double LP's compilations from 1957 and 1962 A collection of rock 'n' roll LPs from the 1950s and 1960s, including a historical documentary LP titled 'Personally Elvis Vol. 2' by Astan Music, released in 1984. The collection also includes two Time Life 'Your Hit Parade' double LPs featuring compilations from 1950 and 1951, and two Time Life Music 'The Rock 'n' Roll Years' double LPs with compilations from 1957 and 1962.

Lot: 16 - Collection of Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon LPs, early stereo pressing of Bookends, 1968, A side runout etched XSM-118887-1E, B side runout etched XSM-118887-1B, runout stamped "T", Stereo KCS9529, missing poster, "Coll

Collection of Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon LPs, early stereo pressing of Bookends, 1968, A side runout etched XSM-118887-1E, B side runout etched XSM-118887-1B, runout stamped "T", Stereo KCS9529, missing poster, "Collected Works" 1981, five-record set featuring albums Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m., Sound of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water, Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon 1973 This is a collection of Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon LPs, including an early stereo pressing of 'Bookends' from 1968 with A side runout etched XSM-118887-1E and B side runout etched XSM-118887-1B. The collection also features the 'Collected Works' five-record set from 1981, which includes albums 'Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m.', 'Sound of Silence', 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme', 'Bookends', and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. Additionally, it includes Paul Simon's 'There Goes Rhymin' Simon' from 1973. The 'Bookends' album is noted to originally include a full-color poster, which is missing in this set.

Lot: 17 - 13 country/traditional American music LPs, featuring Bob Wills, Jimmie Rogers, Charlie Walker and others

13 country/traditional American music LPs, featuring Bob Wills, Jimmie Rogers, Charlie Walker and others A collection of 13 country and traditional American music LPs featuring artists such as Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers, and Charlie Walker. The collection includes albums like 'For the Last Time' by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, 'Honky Tonkin' with Charlie Walker', and 'Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits'. These records represent a significant era in American music history, showcasing the evolution of country music.

Lot: 18 - Autographed Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) with certificate of authenticity, trifold jacket shows wear

Autographed Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) with certificate of authenticity, trifold jacket shows wear This is an autographed copy of Elton John's 1973 album 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'. The album features a trifold jacket that shows signs of wear. It includes a certificate of authenticity from Old Pro Sports, verifying the autograph.

Lot: 19 - Elton John - West of the Rockies, live at Dodger Stadium, October 25th 1975, unofficial bootleg LP published by Idle Mind Productions, 1977, side A runout etched IMPEJ-3-1104-A-1, side B runout etched IMPEJ 3 SIDE 2, bot

Elton John - West of the Rockies, live at Dodger Stadium, October 25th 1975, unofficial bootleg LP published by Idle Mind Productions, 1977, side A runout etched IMPEJ-3-1104-A-1, side B runout etched IMPEJ 3 SIDE 2, both sides humorously etched "How do you keep a John Denver fan busy? (Over)", marbled green vinyl, made in Holland This is an unofficial bootleg LP titled 'West of the Rockies' featuring a live performance by Elton John at Dodger Stadium on October 25th, 1975. Published by Idle Mind Productions in 1977, the LP is pressed on marbled green vinyl and was made in Holland. The runout etchings include humorous inscriptions and identifiers: side A etched with IMPEJ-3-1104-A-1 and side B with IMPEJ 3 SIDE 2, both sides humorously etched 'How do you keep a John Denver fan busy? (Over)'. The cover features a vibrant design with a photograph of Elton John.

Lot: 20 - 3 Rolling Stones LPs, Rolling Stones Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) 1981 Japan Press, blue vinyl, "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" 1971, double LP hit compilation, Some Girls 1978

3 Rolling Stones LPs, Rolling Stones Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass) 1981 Japan Press, blue vinyl, "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" 1971, double LP hit compilation, Some Girls 1978 This collectible item consists of three Rolling Stones LPs: 'Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)' 1981 Japan Press on blue vinyl, 'Hot Rocks 1964-1971' 1971 double LP hit compilation, and 'Some Girls' 1978. The 'Big Hits' album is notable for its blue vinyl, which is a unique feature of this Japanese pressing. 'Hot Rocks' is a well-known compilation covering the band's hits from 1964 to 1971, and 'Some Girls' is a classic album from the late 70s. Each album includes original cover art and inserts.

Lot: 21 - 4 Rod Stewart LPs, Never a Dull Moment, Smiler, Foolish Behaviour, Tonight I'm Yours

4 Rod Stewart LPs, Never a Dull Moment, Smiler, Foolish Behaviour, Tonight I'm Yours Four Rod Stewart LPs: 'Never a Dull Moment' (1972, possibly a first pressing), 'Smiler' (1974), 'Foolish Behaviour' (1980) complete with its poster, and 'Tonight I'm Yours' (1981). Never a Dull Moment is the follow-up to Every Picture Tells a Story and the last of the run Stewart made with the Faces backing him, while the two 1980s albums catch him mid-transition into arena pop. Each album features its original cover art and represents a different phase of his career.

Lot: 22 - Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors, 1977, MCA 3029, original flame cover

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Street Survivors, 1977, MCA 3029, original flame cover This is an original 1977 pressing of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" album, featuring the recalled 'flame cover'. It includes a gatefold jacket, side A runout etched MCA-1366 CR 2F7, stamped MASTERED BY CAPITOL, and side B runout etched MCA-1366 CR 6F6, stamped MASTERED BY CAPITOL. The package comes with Skynyrd credits/tour dates insert and a 'Survival Kit' merchandise promotion.

Lot: 23 - 3 Traffic LPs, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, Low Spark, John Barleycorn Must Die

3 Traffic LPs, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, Low Spark, John Barleycorn Must Die A collection of three vinyl LPs by the band Traffic, featuring the albums 'Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory' (1973), 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' (1971), and 'John Barleycorn Must Die' (1970). These records are notable for their original pressings and iconic cover art.

Lot: 24 - 7 rock/pop LPs, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, The Fixx, Fabulous Thunderbirds

7 rock/pop LPs, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, The Fixx, Fabulous Thunderbirds Seven rock and pop LPs from the 1970s and 1980s. Eurythmics' Revenge; two J. Geils Band records spanning their arc — Bloodshot, the 1973 blues-rock album pressed on red vinyl, and Freeze Frame, the 1981 record that took them to number one with "Centerfold"; The Fixx's Shuttered Room; The Fabulous Thunderbirds' What's the Word, the Austin blues band featuring Jimmie Vaughan and Kim Wilson; Jefferson Starship's Modern Times; and Bronski Beat's Truthdare Doubledare, the synth-pop group's second album after Jimmy Somerville departed. A varied lot that catches both the tail of the album-rock era and the arrival of British synth-pop.

Lot: 25 - 2 The Doors LPs, Other Voices 1971, The Soft Parade 1970, Elektra stereo

2 The Doors LPs, Other Voices 1971, The Soft Parade 1970, Elektra stereo This collectible item consists of two vinyl LPs by The Doors, released on Elektra Records. The albums are 'Other Voices' (1971, EKS-75017 Stereo) and 'The Soft Parade' (1970, EKS-75005 Stereo). The covers show signs of wear consistent with age, and the records appear to be in good condition.

Lot: 26 - 5 Elton John LPs, Rock of the Westies, Jump Up, Friends, Ice On Fire, Blue Moves

5 Elton John LPs, Rock of the Westies, Jump Up, Friends, Ice On Fire, Blue Moves A collection of five Elton John LPs including 'Rock of the Westies', 'Jump Up', 'Friends' original soundtrack, 'Ice On Fire' promotional copy, and 'Blue Moves' double LP. These records feature iconic album art and are representative of Elton John's work during the 1970s and 1980s.

Lot: 27 - 11 rock LPs, Robert Palmer, Boz Scaggs, Wishbone Ash, Uli Jon Roth

11 rock LPs, Robert Palmer, Boz Scaggs, Wishbone Ash, Uli Jon Roth Eleven LPs from the 1970s and 1980s. Robert Palmer appears three times — Secrets, Riptide and Early in the Morning — covering the stretch from his blue-eyed soul period to the Power Station-era hits. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees, the 1976 album cut with the musicians who would become Toto; Al Stewart's 24 Carrots; Wishbone Ash's No Smoke Without Fire; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Manfred Mann's Earth Band; Climax Blues Band's Sense of Direction; a Tom Rush album on Columbia; and Beyond the Astral Skies by Uli Jon Roth's Electric Sun — Roth being the Scorpions guitarist whose neoclassical playing shaped a whole school of European rock guitar.

Lot: 28 - 2 LPs, Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless 1983, Juice Newton – Juice 1981

2 LPs, Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless 1983, Juice Newton – Juice 1981 This collectible item consists of two LP records: Thomas Dolby's 'The Golden Age of Wireless' from 1983, featuring the hit song 'She Blinded Me With Science', and Juice Newton's 'Juice' from 1981. Both records are in their original sleeves, showing some signs of wear typical for items of this age.

Lot: 29 - Vintage 1966 olive green Beatles Disk-Go-Case 45 RPM record carrier

Vintage 1966 olive green Beatles Disk-Go-Case 45 RPM record carrier This is a vintage 1966 olive green Beatles 'Disk-Go-Case' designed to carry 7" 45 RPM records. It features black band silhouettes and facsimile autographs of The Beatles members. The case is 8.5 inches in height and 8 inches in diameter, with a cream-colored handle on top.

Lot: 30 - Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads, 1965, mono, London LL3429, first pressing

Rolling Stones – Out of Our Heads, 1965, mono, London LL3429, first pressing This is an original 1965 first-pressing mono vinyl record of 'Out of Our Heads' by The Rolling Stones, released by London Records (LL3429). The album was mastered and pressed for the American market, featuring the boxed 'LONDON ffrr' logo on the label. The runout on side 1 is stamped XARL-6791-2A, and side 2 is stamped XARL-6791-1A.

Lot: 31 - The Rolling Stones – In Again Out Again On Tour 1978, 1979 bootleg, Oakland Records

The Rolling Stones – In Again Out Again On Tour 1978, 1979 bootleg, Oakland Records This is an unofficial vinyl bootleg album by The Rolling Stones titled "In Again Out Again - On Tour 1978". It was released on the Oakland Records label in 1979. The album features a yellow insert sheet and a blank jacket. The recording is from a live concert at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, on June 14, 1978. The runout is etched with "1979-A" and "1979-B".

Lot: 32 - John Denver, 1979 self titled album with 2 unauthenticated signatures

John Denver, 1979 self titled album with 2 unauthenticated signatures This is a 1979 self-titled album by John Denver, featuring two unauthenticated signatures on the cover. The album includes tracks such as 'Downhill Stuff' and 'Sweet Melinda'. The cover shows signs of wear, including edge scuffing and a sticker residue. The record was produced by RCA Victor and mastered by Capitol.

Lot: 33 - 4 Culture Club LPs, 2 pressings of Colour by Numbers, Waking Up, Kissing to be Clever

4 Culture Club LPs, 2 pressings of Colour by Numbers, Waking Up, Kissing to be Clever This collection includes four LPs by Culture Club: two different pressings of 'Colour by Numbers' (1983), one Canadian pressing (VL 2271) and one US pressing (QE 39107), 'Waking Up With The House on Fire' (1984), and 'Kissing to be Clever' (1982). The albums feature iconic cover art and are representative of the band's influential work during the early 1980s.

Lot: 34 - 5 picture disc LPs, Barry Manilow, Rocky Horror, Judas Priest, Rod Stewart

5 picture disc LPs, Barry Manilow, Rocky Horror, Judas Priest, Rod Stewart A collection of five picture disc LPs featuring Barry Manilow's 'Greatest Hits' double LP (1978), 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' soundtrack (limited edition II no. 36449), Judas Priest's 'Love Bites' single (1984), Rod Stewart's 'Blondes Have More Fun' (1978), and Amii Stewart's 'Knock On Wood' single (1979).

Lot: 35 - 4 audiophile LPs, Karajan, Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli, Yo-Yo Ma, Rachmaninoff

4 audiophile LPs, Karajan, Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli, Yo-Yo Ma, Rachmaninoff Four audiophile and premium-mastering LPs, three of them Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Original Master Recordings. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Ravel's Bolero and Debussy's La Mer, 1978 (MFSL 1-513); Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli, "Live" at the London Palladium, 1973 (MFSL 1-048); and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 with Yuri Temirkanov and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 1978 (MFSL 1-521). The fourth is a CBS Records Masterworks half-speed pressing of Yo-Yo Ma with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Strauss's Don Quixote and Schoenberg's Concerto in D major, 1985 (IM 39863). MFSL pressings were cut at half speed from original master tapes on virgin vinyl and are collected specifically for their sound.

Lot: 36 - 2 Santo & Johnny LPs, Hawaii 1961, Around the World 1962, Canadian American

2 Santo & Johnny LPs, Hawaii 1961, Around the World 1962, Canadian American This collectible item consists of two LP records by Santo & Johnny. The first album, "Hawaii," was released in 1961 under Canadian American Records (CALP 1004). The second album, "Around the World with Santo & Johnny," was released in 1962 (CALP 1008). Both albums feature instrumental tracks with a focus on steel guitar melodies.

Lot: 37 - 11 LPs, Deep Purple Made in Japan, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Hall & Oates

11 LPs, Deep Purple Made in Japan, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Hall & Oates Eleven LPs across rock, pop and soul. The standout is Deep Purple's Made in Japan, the 1972 double album widely held to be one of the greatest live rock records ever released and the definitive document of the Mk II lineup. With it: two Neil Diamond albums, the Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack and Beautiful Noise, the latter produced by Robbie Robertson of The Band; Art Garfunkel's Breakaway; Eric Clapton's Backless; Daryl Hall & John Oates's H2O; The George Benson Collection; Blood, Sweat & Tears 3; Grand Funk's Phoenix; Kenny Rogers's What About Me?; and Village People's Go West.

Lot: 38 - Miles Davis – Kind of Blue, Japanese pressing, CBS/Sony 28AP 2833, with obi

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue, Japanese pressing, CBS/Sony 28AP 2833, with obi This is a Japanese pressing of 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, released by CBS/Sony with catalog number 28AP 2833. It features a blue obi strip and includes a Japanese liner note booklet. Part of the Miles Digital Mastering Series, it is a stereo version.

Lot: 39 - 5 Joe Cocker LPs, Joe Cocker! 1969, Luxury You Can Afford, Sheffield Steel, Stingray

5 Joe Cocker LPs, Joe Cocker! 1969, Luxury You Can Afford, Sheffield Steel, Stingray Five Joe Cocker LPs spanning his first decade and a half. 'Joe Cocker!' (1969) is an early pressing of the second album, recorded partly at Muscle Shoals and containing his reading of 'She Came In Through the Bathroom Window' and 'Delta Lady'. 'I Can Stand a Little Rain' (1974) is the Jim Price-produced comeback with 'You Are So Beautiful'. 'Stingray' (1976) was cut in Jamaica with Stuff as the backing band. 'Luxury You Can Afford' (1978) features Allen Toussaint's arrangements and members of Booker T. & the MG's. 'Sheffield Steel' (1982) was recorded at Compass Point in the Bahamas with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and is widely rated his strongest late-period record. Sleeves show shelf wear consistent with age.

Lot: 40 - 8 bluegrass/country LPs, Eddy Arnold, The Highwaymen, The Desert Rose Band

8 bluegrass/country LPs, Eddy Arnold, The Highwaymen, The Desert Rose Band Eight bluegrass and country LPs, mixing name artists with regional string-band pressings. Eddy Arnold's Songs I Like to Sing — Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, placed more than 140 singles on the country charts and did as much as anyone to move the music from barn dance toward the crooned Nashville Sound. The Highwaymen's Standing Room Only on United Artists is the Wesleyan University folk quartet who took "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" to number one in 1961, not the later Nelson-Cash-Jennings-Kristofferson supergroup of the same name. The Desert Rose Band is Chris Hillman's group with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson, formed after the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers and responsible for a run of top-ten country singles in the late 1980s. Rounding out the lot: The Bluegrass Special (sixteen songs with five-string banjo), Stoney Creek String Band, SouthBound, Jack Tingham and The Dixie Grass's Deep in the Heart of the Blue Ridge, and Sounds of the Mountains by the Lucas and Harmon Brothers with Uncle Earl. Honest working copies throughout.

Lot: 41 - 4 funk LPs, Bootsy's Rubber Band, George Clinton, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins

4 funk LPs, Bootsy's Rubber Band, George Clinton, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins Four funk LPs from the Parliament-Funkadelic camp at its commercial peak and after. Bootsy's Rubber Band's 'Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!' (1977) reached number one on the R&B chart and is the album that made Bootsy Collins a star in his own right after his years with James Brown and P-Funk. Funkadelic's 'One Nation Under a Groove' (1978), here retaining the bonus seven-inch issued with early copies, is the group's biggest seller. George Clinton's 'Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends' (1985) comes from his Capitol solo run. Bootsy Collins's 'What's Bootsy Doin'?' (1988) closes the set. Covers show wear consistent with age.

Lot: 42 - 4 Funkadelic LPs, One Nation Under a Groove, Let's Take It To The Stage, Kidd Funkadelic

4 Funkadelic LPs, One Nation Under a Groove, Let's Take It To The Stage, Kidd Funkadelic Four Funkadelic LPs covering both the band's peak and its messy end. One Nation Under a Groove (1978, Warner Bros.) is the commercial high-water mark — a million-seller that sat atop the R&B chart for weeks — and this copy retains the bonus seven-inch that came with early pressings. Let's Take It to the Stage (1975, Westbound) contains "Get Off Your Ass and Jam," a guitar break later at the centre of Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films, the appellate ruling that effectively required a licence for any recognisable digital sample and reshaped how hip-hop was made. Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (1976) was the last Westbound album before George Clinton moved the operation to Warner Bros. Connections & Disconnections (1981) is the outlier: recorded by former members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas without Clinton, during the legal fight over who owned the Funkadelic name. Vibrant psychedelic sleeve art throughout; covers show some wear.

Lot: 43 - 5 Jimmy Cliff LPs, The Harder They Come, Give Thankx, Music Maker, I Am The Living

5 Jimmy Cliff LPs, The Harder They Come, Give Thankx, Music Maker, I Am The Living This collection includes five LPs by Jimmy Cliff: 'The Harder They Come' original soundtrack recording (1972), 'Give Thankx' (1978), 'I Am The Living' (1980), 'Music Maker' (1974), and 'The Power and the Glory' (1983). These albums showcase Jimmy Cliff's influential reggae music and are significant for their cultural impact.

Lot: 44 - 2 Parliament LPs, Glory Hallastoopid 1979, Trombipulation 1980

2 Parliament LPs, Glory Hallastoopid 1979, Trombipulation 1980 This collectible item consists of two LP albums by Parliament: 'Gloryhallastoopid (Pin the Tail on the Funky)' released in 1979 and 'Trombipulation' released in 1980. Both albums feature distinctive cover art characteristic of the funk genre and are produced by George Clinton. The albums are original pressings from Casablanca Records.

Lot: 45 - 3 Parliament LPs, Mothership Connection, Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Funkentelechy

3 Parliament LPs, Mothership Connection, Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Funkentelechy This collectible item consists of three LP albums by Parliament: 'Mothership Connection' (1975), 'The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein' (1976), and 'Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome' (1977). The collection includes a booklet insert. The albums are known for their iconic funk music and distinctive cover art, reflecting the band's influence on the genre.

Lot: 46 - 6 Bachman-Turner Overdrive LPs, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive, Freeways, 2 BTO II

6 Bachman-Turner Overdrive LPs, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive, Freeways, 2 BTO II A collection of 6 Bachman-Turner Overdrive LPs, including 'Not Fragile', 'Four Wheel Drive', 'Self-titled release', 'Freeways', and 2 copies of 'BTO II'. These records feature iconic rock music from the 1970s, showcasing the band's classic sound.

Lot: 47 - 5 Grand Funk Railroad LPs, 2 Survival, 2 Closer to Home, E Pluribus Funk

5 Grand Funk Railroad LPs, 2 Survival, 2 Closer to Home, E Pluribus Funk This collection includes five LP records by Grand Funk Railroad: two copies of 'Survival', two copies of 'Closer to Home', and one 'E Pluribus Funk'. The albums feature iconic rock music from the early 1970s, with distinctive cover art and original vinyl pressings.

Lot: 48 - 10 country/folk/bluegrass LPs, Bill Monroe, Buck White, Jim Kweskin

10 country/folk/bluegrass LPs, Bill Monroe, Buck White, Jim Kweskin Ten country, folk and bluegrass LPs. Father & Son pairs Bill Monroe — the man who invented bluegrass and named it after his Blue Grass Boys — with his son James. Buck White & the Down Home Folks recorded In Person at Randy Wood's Old Time Picking Parlor; White's daughters would later become half of The Whites and Sharon would marry Ricky Skaggs. Also here: Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn's Two's a Party; Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band's Jug Band Music on Vanguard, the Cambridge group that launched Maria Muldaur and Geoff Muldaur; Greatest Folksingers of the 'Sixties, a two-LP Vanguard anthology; Phoebe Snow's Never Letting Go; Dobie Gray's Hey Dixie; The Corklickers' old-time southern tunes; and a Dot banjo compilation.

Lot: 49 - 7 Neil Young LPs, Live Rust, Decade, After the Gold Rush, American Stars N' Bars

7 Neil Young LPs, Live Rust, Decade, After the Gold Rush, American Stars N' Bars This is a collection of seven Neil Young LPs, including 'Live Rust', 'Decade 3 LP collection', 'Everybody's Rockin'', 'American Stars N' Bars', 'Landing on Water', 'Hawks & Doves', and 'After the Gold Rush'. The collection includes a poster and features albums from various phases of Neil Young's career.

Lot: 50 - 8 Barbra Streisand LPs, Greatest Hits 1 & 2, Stoney End, Classical Barbra

8 Barbra Streisand LPs, Greatest Hits 1 & 2, Stoney End, Classical Barbra Eight Barbra Streisand LPs covering more than two decades. Both Greatest Hits volumes; Stoney End, the 1971 Richard Perry-produced album that deliberately moved her out of show tunes and into contemporary pop and gave her a Laura Nyro title track; The Way We Were; Superman; One Voice, the live recording of her 1986 benefit concert; Till I Loved You; and Classical Barbra, the 1976 album on which she sings Debussy, Fauré, Handel, Schumann and Wolf with Claus Ogerman conducting. Classical Barbra is the outlier in her discography and the one collectors tend to hunt for. A tidy single-artist run for a Streisand buyer.

Lot: 51 - 11 Neil Diamond LPs, The Jazz Singer, Serenade, Solitary Man, Moods

11 Neil Diamond LPs, The Jazz Singer, Serenade, Solitary Man, Moods Eleven Neil Diamond LPs, including duplicates of two titles. The Jazz Singer appears twice — the 1980 soundtrack to the Laurence Olivier remake that produced "Love on the Rocks," "Hello Again" and "America" — as does Serenade, the 1974 album containing "Longfellow Serenade." Also here: Solitary Man, Moods, On the Way to the Sky, 14 Love Songs, Primitive, Heartlight and Headed for the Future. The run spans his Bang-era songwriting through the arena years, and the doubled titles make it workable for a dealer splitting the lot. Sleeves show typical shelf wear for records of this vintage.

Lot: 52 - 4 Emmylou Harris LPs, Luxury Liner, Ballad of Sally Rose, Pieces of the Sky

4 Emmylou Harris LPs, Luxury Liner, Ballad of Sally Rose, Pieces of the Sky A collection of four LP records by Emmylou Harris, including "Luxury Liner", "The Ballad of Sally Rose", "Pieces of the Sky", and "Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town". These albums are significant works in Harris's discography, showcasing her contributions to country and folk music.

Lot: 53 - 9 classical/orchestral LPs, Colin Davis Berlioz, Vivaldi, Henry Mancini

9 classical/orchestral LPs, Colin Davis Berlioz, Vivaldi, Henry Mancini Nine classical and light orchestral LPs. On the serious side: Berlioz's complete songs with orchestra performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis on Philips, the conductor whose Berlioz cycle remains a benchmark; two Vivaldi records, the Four Concertos for Two Orchestras on Seraphim and the Lute and Mandolin Concerti on Turnabout; and Jazz Guitar Bach on Nonesuch, André Benichou's Well-Tempered Three playing the Two-Part Inventions on guitars. On the popular side: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops in Pops Roundup, Mantovani's Waltz Encores, two Henry Mancini albums (Music from Mr. Lucky, RCA LSP-2198, and The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini), and the original Broadway cast of Camelot.

Lot: 54 - 14 rock LPs, Iron Butterfly, Weather Report, Foreigner, Blood Sweat & Tears

14 rock LPs, Iron Butterfly, Weather Report, Foreigner, Blood Sweat & Tears Fourteen rock LPs. Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, the 1968 album whose seventeen-minute title side became one of the best-selling records of its decade, plus their later Scorching Beauty. Blood, Sweat & Tears appear three times, including Child Is Father to the Man — the Al Kooper-led debut that is the one critics rate — and New Blood. Weather Report's Night Passage, from the Zawinul-Shorter group at their peak with Jaco Pastorius on bass. Two Foreigner records, Head Games and Agent Provocateur; Foghat's Stone Blue; The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Tuff Enuff; Seals & Crofts's Diamond Girl; Crack the Sky's Live Sky; and Gene Cotton's Save the Dancer.

Lot: 55 - 16 classic rock LPs, Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent, John Mayall, George Thorogood

16 classic rock LPs, Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent, John Mayall, George Thorogood Sixteen classic rock LPs, several of them multi-album artist runs. Three Ted Nugent records — Scream Dream, Intensities in 10 Cities and Survival of the Fittest Live with the Amboy Dukes. Three John Mayall albums including Jazz Blues Fusion, recorded live in Boston and New York, from the bandleader whose Bluesbreakers passed Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor through in three years. Two Jethro Tull, Stormwatch and War Child; two George Thorogood and the Destroyers, including Move It On Over. Plus Aerosmith's Done with Mirrors, The Knack's Get the Knack, Chicago 16, Scorpions' Blackout, Loverboy and Mother's Finest Live.

Lot: 56 - 15 classic rock LPs, Dan Fogelberg, Boz Scaggs, Glenn Frey, Night Ranger

15 classic rock LPs, Dan Fogelberg, Boz Scaggs, Glenn Frey, Night Ranger Fifteen classic rock LPs spanning the 1970s and 1980s. Two Dan Fogelberg albums, Phoenix and the double LP The Innocent Age; two Boz Scaggs, Silk Degrees and Hits!; Glenn Frey's first solo album after the Eagles, No Fun Aloud; Eddie Money's Life for the Taking; two Night Ranger records including Midnight Madness; Air Supply's The One That You Love; Manfred Mann's Earth Band's Watch; Spooky Tooth; Grand Funk; the southern rock band Hydra; and, unexpectedly, Pierre Henry's Ceremony on A&M — a musique concrète composer collaborating with the rock group Spooky Tooth, and by some distance the strangest record in the box.

Lot: 57 - 14 classic rock LPs, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band, Edgar Winter, Traffic

14 classic rock LPs, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band, Edgar Winter, Traffic Fourteen classic rock LPs. Jefferson Starship appear four times, including Red Octopus — their 1975 number-one album with "Miracles" — plus Spitfire and Earth. Two J. Geils Band records, Ladies Invited and Freeze Frame. The Edgar Winter Group's They Only Come Out at Night, home of the instrumental "Frankenstein" and one of the first records to put a synthesizer on a rock musician's shoulders. Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die, the 1970 album that turned an English folk ballad into extended jazz-rock. Also Peter Wolf's Lights Out, Firefall's Élan, The Reels, and the Roadie and More American Graffiti soundtracks.

Lot: 58 - 4 The Band LPs, The Last Waltz 3 LP promo, Music From Big Pink, Robbie Robertson

4 The Band LPs, The Last Waltz 3 LP promo, Music From Big Pink, Robbie Robertson This collectible set includes four LPs featuring The Band and their collaborators. The set comprises 'The Last Waltz' 3 LP set with a booklet, a Warner Bros promotional copy not intended for sale, 'Music From Big Pink', 'Bob Dylan/The Band Recorded Live in Concert' double LP, and Robbie Robertson's 1987 solo album. The promotional nature of 'The Last Waltz' LP adds to its uniqueness.

Lot: 59 - 3 Bob Dylan / The Band LPs, Times They Are A-Changin', Music From Big Pink

3 Bob Dylan / The Band LPs, Times They Are A-Changin', Music From Big Pink This collectible item consists of three LPs featuring Bob Dylan and The Band. The first is Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', a stereo pressing with an insert. The second is 'Music From Big Pink' by The Band, and the third is 'Bob Dylan/The Band Recorded Live in Concert 1974', a two-record set promotional copy not intended for sale.

Lot: 60 - 2 Miles Davis LPs, Kind of Blue, Someday My Prince Will Come, stereo

2 Miles Davis LPs, Kind of Blue, Someday My Prince Will Come, stereo This collectible item consists of two legendary Miles Davis LPs: 'Kind of Blue' and 'Someday My Prince Will Come'. Both are stereo pressings. 'Kind of Blue' features runout stamps XLP47324-1AC on side A and XLP47325-BA on side B. 'Someday My Prince Will Come' features runout stamps XSM53315-1A on side A and XSM53316-1B on side B. Both records and jackets are in rough condition, which affects their overall value. These albums are iconic in the jazz genre, featuring collaborations with notable musicians such as John Coltrane and Bill Evans.

Lot: 61 - 12 promotional/DJ LPs, Aretha Franklin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Booker T & the MG's

12 promotional/DJ LPs, Aretha Franklin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Booker T & the MG's Twelve promotional, demonstration and radio-station copies, none originally intended for retail sale. Highlights: Mahavishnu Orchestra's Between Nothingness & Eternity, a Columbia radio station copy of the live album cut at Central Park in 1973; Aretha Franklin's Almighty Fire on Atlantic, produced by Curtis Mayfield; Booker T and the MG's Universal Language; and the Ray Bryant Trio's Con Alma, a Columbia demonstration copy. Also here: Stanley Clarke on Nemperor, the Spinners' Love Trippin', Lou Rawls's All Things in Time, The Best of Hank Crawford, Pointer Sisters' Priority, Stacy Lattisaw on Cotillion, Third World on Island, and NYC Peech Boys' Life Is Something Special. Promo copies were pressed in small numbers and frequently carry timing strips, gold stamps or drilled sleeves.

Lot: 62 - 10 Bob Dylan LPs, Greatest Hits 1 & 2, Blood on the Tracks, Another Side

10 Bob Dylan LPs, Greatest Hits 1 & 2, Blood on the Tracks, Another Side This collection includes 10 Bob Dylan LPs: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, Bob Dylan self-titled, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks, Knocked Out Loaded, 2 copies of Slow Train Coming, Shot of Love, and the Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid soundtrack. The albums feature a range of Dylan's work, showcasing his influence on music and culture.

Lot: 63 - 10 Bob Dylan LPs, At Budokan, Nashville Skyline, John Wesley Harding, Infidels

10 Bob Dylan LPs, At Budokan, Nashville Skyline, John Wesley Harding, Infidels A collection of 10 Bob Dylan LPs including 'Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2', 'At Budokan', 'Street-Legal', 'Nashville Skyline', 'John Wesley Harding', 'Infidels', 'New Morning', 'Slow Train Coming', and 'Planet Waves'. These records feature iconic album art and represent a significant portion of Dylan's discography.

Lot: 64 - Fleetwood Mac – Tusk, double LP with Warner Bros promotional press kit

Fleetwood Mac – Tusk, double LP with Warner Bros promotional press kit This collection includes a promotional double LP from classic rock artist Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' with a promotional press kit. This demonstration copy was not initially intended for sale, adding to their collectable value

Lot: 65 - 10 promotional/demo LPs, Bonnie Raitt, Seals & Crofts, Andy Taylor, Point Blank

10 promotional/demo LPs, Bonnie Raitt, Seals & Crofts, Andy Taylor, Point Blank Ten promotional and demonstration copies, not initially intended for sale. Bonnie Raitt's Nine Lives; Seals & Crofts's Unborn Child; Andy Taylor's Thunder, the Duran Duran guitarist's solo debut; Donnie Iris's Fortune 410; Point Blank's The Hard Way (MCA, 1980), the Texas hard rock band ZZ Top's management brought forward; Change's Change of Heart on Atlantic, the Italian-American studio project that gave Luther Vandross his first lead vocals; the Canadian rock band Wrabit; Sandy Stewart on Modern Records; Garrison and Van Dyke on Atco; and Pickins' First Time Out. Radio promos generally saw one or two plays before being shelved, so playing surfaces on records like these are often better than their sleeves suggest.

Lot: 66 - Queen – Bicycle Race / Fat Bottomed Girls promo 12”, Elektra, 1978

Queen – Bicycle Race / Fat Bottomed Girls promo 12", Elektra, 1978 This is a humorous promotional copy of Queen's singles 'Bicycle Race' and 'Fat Bottomed Girls' from their album 'Jazz'. The 12-inch record features both singles pressed on each side, with the jacket labeled 'Bicycle Race & Fat Ass Girls'. The runout etchings are ASS-11401-XSP on side A and ASS-11401-YSP on side B. Released by Elektra Records in 1978, this item is a collectible piece of music memorabilia.

Lot: 67 - Beastie Boys – License to Ill, 1986, promotional copy

Beastie Boys – License to Ill, 1986, promotional copy Beastie Boys - License to Ill, 1986, promotional copy

Lot: 68 - 5 Prince records, Purple Rain with poster, 1999, Dirty Mind, 2 singles

5 Prince records, Purple Rain with poster, 1999, Dirty Mind, 2 singles Five Prince records spanning his most consequential seven years. Dirty Mind (1980) is the album that changed his standing — recorded almost entirely alone in his Minneapolis home studio, played on every instrument, and explicit enough that radio balked while critics decided he was serious. 1999 (1982) is the double album built on the Linn drum machine that broke him on MTV and pop radio, containing "Little Red Corvette" and the title track. Purple Rain (1984), here with its poster present, held number one for twenty-four weeks and won an Academy Award for its song score. Alongside the albums are two twelve-inch singles: "Pop Life," from Around the World in a Day (1985), and "If I Was Your Girlfriend," from Sign o' the Times (1987), the track Prince sang in his pitched-up Camille voice and one of the strangest singles a major label ever pushed to radio.

Lot: 69 - 2 Michael Jackson LPs, Bad and Thriller

2 Michael Jackson LPs, Bad and Thriller This collectible item consists of two iconic Michael Jackson LPs: 'Bad' and 'Thriller'. 'Bad', released in 1987, features hits like 'Smooth Criminal' and 'Man in the Mirror'. 'Thriller', released in 1982, includes legendary tracks such as 'Billie Jean' and 'Beat It'. Both albums are significant in pop culture history and showcase Michael Jackson's influence on music and entertainment.

Lot: 70 - 9 Eric Clapton LPs, Rainbow Concert, Behind the Sun, Money and Cigarettes

9 Eric Clapton LPs, Rainbow Concert, Behind the Sun, Money and Cigarettes Nine Eric Clapton LPs covering the 1970s and 1980s. Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert documents the January 1973 comeback show Pete Townshend organised to get Clapton out of seclusion. Big Boss Man reunites him on record with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. White Boy Blues collects early sides by Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page — the three guitarists who all passed through The Yardbirds. Also here: Behind the Sun, produced by Phil Collins; Money and Cigarettes; No Reason to Cry, recorded at The Band's Shangri-La studio with Dylan and Robbie Robertson present; Another Ticket; There's One in Every Crowd; and Backless.

Lot: 71 - 8 Linda Ronstadt LPs, Lush Life, What's New and Silk Purse sealed

8 Linda Ronstadt LPs, Lush Life, What's New and Silk Purse sealed Eight Linda Ronstadt LPs in exceptional condition, three of them still sealed in original shrink: Lush Life and What's New — two of the three albums she recorded with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra, the project that put a rock singer in front of a full 1940s-style arranging desk and sold millions against every industry expectation — and Silk Purse, her 1970 country-leaning second solo album. What's New appears twice and Get Closer twice. Also here: Prisoner in Disguise and A Retrospective on Capitol. Sealed original pressings of the Riddle albums are increasingly hard to find, and the whole run presents unusually clean.

Lot: 72 - 3 Led Zeppelin / Jimmy Page LPs, Led Zeppelin II, In Through the Out Door, Outrider

3 Led Zeppelin / Jimmy Page LPs, Led Zeppelin II, In Through the Out Door, Outrider Three Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page LPs. 'Led Zeppelin II' is a 1969-1970 pressing with gatefold cover and hype sticker; side A runout etched ST-A-691671-Q with the AT stamp indicating Atco/Atlantic mastering. 'In Through the Out Door' retains its paper bag jacket, side A runout etched ST-SS-794345-L STRAWBERRY 0-2 SMI-7 and side B ST-SS-794346-L STRAWBERRY 0-2 SMI-2 — the STRAWBERRY etchings identify mastering at Robert Ludwig's Masterdisk. Also included is Jimmy Page's 1988 solo album 'Outrider', his only solo studio record, featuring Robert Plant on one track.

Lot: 73 - 12 Johnny Cash LPs, The Fabulous Johnny Cash, Old Golden Throat, Sun pressings

12 Johnny Cash LPs, The Fabulous Johnny Cash, Old Golden Throat, Sun pressings Twelve Johnny Cash LPs spanning both halves of his career. From Sun: The Singing Story Teller, and Sunday Down South, which pairs Cash with Jerry Lee Lewis. From Columbia: The Fabulous Johnny Cash — his first album for the label after leaving Sam Phillips — The Sound of Johnny Cash, Old Golden Throat, The Johnny Cash Show, and Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Also Johnny Cash and His Woman with June Carter Cash, their Jackson single album, The Best of Johnny Cash on Harmony, and Five Kings of the Country World, sharing sides with Ray Price, Marty Robbins, Jerry Reed and David Houston.

Lot: 74 - 25 LPs, The Sound of Jazz, Fletcher Henderson, Ennio Morricone, Al Hirt

25 LPs, The Sound of Jazz, Fletcher Henderson, Ennio Morricone, Al Hirt Twenty-five LPs across jazz, orchestral, pop and soundtracks. The best record here is The Sound of Jazz on Columbia — the album from the 1957 CBS broadcast that put Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Henry "Red" Allen, Jimmy Rushing and the Jimmy Giuffre Trio in one room, and which contains Holiday and Lester Young's last performance together. Also of note: Fletcher Henderson's First Impressions 1924–1931, documenting the band that effectively invented big-band arranging; Rob McConnell's Boss Brass with Phil Woods; John Dankworth's The Zodiac Variations; Dave Grusin and the NY-LA Dream Band; and Ennio Morricone's A Fistful of Dollars score. The remainder is mid-century popular: Al Hirt, The Limeliters, Floyd Cramer, The Four Aces, Henry Mancini, Leontyne Price and the Billy Jack soundtrack.

Lot: 75 - 10 Christmas LPs, Bing Crosby, Partridge Family, E. Power Biggs, Jackie Gleason

10 Christmas LPs, Bing Crosby, Partridge Family, E. Power Biggs, Jackie Gleason Ten Christmas albums covering the full range of mid-century holiday recording. Bing Crosby's That Christmas Feeling on Decca, from the man whose "White Christmas" remains the best-selling single ever released; Pat Boone's White Christmas; Jackie Gleason's White Christmas; and A Partridge Family Christmas Card on Bell, the 1971 album that reached the top of the Billboard Christmas chart. Also here: organist E. Power Biggs with the Columbia Chamber Orchestra under Zoltán Rozsnyai; Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Music Volume 4 with Julie Andrews, Vic Damone and Metropolitan Opera singers Dorothy Kirsten and James McCracken; Jim Nabors's Merry Christmas; The John McCarthy Chorale's sing-along on RCA; Robert Rheims's organ and chimes album; and The Waltons' Christmas Album.

Lot: 76 - 12 jazz LPs, Getz/Gilberto, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Jimmy Smith

12 jazz LPs, Getz/Gilberto, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Jimmy Smith Twelve jazz LPs. Getz/Gilberto on Verve is the record that broke bossa nova worldwide — Stan Getz and João Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim at the piano and Astrud Gilberto singing "The Girl from Ipanema" — and it won Album of the Year at the Grammys, the first jazz record ever to do so. Clifford Brown and Max Roach Live at the Bee Hive captures the trumpeter shortly before the car crash that killed him at twenty-five. Also here: The Best of Jimmy Smith, the organist who defined the Hammond B-3 in jazz; Lou Donaldson's Live: Fried Buzzard; Illinois Jacquet with Count Basie; J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding's Trombone for Two; Freddie Hubbard's Skylark; Herbie Mann; Stan Kenton; and Deodato's 2001 on CTI.

Lot: 77 - 10 jazz LPs, Modern Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper

10 jazz LPs, Modern Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper Ten jazz LPs, strong on the 1950s and 60s mainstream. The Modern Jazz Quartet's Fontessa (Atlantic 1231), the group's second Atlantic album and the clearest statement of John Lewis's chamber-jazz ambitions. Getz Au Go Go (Verve V6-8600), the New Stan Getz Quartet recorded at the Café Au Go Go with Astrud Gilberto singing. Art Pepper's Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard, from the alto saxophonist's remarkable late comeback. Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 on Pablo; Kenny Burrell and Grover Washington Jr.'s Togethering on Blue Note; Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson on Cherry (CTI); Sidney DeParis's DeParis Dixie on Blue Note; The Classic Swing of Buck Clayton on Riverside; a Hal McKusick quintet date with Art Farmer; and a Europa Jazz tenor anthology.

Lot: 78 - 23 jazz LPs and box sets, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington

23 jazz LPs and box sets, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington Twenty-three jazz LPs and box sets. Art Tatum appears on four records, including Piano Magic and the Epitaph anthology covering 1910–1956, documenting the pianist whose technique intimidated every peer who heard him. Bill Evans's Further Conversations with Myself (Verve V6-8727), the overdubbed solo project in which he plays trio with two versions of himself. Ahmad Jamal is here twice — At the Blackhawk and Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet on Argo — from the pianist Miles Davis openly copied for his use of space. Two Duke Ellington albums, Ellington Indigos and Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown. Plus three Ramsey Lewis records, Cannonball Adderley, Kai Winding on Impulse, Gerry Mulligan with Getz and Desmond, the Australian Jazz Quartet, and two box sets: The Birdland Story on Roulette and Decca's Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records.

Lot: 79 - 4 Led Zeppelin LPs, Houses of the Holy, Presence, In Through the Out Door

4 Led Zeppelin LPs, Houses of the Holy, Presence, In Through the Out Door Four Led Zeppelin LPs. Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic SD 19127), the 1969 album written and recorded on the road between American tours, containing "Whole Lotta Love" and "Ramble On." Houses of the Holy, with the Hipgnosis sleeve shot at the Giant's Causeway. Presence on Swan Song, the 1976 album written and cut in three weeks while Robert Plant was in a wheelchair recovering from a car crash, and the one with almost no keyboards or acoustic guitar on it. And In Through the Out Door, the final studio album released in John Bonham's lifetime, originally issued inside a plain brown paper bag over one of six different sleeve variants.

Lot: 80 - 5 Led Zeppelin / The Firm LPs, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin IV, III, II

5 Led Zeppelin / The Firm LPs, Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin IV, III, II Five LPs from Led Zeppelin and its afterlife. Physical Graffiti on Swan Song, the 1975 double album with the die-cut tenement sleeve, home to "Kashmir." The untitled fourth album — the one with no words anywhere on the cover, containing "Stairway to Heaven." Led Zeppelin III, the record where the band retreated to a Welsh cottage and came back with acoustic material, complete with its rotating volvelle sleeve. Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic SD 8236). And The Firm's Mean Business, Jimmy Page's mid-1980s band with Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company. A compact way into the catalogue's most collected titles.

Lot: 81 - 9 Pink Floyd / David Gilmour LPs, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Ummagumma

9 Pink Floyd / David Gilmour LPs, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Ummagumma Nine Pink Floyd and David Gilmour LPs. Two copies of The Dark Side of the Moon, the album that spent more than fourteen years on the Billboard chart. The Wall; Wish You Were Here, written around the absence of Syd Barrett; Meddle, the 1971 record whose second side is the twenty-three-minute "Echoes"; Ummagumma on Harvest, half live and half solo compositions, one side per member; The Final Cut, effectively Roger Waters's last Floyd album; and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the first without him. Plus David Gilmour's About Face on Columbia, recorded with Pino Palladino and Jeff Porcaro and featuring lyrics by Pete Townshend.

Lot: 82 - 6 Grateful Dead LPs, Europe '72, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Kingfish

6 Grateful Dead LPs, Europe '72, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, Kingfish Six LPs from the Grateful Dead and its extended family. Europe '72, the triple album assembled from twenty-two shows on the band's first full European tour and the last record with Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. Skeletons from the Closet on Warner Bros., the compilation that served as most listeners' entry point. Jerry Garcia's Reflections on United Artists. Kingfish, the band Bob Weir joined during a Dead hiatus. And a Fantasy album pairing Merl Saunders with Garcia and Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival — the loose organ-and-guitar bar-band records Garcia made when he wanted to play covers rather than lead a phenomenon.

Lot: 83 - 6 Grateful Dead LPs, Workingman's Dead, Terrapin Station, Skull & Roses

6 Grateful Dead LPs, Workingman's Dead, Terrapin Station, Skull & Roses Six Grateful Dead albums covering the band's most-collected decade. Workingman's Dead, the 1970 record where they abandoned extended psychedelia for close-harmony Americana and produced "Uncle John's Band" and "Casey Jones." Grateful Dead, the 1971 live double universally known as Skull & Roses after its Edmund Sullivan cover art. Europe '72. Terrapin Station, produced by Keith Olsen with an orchestral arrangement on the title suite. Shakedown Street, produced by Lowell George of Little Feat. And What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, the two-record retrospective. Between them these cover both the studio songwriting peak and the live reputation the band was actually built on.

Lot: 84 - 9 Beach Boys LPs, Surfin' Safari, Surfer Girl, Sunflower, Wild Honey

9 Beach Boys LPs, Surfin' Safari, Surfer Girl, Sunflower, Wild Honey Nine Beach Boys LPs running from the beginning to the underrated 1970s. Surfin' Safari, their 1962 debut, here in Duophonic; Surfer Girl, the first album Brian Wilson produced entirely himself at twenty-one; Surfin' USA; Shut Down Volume 2 (Capitol DHD 706), which contains "Don't Worry Baby" and "Fun, Fun, Fun"; Beach Boys' Party!, the staged living-room session that produced their "Barbara Ann"; and Beach Boys Concert, their first live album and first US number one. From later years: Wild Honey, the deliberately rough soul-inflected record made after Smile collapsed; Sunflower, now widely reckoned their best post-Pet Sounds album; and Love You.

Lot: 85 - 7 sealed LPs, Branford Marsalis, Walter Wanderley Trio, Don Gibson

7 sealed LPs, Branford Marsalis, Walter Wanderley Trio, Don Gibson Seven sealed albums, each still in original packaging and presenting as mint. Branford Marsalis's Royal Garden Blues, the saxophonist's second album as a leader. The Walter Wanderley Trio's Cheganca on Verve (V6-8676), from the Brazilian organist whose "Summer Samba" defined a certain kind of 1960s lounge-bossa sound. The Buck Creek Jazz Band, a traditional-jazz outfit. Don Gibson's Am I That Easy to Forget, from the country songwriter who wrote "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Sweet Dreams." The Blue Ridge Quartet's Let's All Go Down to the River, southern gospel. Daryl Hall & John Oates's Past Times Behind. And a white-label twelve-inch, Honee Bunn's Filthy Rich.

Lot: 86 - 10 sealed LPs, Gang Starr, Randy Travis, Diana Ross, Olivia Newton-John

10 sealed LPs, Gang Starr, Randy Travis, Diana Ross, Olivia Newton-John Ten sealed albums in original shrink. Gang Starr's Code of the Streets twelve-inch, from the Guru and DJ Premier duo who are among the most influential acts in New York hip-hop. Randy Travis's Storms of Life, the 1986 debut credited with launching the neo-traditionalist country movement. Diana Ross's To Love Again; Olivia Newton-John's Soul Kiss; the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack, home of Donna Summer's "Last Dance"; The Grass Roots' More Golden Grass; Daryl Hall & John Oates's Past Times Behind; the Honee Bunn twelve-inch; and two copies of Slim Goodbody Presents The Inside Story, the children's health record from the PBS performer in the anatomy bodysuit.

Lot: 87 - 13 LPs, signed Bill Cosby and Jimmy Velvet sleeves, Jean-Luc Ponty

13 LPs, signed Bill Cosby and Jimmy Velvet sleeves, Jean-Luc Ponty Thirteen albums, two of them signed. Jimmy Velvet Sings A Touch of Velvet carries the singer's signature — Velvet being a performer and Elvis associate who later founded the Elvis Presley Museum. The Bill Cosby comedy album "Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand" is also signed. The remainder is a mixed 1970s and 80s group: Jean-Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger on Atlantic, from the French violinist who played with Frank Zappa and the Mahavishnu Orchestra; Jeff Lorber's Lift Off; Change's The Glow of Love; Peter Noone's One of the Glory Boys, the Herman's Hermits singer solo; Ray, Goodman & Brown; Jane Olivor; Ray Wylie Hubbard; The O'Kanes; Robert Ellis Orrall; and Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion's Wassaic Way.

Lot: 88 - 9 LPs and 12” singles, Michael Jackson Thriller, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie

9 LPs and 12" singles, Michael Jackson Thriller, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie Nine albums and twelve-inch singles from the 1980s. Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album in history. Lionel Richie's self-titled solo debut. USA for Africa's We Are the World. Chaka Khan's I Feel for You twelve-inch, the Prince-written track built on Melle Mel's rap and Stevie Wonder's harmonica. Eddy Grant's Going for Broke; the Fat Boys and Beach Boys' Wipeout! twelve-inch; Sheena Easton's extended The Lover in Me; Full Force's Friends B4 Lovers; and Toshi Reagon's Justice, the singer-guitarist daughter of Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey in the Rock. A club-and-chart lot rather than an album-rock one.

Lot: 89 - 13 LPs, Bonnie Raitt, Genesis, Moody Blues, Dixie Dregs, Gordon Lightfoot

13 LPs, Bonnie Raitt, Genesis, Moody Blues, Dixie Dregs, Gordon Lightfoot Thirteen LPs across rock, folk and jazz-fusion. Bonnie Raitt's Give It Up, the 1972 album recorded in Woodstock that most listeners still name as her best. Genesis's ...And Then There Were Three..., the first album after Steve Hackett left and the trio lineup began. The Moody Blues' The Present. Allan Holdsworth with I.O.U. on Metal Fatigue, from the guitarist Eddie Van Halen repeatedly called his favourite player. The Dixie Dregs' Dregs of the Earth. Also here: The Best of Gordon Lightfoot, Patti Austin live at the Bottom Line on CTI, two Johnny Rivers albums, Tom Jones, Tim Weisberg, Don McLean, Firefall's Luna Sea, and The Best of Cugat.

Lot: 90 - 26 LPs, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Doris Day, Henry Mancini, Ronnie Milsap

26 LPs, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Doris Day, Henry Mancini, Ronnie Milsap Twenty-six albums weighted toward classic country and mid-century pop. Ray Price appears on six records, including a Columbia radio-station copy of Burning Memories, The Lonesomest Lonesome and Heart to Pieces — Price being the man whose shuffle beat became the template for honky-tonk and who later moved to lush Nashville-Sound orchestration. Connie Smith appears four times, including Cute 'n' Country (RCA LSP-3444) and Sings Great Sacred Songs. Also here: two Doris Day albums, Ronnie Milsap, Sonny James, Kenny Rogers & Dottie West, Andy Williams, Vikki Carr, Roger Whittaker, Lynn Anderson, Pete Fountain, Ray Conniff, Billy Butterfield, The Versatile Henry Mancini, and soundtracks to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and American Gigolo.

Lot: 91 - 12 country LPs, Emmylou Harris, Ray Charles, Tammy Wynette, David Allan Coe

12 country LPs, Emmylou Harris, Ray Charles, Tammy Wynette, David Allan Coe Twelve country LPs including several genuine landmarks. Ray Charles's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (ABC 410), the 1962 album on which a Black R&B singer recorded country standards with strings and changed what both genres were allowed to be. Three Emmylou Harris albums: Blue Kentucky Girl, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town, and The Ballad of Sally Rose, her self-written song cycle. David Allan Coe's Once Upon a Rhyme, from the outlaw songwriter who wrote "Take This Job and Shove It." Also here: Tammy Wynette's The First Lady, Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits Vol. II, Conway Twitty, Joe Tex's Soul Country on Atlantic, Janie Fricke, Bonnie Raitt's Takin My Time, and a Big Men of Country compilation.

Lot: 92 - 10 Johnny Cash LPs, 4 Sun pressings, At San Quentin, Greatest!

10 Johnny Cash LPs, 4 Sun pressings, At San Quentin, Greatest! Ten Johnny Cash albums with an unusually strong Sun Records component: Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (SLP 1235) in two copies, Now Here's Johnny Cash (SLP 1255), Greatest! (SLP 1240) and Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams — these being the Memphis recordings made with the Tennessee Two before he left Sam Phillips for Columbia. From the Columbia years: At San Quentin, recorded live in the prison in 1969 and containing "A Boy Named Sue"; Everybody Loves a Nut; The Christmas Spirit; and the two-record World of Johnny Cash. Also Original Golden Hits Volume I with the Tennessee Two. A serious lot for a Cash or a Sun collector.

Lot: 93 - 7 country/folk LPs, 3 John Prine, Leo Kottke, Dave Van Ronk

7 country/folk LPs, 3 John Prine, Leo Kottke, Dave Van Ronk Seven country and folk LPs. Three John Prine albums, including his 1971 self-titled Atlantic debut — the record with "Angel from Montgomery," "Sam Stone" and "Hello in There," written while he was a Chicago mailman, and the one Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan both championed on the spot — plus Diamonds in the Rough and Pink Cadillac, the latter recorded at Sun Studio with Sam Phillips producing two tracks. Two Leo Kottke albums on Capitol, My Feet Are Smiling and Chewing Pine, from the twelve-string guitarist whose playing owed as much to Mississippi John Hurt as to folk revival. Also Dave Van Ronk's Folksinger on Prestige, from the Greenwich Village figure who taught Dylan how to arrange "House of the Rising Sun," and a Russian record by Zhanna Bichevskaya.

Lot: 94 - 18 soul/disco/jazz LPs, Four Tops, Stax/Volt Revue, Ella Fitzgerald

18 soul/disco/jazz LPs, Four Tops, Stax/Volt Revue, Ella Fitzgerald Eighteen albums across soul, disco and jazz. The Stax/Volt Revue Volume 2: Live in Paris documents the 1967 European tour that introduced Memphis soul to Europe. Three Four Tops records including the Motown Superstar Series and On Top. Two Richie Havens albums, among them Mixed Bag on Verve Forecast, the 1967 debut that led to his opening set at Woodstock. Ella Fitzgerald with Frank DeVol's orchestra on Like Someone in Love. Jimmie Lunceford's Harlem Shout, documenting one of the sharpest big bands of the 1930s. Also here: Lionel Richie, Commodores' Movin' On, two Al Jarreau albums, George Benson, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Shalamar, Papa John Creach, Twist with Chubby Checker, and a Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam twelve-inch.

Lot: 95 - 14 LPs, Buffalo Springfield, What's Shakin' with Clapton, Dave Mason

14 LPs, Buffalo Springfield, What's Shakin' with Clapton, Dave Mason Fourteen albums with several records collectors specifically look for. What's Shakin' on Elektra is the compilation containing four tracks by Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse — a one-off studio group with Steve Winwood and Jack Bruce — alongside the Lovin' Spoonful, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Tom Rush and Al Kooper. Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield (Atco SD 33-283) collects the band that held Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay simultaneously. Two Dave Mason albums, Headkeeper on Blue Thumb and It's Like You Never Left. Also: Stephen Stills 2, The Honeydrippers Volume One with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, War's Why Can't We Be Friends?, Leon Redbone's On the Track, Tomita's synthesizer Pictures at an Exhibition, Three Dog Night, Poco and America.

Lot: 96 - 10 jazz funk/fusion LPs, 4 Crusaders, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Carlton

10 jazz funk/fusion LPs, 4 Crusaders, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Carlton Ten albums of jazz-funk, fusion and crossover. Four Crusaders records — The Best of the Crusaders, Those Southern Knights, Free as the Wind and Images — from the Houston group whose Wilton Felder, Joe Sample and Stix Hooper defined a whole strain of instrumental soul-jazz. Mahavishnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond, from the second lineup of John McLaughlin's band. Two Larry Carlton albums, Sleepwalk and Last Nite, from the session guitarist who played the solos on Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" and Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark. Milt Jackson with Hubert Laws on Goodbye (CTI 6038). Plus War's Deliver the Word and the Bay City Rollers' It's a Game.

Lot: 97 - 5 hair metal LPs, Stryper, Autograph, Vinnie Moore, Y&T, Angel

5 hair metal LPs, Stryper, Autograph, Vinnie Moore, Y&T, Angel Five hard rock and metal LPs from the mid-1980s. Stryper's To Hell with the Devil, the yellow-and-black Christian metal band's platinum album and the first of its kind to reach that level. Autograph's Loud and Clear, from the Los Angeles band who had a hit with "Turn Up the Radio." Vinnie Moore's Mind's Eye, one of the defining neoclassical shred guitar albums of the Shrapnel Records era. Angel's On Earth as It Is in Heaven, Casablanca's all-white-costumed answer to KISS. And Y&T's Open Fire, a live record from the Bay Area band who never quite broke through despite being reliably better than their sales suggested.

Lot: 98 - 8 LPs, George Harrison All Things Must Pass box, Springsteen, Donovan

8 LPs, George Harrison All Things Must Pass box, Springsteen, Donovan Eight albums, several of them significant. George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, the three-record box he released in 1970 after a decade of having two songs per Beatles album, produced by Phil Spector. Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, the 1973 album that made almost no commercial impact and is now regarded as one of his finest. Them featuring Here Comes the Night in mono, the Belfast group fronted by a young Van Morrison. The Rolling Stones' Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) on London in mono. Donovan's A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, an Epic two-record box. Also Harry Chapin's Verities & Balderdash, Leo Kottke's Circle Round the Sun on Symposium, and The Youngbloods.

Lot: 99 - 11 1980s pop/rock LPs, U2, Madonna, 10,000 Maniacs, Rush, Sun City

11 1980s pop/rock LPs, U2, Madonna, 10,000 Maniacs, Rush, Sun City Eleven 1980s pop and rock albums. Two U2 records, October and the Wide Awake in America EP, which contains the extended live "Bad" that became the band's calling card. Madonna's True Blue plus the Causing a Commotion twelve-inch. 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, the album that brought Natalie Merchant to a wide audience. Rush's Grace Under Pressure. Artists United Against Apartheid's Sun City, Steven Van Zandt's protest record featuring Springsteen, Miles Davis, Run-DMC, Bono and Lou Reed together. Also here: The B-52's Rock Lobster EP, Be Bop Deluxe's Live! In the Air Age, The Hooters' One Way Home and Robbie Nevil's debut.

Lot: 100 - Funkadelic – The Best of the Early Years Volume One, 1974, promotional copy

Funkadelic – The Best of the Early Years Volume One, 1974, promotional copy Funkadelic - The Best of the Early Years Volume One, 1974, promotional copy

Lot: 101 - 8 rock LPs, Blind Faith, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Guns N' Roses, Ramones

8 rock LPs, Blind Faith, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Guns N' Roses, Ramones Eight rock records that trace a fairly direct line from the invention of heavy music to its commercial peak. Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum on Philips is the 1968 San Francisco power trio's debut — three men, enormous amplification, a hit version of "Summertime Blues," and a record routinely nominated as the first heavy metal album. Vanilla Fudge's self-titled Atco debut (33-224) got there from another direction, slowing pop songs to a crawl until "You Keep Me Hangin' On" became something closer to doom. Black Sabbath's Paranoid, with "War Pigs" and "Iron Man," settled the argument. Blind Faith is the one-album supergroup of Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech. Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction remains the best-selling debut album in American history. Also here: Supertramp's Indelibly Stamped, their 1971 second album with the tattooed-torso sleeve, made three years before Crime of the Century; a W.A.S.P. "Blind in Texas" twelve-inch; and a blue-vinyl Ramones EP.

Lot: 102 - 8 reggae/funk/soul LPs, 3 Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Gil Scott-Heron

8 reggae/funk/soul LPs, 3 Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Gil Scott-Heron Eight albums of reggae, soul and funk with an unusually strong political thread. Three Bob Marley & The Wailers records — Natty Dread, the first album credited to the new lineup after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left; Exodus, named by Time magazine the album of the twentieth century, recorded in London after Marley was shot; and Kaya. Plus Rita Marley's One Draw twelve-inch. Two Nina Simone albums, 'Nuff Said! on RCA — recorded three days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. — and Nina Simone at Town Hall on Colpix. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's From South Africa to South Carolina, containing "Johannesburg." And Sly & The Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On.

Lot: 103 - 5 hiphop/funk/dance records, The Lox, Queen & Wyclef, Instant Funk

5 hiphop/funk/dance records, The Lox, Queen & Wyclef, Instant Funk Five albums and twelve-inch singles across hip-hop, funk and dance. A promotional twelve-inch from The Lox, the Yonkers trio of Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch who moved from Bad Boy to Ruff Ryders. Queen and Wyclef Jean's reworking of "Another One Bites the Dust" with Pras and Canibus, from the Small Soldiers soundtrack. Instant Funk, the Philadelphia group behind "I Got My Mind Made Up," produced by Bunny Sigler. C+C Music Factory's Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... remixes on Columbia. And James Pants's Welcome on Stones Throw, the Los Angeles label built around Madlib and J Dilla.

Lot: 104 - 5 Elvis and Johnny Cash records, Sun LP-1220, Elvis' Christmas Album

5 Elvis and Johnny Cash records, Sun LP-1220, Elvis' Christmas Album Five records split between the two biggest names to come out of Sun Studio. Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar (Sun LP-1220) is his first album and the first LP Sun Records ever released, collecting the Memphis singles that made him. From Elvis Presley: two copies of Elvis' Christmas Album (RCA LSP-1951(e)), the record that became the best-selling Christmas album in the United States; the seven-inch EP Christmas With Elvis (RCA EPA-4340); and Moody Blue, released weeks before his death in 1977 and originally pressed on blue vinyl. Condition varies; inspect before bidding.

Lot: 105 - 15 classic rock LPs, Todd Rundgren, Mountain, Vanilla Fudge, James Taylor

15 classic rock LPs, Todd Rundgren, Mountain, Vanilla Fudge, James Taylor Fifteen classic rock LPs. Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything?, the 1972 double album on which he played and sang almost everything himself across three of its four sides. James Taylor and the Flying Machine's 1967 on Euphoria, the pre-fame recordings released after he became famous. Two Mountain records, The Best of Mountain and Flowers of Evil on Windfall, from Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi's band. Vanilla Fudge's The Beat Goes On. 10cc's The Original Soundtrack, home of "I'm Not in Love" and its wall of tape-looped voices. Also: Joe Walsh's So What, Al Stewart's Time Passages, Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners, Dan Fogelberg's Phoenix, the Dixie Dregs, Head East, and a Columbia sampler.

Lot: 106 - 12 LPs, Terence Trent D'Arby, Circle Jerks, Zapp III, Lindsey Buckingham

12 LPs, Terence Trent D'Arby, Circle Jerks, Zapp III, Lindsey Buckingham Twelve albums with an unusually wide spread. Terence Trent D'Arby's Introducing the Hardline, the 1987 debut that sold a million copies in three days in the UK. Circle Jerks' Wönderful, from the Los Angeles hardcore band formed by Keith Morris after he left Black Flag. Zapp III, from Roger Troutman's talk-box funk group whose sound became the backbone of West Coast hip-hop. Lindsey Buckingham's Law and Order, made between Fleetwood Mac albums. Guru's Baldhead Slick & da Click. Also here: Ric Ocasek's Beatitude, Romeo Void's Instincts, Be-Bop Deluxe's Sunburst Finish, Mother's Finest's Mother Factor, Amy Grant's Unguarded, BoDeans, and The Red Clay Ramblers' Merchants Lunch.

Lot: 107 - 13 soundtrack/children's LPs, Star Wars, The Hobbit, The Graduate

13 soundtrack/children's LPs, Star Wars, The Hobbit, The Graduate Thirteen soundtracks, novelty and children's records. The Hobbit, the complete original soundtrack to the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film, issued by Buena Vista as a deluxe two-record set with book. The Star Wars original soundtrack double album, John Williams's score with the London Symphony Orchestra. The Graduate on Columbia, half Simon & Garfunkel songs and half Dave Grusin score. Jonzun Crew's Lost in Space on Tommy Boy, one of the foundational electro records. Also: Baja Marimba Band Rides Again on A&M, Chipmunk Rock, Cabbage Patch Dreams on Parker Brothers, Fonzie Favorites, Greatest Yiddish Hits No. 2, Songs of the Civil War, Jim Nabors, Liberace, and a K-tel hits compilation.

Lot: 108 - 18 jazz LPs, Ellington and Basie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Milt Jackson

18 jazz LPs, Ellington and Basie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Milt Jackson Eighteen jazz albums, strong on the 1960s and 70s. First Time! The Count Meets the Duke on Columbia is the only studio meeting of the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, both bands playing together in one room. The Modern Jazz Quartet's In Memoriam with symphony orchestra under Maurice Peress. Milt Jackson's "Ain't But a Few of Us Left" on Pablo with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Grady Tate. Two Donald Byrd records including Caricatures, and two Earl Klugh guitar albums. Brothers and Other Mothers gathers Savoy sessions by Stan Getz, Al Cohn and Serge Chaloff. Also: Oscar Peterson's Girl Talk, Kenny Burrell with Grover Washington Jr., The Great Jazz Trio, Willie Hutch, Ben E. King, Vernon Burch and The Best of Chess Jazz.

Lot: 109 - 10 vocal jazz/soul LPs, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson

10 vocal jazz/soul LPs, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson Ten albums of vocal jazz, gospel and soul, centred on four of the greatest singers America produced. Billie Holiday appears twice, including Strange Fruit on Atlantic — named for the anti-lynching song she premiered at Café Society in 1939 and which Columbia refused to record. Ella Fitzgerald three times, including Sings the Gershwin Song Book Vol. 2 with Nelson Riddle arrangements, from the songbook series that reshaped how the American standard was understood. Mahalia Jackson twice, including a white-label mono promotional copy of Newport 1958 (Columbia CL 1244). Plus Etta James on Chess, Aretha Franklin's Queen of Soul, and Diana Ross's Lady Sings the Blues soundtrack, in which she plays Holiday.

Lot: 110 - 11 jazz LPs, Bobby Hutcherson, Keith Jarrett, Freddie Hubbard, Ellington

11 jazz LPs, Bobby Hutcherson, Keith Jarrett, Freddie Hubbard, Ellington Eleven jazz LPs weighted toward Blue Note and CTI in their prime. Bobby Hutcherson's San Francisco on Blue Note, the vibraphonist's quartet with tenor player Harold Land. Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life on CTI, with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and George Benson. Duke Ellington and Ray Brown's This One's for Blanton on Pablo, a duo tribute to Jimmy Blanton, the bassist who transformed the instrument's role before dying at twenty-three. Keith Jarrett's Shades. Bob James's Three with Grover Washington Jr. Also: Sonny Rollins, Les McCann's The Man on A&M, The Ramsey Lewis Trio's Bach to the Blues, Blue Mitchell, the Tim Weisberg Band, and a Black Lion session by Ellington sidemen Paul Gonsalves and Ray Nance.

Lot: 111 - 7 jazz LPs, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Ellington

7 jazz LPs, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Ellington Seven jazz LPs. The Oscar Peterson Trio's Night Train (Verve V6-8538), the pianist's best-known album, cut in a single December 1962 session with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. The Essential Charlie Parker on Verve, from the alto saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented bebop. Duke Ellington's Ellington Indigos on Columbia, the ballads album with "Mood Indigo" and "Solitude." Cannonball Adderley Live! Al Grey's Basic Grey, from the trombonist who spent years in the Basie band. Plus Buddy Miles's We Got to Live Together — the drummer from Band of Gypsys — and Roachford, the British soul-rock group. A short lot but a solid one.

Lot: 112 - Japanese and Korean LPs, Koto Music of Japan, Joo Hyun-mi

Japanese and Korean LPs, Koto Music of Japan, Joo Hyun-mi Three albums of East Asian popular and traditional music, uncommon in American collections. Koto Music of Japan features the thirteen-stringed zither that has been the central Japanese solo instrument for four centuries. Joo Hyun-mi's first volume (??? 1) comes from one of South Korea's most successful trot singers — trot being the country's oldest surviving popular form, a blend of Korean melody with early twentieth-century Japanese and Western influence. The third is a Jitterbug Collection (??? ??), a Korean dance-music compilation. Records like these were pressed for domestic markets and rarely exported, which makes them scarce here regardless of their commercial profile at home.

Lot: 113 - 15 jazz LPs, Ahmad Jamal, Clifford Brown with Strings, Newport in New York '72

15 jazz LPs, Ahmad Jamal, Clifford Brown with Strings, Newport in New York '72 Fifteen jazz LPs. Two copies of the Ahmad Jamal Trio's At the Pershing: But Not for Me (Argo LP-628) — the 1958 Chicago club recording that stayed on the charts for more than two years and contains "Poinciana." Clifford Brown with Strings (EmArcy MG-36005), the trumpeter in a ballad setting shortly before his death. Three volumes of the Newport in New York '72 jam sessions on Atlantic. Two Maynard Ferguson albums including M.F. Horn Two. Two Ramsey Lewis records. Also: Stanley Turrentine's Tender Togetherness, Ray Bryant's Con Alma, Josh White's The Beginning Vol. 2 on Mercury, The Legendary Sidney Bechet, and a Jazz West Coast anthology.

Lot: 114 - 4 jazz LPs and 3 LP box set, Duke Ellington 1957, Jazz Odyssey New Orleans

4 jazz LPs and 3 LP box set, Duke Ellington 1957, Jazz Odyssey New Orleans Four jazz albums plus a three-record box set. Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder (Columbia CL 1033), an original 1957 pressing of the twelve-part Shakespeare suite Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote for the Stratford Festival — one of the most admired extended works in his catalogue. Jazz Odyssey Volume 1: The Sound of New Orleans 1917–1947, the Columbia three-LP box tracing the music from its origins. The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Gone with the Wind (Columbia CS 8156), the Southern-songs album recorded immediately before Time Out. Herbie Mann's Brazil, Bossa Nova & Blues on United Artists Jazz. And Boots Randolph's The Sound of Boots on Monument, from the Nashville saxophonist behind "Yakety Sax."

Lot: 115 - 10 jazz/pop LPs, Roberta Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Ahmad Jamal, Art Tatum

10 jazz/pop LPs, Roberta Flack, Sarah Vaughan, Ahmad Jamal, Art Tatum Ten albums across jazz and pop vocal. Roberta Flack's First Take (Atlantic SD 8230), her 1969 debut, which sat quietly for three years until Clint Eastwood used "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in Play Misty for Me and sent it to number one. Sarah Vaughan's No Count Sarah on Mercury, recorded with the Count Basie band but without Basie himself for contractual reasons. Ahmad Jamal's At the Pershing on Cadet. Chris Connor's I Miss You So (Atlantic 8014). Also here: Duke Ellington 1928–1933 on Archive of Jazz, an Italian Art Tatum anthology, Richard "Groove" Holmes's Misty, Jean-Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger, The Best of Chad Mitchell Trio, and Bernadette Peters's Now Playing.

Lot: 116 - 7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Nefertiti 1968, Getz/Gilberto #2, Jimmy Smith

7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Nefertiti 1968, Getz/Gilberto #2, Jimmy Smith Seven jazz LPs. Miles Davis's Nefertiti (Columbia CS 9594), an original 1968 pressing of the last wholly acoustic album by the second great quintet — Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams — and the record whose title track famously reverses the usual roles, with the horns repeating the melody while the drums improvise. Getz/Gilberto #2, recorded live at Carnegie Hall. The Incredible Jimmy Smith's "Bucket"! (Blue Note 4235). Donald Byrd's I'm Tryin' to Get Home on Blue Note, the brass-choir album arranged by Duke Pearson. Plus Yusef Lateef, Deodato's 2001 and The Ramsey Lewis Trio's Hang On Ramsey!

Lot: 117 - 24 1950s/60s pop and rock LPs, 4 Chuck Berry, 6 Peter Paul & Mary

24 1950s/60s pop and rock LPs, 4 Chuck Berry, 6 Peter Paul & Mary Twenty-four albums of 1950s and 60s pop and rock. Chuck Berry appears four times, including Two Great Guitars (Checker 2991), his instrumental summit with Bo Diddley, plus Golden Decade Vol. 2 and San Francisco Dues. Peter, Paul and Mary appear six times — In Concert, Album 1700, See What Tomorrow Brings, two copies of A Song Will Rise, and a Peter Yarrow solo album — from the trio who took "Blowin' in the Wind" into the charts a year before most Americans had heard of Dylan. Also here: Roy Orbison's Very Best on Monument, Buddy Holly and The Crickets' 20 Golden Greats, two Platters compilations, Brenda Lee, The Everly Brothers, The Ventures, The Monkees, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, The 4 Seasons and The Hondells.

Lot: 118 - 55 LPs, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Peter Paul & Mary, Bobby Darin

55 LPs, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Peter Paul & Mary, Bobby Darin Fifty-five albums, a broad mid-century sweep across pop vocal, easy listening, country and light classical. Ray Charles's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Vol. Two. Two Nat King Cole albums including The Nat King Cole Story Vol. 1. Peter, Paul and Mary's Album 1700, home of "Leaving on a Jet Plane." Bobby Darin twice, That's All and The Versatile Bobby Darin. Presenting Dion and the Belmonts on Laurie. Scott Joplin's The Red Back Book, played by the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble under Gunther Schuller — the record that launched the 1970s ragtime revival. Also: four Ray Price records, two Kenny Rogers, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee's I Like Men!, two Doris Day, two Vic Damone, The Mills Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert, Benny Goodman, Manfred Mann, The Crew Cuts, Chet Atkins, two Bing Crosby sing-alongs, Kiri Te Kanawa and Jackie Gleason.

Lot: 119 - 27 LPs, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Santana, The Drifters, Four Tops

27 LPs, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Santana, The Drifters, Four Tops Twenty-seven albums, mostly 1960s pop, soul and rock. Big Brother & the Holding Company's Mainstream debut, the album Janis Joplin made before Cheap Thrills and which the label released without the band's approval. Santana's Borboletta, with Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. Weather Report's Mr. Gone. The Dave Clark Five's 5 by 5 on Epic. Two Drifters compilations, Golden Hits on Atlantic and Greatest Hits. Jackie Wilson's My Golden Favorites on Brunswick. The Four Tops' Greatest Hits on Motown. Also: Jan & Dean's Dead Man's Curve, Bobby Hebb's Sunny, The Righteous Brothers, The 4 Seasons, Jackie DeShannon (two copies), Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Dinah Shore, Peaches & Herb, Marty Robbins, Diana Ross and a Flemish harpsichord recital.

Lot: 120 - 27 LPs, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Trapezoid, Crystal Gayle

27 LPs, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Trapezoid, Crystal Gayle Twenty-seven albums, mainly country with pockets of soul, folk and private-press oddity. Waylon Jennings's Ol' Waylon (RCA APL1-2317), the outlaw-era album containing "Luckenbach, Texas." Hank Williams Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation on All for the Love of Sunshine. Jerry Reed's East Bound and Down. Roy Clark's Greatest Hits. Two albums by Trapezoid, the Appalachian hammered-dulcimer ensemble. Also: Crystal Gayle, The Kendalls, Oak Ridge Boys, Earl Thomas Conley, Barry Manilow, Nicolette Larson, Sniff 'n' the Tears' Fickle Heart, Timmy Thomas's Why Can't We Live Together on Glades, Brainstorm's Funky Entertainment, The Gants on Liberty, the St-Croix Philharmonic Steel Orchestra, and Lawrence Welk presents Pete Fountain. Several small-label and regional pressings in the mix.

Lot: 121 - 11 Beatles LPs, Introducing the Beatles Vee-Jay, Rubber Soul, Meet the Beatles

11 Beatles LPs, Introducing the Beatles Vee-Jay, Rubber Soul, Meet the Beatles Eleven Beatles and solo albums including several of the American pressings collectors chase. Introducing... The Beatles on Vee-Jay, the small Chicago label that issued the band in the United States before Capitol would touch them, and which was tied up in litigation almost immediately. The Beatles' Second Album in both mono (Capitol T 2080) and stereo (ST 2080). Rubber Soul (Capitol ST 2442) and Meet the Beatles! (Capitol T 2047). Plus Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Let It Be on Apple, the Help! soundtrack, the red 1962–1966 double, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass three-record box, and Wings' Venus and Mars.

Lot: 122 - 10 Beatles solo LPs, Band on the Run, Concert for Bangla Desh, Shaved Fish

10 Beatles solo LPs, Band on the Run, Concert for Bangla Desh, Shaved Fish Ten albums from the Beatles' solo careers and their orbit. Paul McCartney & Wings' Band on the Run, recorded in Lagos after two band members quit on the eve of the trip, and the album that re-established McCartney as a force. The Concert for Bangla Desh box, George Harrison's 1971 Madison Square Garden benefit with Dylan, Clapton and Ravi Shankar — the first all-star charity concert of its kind. John Lennon's Shaved Fish, the only singles compilation issued in his lifetime. Also here: All Things Must Pass, Harrison's self-titled 1979 album, Wings Over America, Julian Lennon's The Secret Value of Daydreaming, Every Man Has a Woman, and the All This and World War II and Sgt. Pepper film soundtracks.

Lot: 123 - 4 Beatles LPs, UK Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour with book, Sgt. Pepper

4 Beatles LPs, UK Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour with book, Sgt. Pepper Four Beatles albums including a British pressing. Revolver on UK Parlophone (PCS 7009) — the British edition carries fourteen tracks rather than the eleven Capitol left on the American release, restoring the three John Lennon songs Capitol removed. Magical Mystery Tour complete with its twenty-four-page book, the American album that assembled the film's songs with the year's singles and which the UK only issued as a double EP. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. And Yellow Submarine, half Beatles songs and half George Martin's orchestral score. A compact lot centred on the band's 1966–68 peak.

Lot: 124 - 2 Beatles White Album copies, 1995 reissue sealed, 1976 Japanese reissue

2 Beatles White Album copies, 1995 reissue sealed, 1976 Japanese reissue This collectible item consists of two copies of The Beatles' 'The White Album'. One is a 1995 reissue still sealed, and the other is a 1976 Japanese reissue. The Japanese version includes an obi strip and is numbered, indicating a limited edition. The albums are in good condition, with the 1995 version still in its original shrink wrap.

Lot: 125 - 23 funk/soul LPs, Isaac Hayes, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Commodores

23 funk/soul LPs, Isaac Hayes, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Commodores Twenty-three funk and soul albums. Isaac Hayes's Hot Buttered Soul, the 1969 record with only four tracks — including the twelve-minute "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" — that saved Stax after it lost the Atlantic catalogue and rewrote what a soul album could be. Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, the raw club recording RCA shelved for twenty years because it did not match his polished crossover image. Also Isaac Hayes's For the Sake of Love, Stevie Wonder's In Square Circle, Commodores' Natural High, Ray Charles's Do the Twist!, Morris Day's Color of Success, The Manhattans, Mass Production, Shalamar, Whodini, The S.O.S. Band, The Salsoul Orchestra, Ike Turner's The Edge and Peaches & Herb.

Lot: 126 - 12 funk/soul LPs, 3 Johnny Guitar Watson, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Rick James

12 funk/soul LPs, 3 Johnny Guitar Watson, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Rick James Twelve funk and soul albums. Three Johnny Guitar Watson records — Funk Beyond the Call of Duty, Giant and A Real Mother for Ya's follow-ups — from the Texas guitarist who influenced Frank Zappa directly and whose 1970s funk records have been sampled repeatedly by Dr. Dre and Redman. The Jimmy Castor Bunch's It's Just Begun on RCA, whose title track is one of the most-used breakbeats in hip-hop and b-boy culture. Rick James's Throwin' Down. The Salsoul Orchestra's Nice 'n' Naasty. Also: Mass Production's Massterpiece, Black Heat on Atlantic, Spyro Gyra, a Janet Jackson twelve-inch, Mac Kissoon, a dance-instruction record, and the Hungarian rock group Locomotiv GT.

Lot: 127 - 14 funk/soul LPs, Sly & the Family Stone, Quincy Jones, Bootsy's Rubber Band

14 funk/soul LPs, Sly & the Family Stone, Quincy Jones, Bootsy's Rubber Band Fourteen funk and soul albums. Sly & the Family Stone's Greatest Hits on Epic, the compilation frequently called one of the best ever assembled, from the band that integrated rock and soul, black and white, men and women on one stage. Quincy Jones's You've Got It Bad Girl on A&M. Bootsy's Rubber Band's This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N, from the bassist who played with James Brown at nineteen before joining Parliament-Funkadelic. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Four in Blue on Tamla. Two B.T. Express albums. Also: Rick James's Bustin' Out of L Seven, The Stylistics, The Undisputed Truth, Natalie Cole's debut, Johnny Guitar Watson, The Edwin Hawkins Singers and Junior's Too Late.

Lot: 128 - 15 country/roots LPs, 3 Delbert McClinton, Seldom Scene, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

15 country/roots LPs, 3 Delbert McClinton, Seldom Scene, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Fifteen country, bluegrass and roots-rock albums. Three Delbert McClinton records, including The Jealous Kind — McClinton being the Texas singer who, by a much-repeated account, showed John Lennon some harmonica during a 1962 UK tour, and who later wrote "Two More Bottles of Wine." The Seldom Scene's Act 3 on Rebel, from the Washington DC bluegrass group who played the same club every Thursday for decades. Two Nitty Gritty Dirt Band albums including Twenty Years of Dirt. A Bushel of Five String Banjo gathers Flatt & Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers and Carl Story. Also: The Brothers Four, Willie and the Poor Boys, Fred Small, Michael Stanley Band, Toby Beau, Blue Ridge Country, and two small-label private pressings.

Lot: 129 - 3 KISS / Ace Frehley LPs, KISS debut, Alive II, Frehley's Comet

3 KISS / Ace Frehley LPs, KISS debut, Alive II, Frehley's Comet Three albums from KISS and its lead guitarist. KISS, the 1974 Casablanca debut that sold poorly on release and now stands as the foundation of everything that followed — "Strutter," "Deuce" and "Cold Gin" all present. Alive II, the 1977 double album that mixes live sides from the Love Gun tour with a fourth side of new studio material. And Frehley's Comet, Ace Frehley's 1987 band album on Megaforce, recorded after he left KISS and got sober, and the record that re-established him as a player rather than a costume. A tidy three-record run for a KISS Army buyer.

Lot: 130 - 17 classic rock LPs, Woodstock and Woodstock Two, Blind Faith, Robin Trower

17 classic rock LPs, Woodstock and Woodstock Two, Blind Faith, Robin Trower Seventeen classic rock albums. Both Woodstock sets on Cotillion — the original three-record album and Woodstock Two — together documenting the 1969 festival across five discs. Blind Faith on Atco, the Clapton and Winwood supergroup that lasted one album. Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs, the Procol Harum guitarist's Hendrix-shadowed 1974 record and his enduring statement. Fleetwood Mac's Mystery to Me, from the transitional Bob Welch era before Buckingham and Nicks. Journey's self-titled debut, still a jazz-inflected instrumental band before Steve Perry arrived. Also: The Edgar Winter Group, Peter Frampton's I'm in You, Don Henley, Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar's VOA, Eddie Money, War's Greatest Hits, Leo Kottke, B.J. Thomas and Silver Convention.

Lot: 131 - 15 LPs, Emerson Lake & Palmer, 4 Moody Blues, Genesis, Tommy James

15 LPs, Emerson Lake & Palmer, 4 Moody Blues, Genesis, Tommy James Fifteen albums with a strong progressive and psychedelic core. Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery, with the H. R. Giger sleeve — the album containing "Karn Evil 9" and their arrangement of Ginastera's piano concerto. Four Moody Blues records, including On the Threshold of a Dream on Deram and Seventh Sojourn. Genesis's A Trick of the Tail, the first after Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins stepped out from behind the drums. Tommy James & The Shondells' Crimson & Clover on Roulette. Also: The Guess Who's Canned Wheat, Al Kooper's Easy Does It, Cat Stevens's Back to Earth, Marvin Gaye's Dream of a Lifetime, ZZ Top, Chilliwack, Blood Sweat & Tears 3, and The Edgar Winter Group.

Lot: 132 - 6 LPs, 3 MFSB, Isaac Hayes Black Moses, The Crusaders, Johnny Cash

6 LPs, 3 MFSB, Isaac Hayes Black Moses, The Crusaders, Johnny Cash Six albums centred on Philadelphia soul. MFSB appears three times, including two copies of Love Is the Message — MFSB being the Philadelphia International house band, the roughly thirty players behind almost every Gamble and Huff hit, whose "TSOP" became the Soul Train theme and whose title track here is one of the founding records of disco. Isaac Hayes's Black Moses, the 1971 double album issued in a sleeve that unfolded into a six-foot poster of Hayes in robes. The Crusaders' The 2nd Crusade. And Johnny Cash's The Johnny Cash Show on Columbia, the album drawn from his ABC television series.

Lot: 133 - 14 LPs, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Santana, Steppenwolf, Bad Company

14 LPs, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Santana, Steppenwolf, Bad Company Fourteen albums, mainly 1970s rock. Jethro Tull's Stand Up on Reprise, the 1969 album with the die-cut pop-up gatefold and the first with Martin Barre on guitar. Santana's Inner Secrets. Stephen Stills's self-titled solo debut, which has Hendrix and Clapton both playing on it. Spooky Tooth's The Last Puff, featuring Mike Harrison. Brand X's Livestock, the jazz-rock group Phil Collins drummed for between Genesis albums. Steppenwolf's Slow Flux. The Honeydrippers Volume One. Also: Boz Scaggs & Band, Slade, Aldo Nova, Bad Company's Desolation Angels, Santa Esmeralda's disco House of the Rising Sun, and a Bobby Brown twelve-inch.

Lot: 134 - 16 LPs, Tower of Power, Leon Russell, Ten Years After, Toto, Tomita

16 LPs, Tower of Power, Leon Russell, Ten Years After, Toto, Tomita Sixteen albums across rock, soul and electronic. Tower of Power's In the Slot, from the Oakland band whose horn section has appeared on hundreds of other people's records. Leon Russell's Will O' the Wisp. Ten Years After's Watt on Deram, released months after Alvin Lee's Woodstock performance made them famous. Leslie West's Mountain on Windfall, the guitarist's solo album that effectively became the band. Tomita's Kosmos on RCA Red Seal, classical repertoire realised on Moog synthesizers. Manfred Mann's Earth Band's The Good Earth. Also: Chicago, Toto's Fahrenheit, Rod Stewart's Foot Loose & Fancy Free, Glen Campbell's Galveston, The Babys, Blondie, Kenny G, Nicolette Larson, John Travolta and The New Commander Cody Band.

Lot: 135 - 4 LPs, Allman Brothers Band first pressing, CSN, CSNY 4 Way Street

4 LPs, Allman Brothers Band first pressing, CSN, CSNY 4 Way Street Four albums. The Allman Brothers Band's self-titled 1969 debut on Atco is a first pressing with the yellow center label — the record that introduced Duane Allman's slide playing and the twin-lead format the whole southern rock genre took from it. The Road Goes On Forever, the two-record retrospective. Crosby, Stills & Nash's CSN, the 1977 reunion album with the boat cover, containing "Just a Song Before I Go" and Nash's "Cathedral." And Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 4 Way Street, the live double from the 1970 tour, with a full acoustic side of solo performances before the electric jams. First-pressing Allman debuts do not turn up often.

Lot: 136 - 8 LPs, Judas Priest British Steel, Lou Reed, Stephen Stills, Brand X

8 LPs, Judas Priest British Steel, Lou Reed, Stephen Stills, Brand X Eight albums. Judas Priest's British Steel, the 1980 album recorded at Tittenhurst Park — John Lennon's former house — that stripped the band down to "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight" and set the template for a decade of metal. Lou Reed's Mistrial. Stephen Stills's Illegal Stills on Columbia and Crosby, Stills & Nash's Replay. Eric Carmen's Arista debut, from the Raspberries singer who wrote "All by Myself" over a Rachmaninoff melody. The Romantics' In Heat, home of "Talking in Your Sleep." Brand X's Product. And the Against All Odds soundtrack, with the Phil Collins title song.

Lot: 137 - 8 LPs and box set, Smithsonian Classic Jazz 6 LP, Basil Rathbone reads Poe

8 LPs and box set, Smithsonian Classic Jazz 6 LP, Basil Rathbone reads Poe Eight albums including two substantial sets. The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz (P6 11891) is the six-record anthology assembled by Martin Williams that served for decades as the standard teaching survey of the music, from Scott Joplin to Ornette Coleman. Edgar Allan Poe Volume 3 read by Basil Rathbone — the definitive screen Sherlock Holmes performing The Telltale Heart, The Bells, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Haunted Palace. An ECM sampler drawing on Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Reich, Sam Rivers and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Plus Paul Motian Trio's Le Voyage on ECM, George Winston's Ballads and Blues 1972, a ragtime piano-roll record, Demis Roussos and Manuel Alejandro.

Lot: 138 - 12 soul/jazz LPs, Booker T & the MG's, 2 Al Green, King Curtis

12 soul/jazz LPs, Booker T & the MG's, 2 Al Green, King Curtis Twelve soul and jazz albums with a strong Memphis and Hi Records presence. Booker T. & The MG's Hip Hug-Her (Stax S 717), from the integrated house band who played on almost every Stax session while cutting their own instrumental hits. Two Al Green records, Livin' for You and The Complete Al Green greatest hits — Green and producer Willie Mitchell being the pair who defined 1970s Memphis soul. King Curtis's Soul Serenade on Capitol, the saxophonist behind the solo on "Yakety Yak" and Aretha Franklin's bandleader. Gladys Knight & The Pips' Everybody Needs Love on Soul. Also: Ahmad Jamal at the Penthouse, Billy Preston, Millie Jackson, The Whispers, Mel Carter, Jack Jones and The T-Bones.

Lot: 139 - 2 promotional LPs, Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights, Procol Harum – Procol's Ninth

2 promotional LPs, Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights, Procol Harum – Procol's Ninth This collectible item consists of two promotional LP records: 'Southern Nights' by Allen Toussaint and 'Procol's Ninth' by Procol Harum. Both records are marked as promotional copies, not for sale. The Allen Toussaint LP features vibrant cover art depicting a sunset scene, while the Procol Harum LP includes signatures from band members on the cover.

Lot: 140 - 31 classic rock LPs, 2 James Taylor, 3 Bad Company, Steely Dan, Woodstock Two

31 classic rock LPs, 2 James Taylor, 3 Bad Company, Steely Dan, Woodstock Two Thirty-one classic rock albums. Two James Taylor records, Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim. Three Bad Company albums including Desolation Angels and Fame and Fortune. Randy Newman's Good Old Boys, his 1974 concept album about the American South. Steely Dan's Greatest Hits. Crosby, Stills & Nash's Daylight Again. Cactus's One Way... or Another, from the band Vanilla Fudge's rhythm section formed. Jim Steinman's Bad for Good, the songs written for a Meat Loaf follow-up that Steinman ended up singing himself. Also: Heart, Kenny Loggins, Al Di Meola, Lee Ritenour, Lalo Schifrin on CTI, Three Dog Night live, The Young Rascals, BTO II, The Animals' Ark, Artimus Pyle Band, John B. Sebastian, Jefferson Starship, Elvin Bishop and both the Woodstock Two and Footloose soundtracks.

Lot: 141 - 5 Jimi Hendrix LPs, Axis Bold as Love, Hendrix in the West, Rainbow Bridge

5 Jimi Hendrix LPs, Axis Bold as Love, Hendrix in the West, Rainbow Bridge Five Jimi Hendrix albums, one of them still sealed. Two copies of the Rainbow Bridge soundtrack, one sealed in original shrink — the posthumous 1971 release containing "Dolly Dagger" and the solo "Star Spangled Banner," tied to Chuck Wein's film of the Maui concert. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love (Reprise RS 6281), the second album, on which Hendrix and engineer Eddie Kramer pushed studio technique further than anyone had — the stereo phasing on the title track was close to unprecedented in 1967. Hendrix in the West, the live compilation drawn from Berkeley, the Isle of Wight and the Royal Albert Hall. Plus a further Reprise release in an illustrated sleeve.

Lot: 142 - 4 Rolling Stones LPs, Exile on Main St., Some Girls, 2 Hot Rocks

4 Rolling Stones LPs, Exile on Main St., Some Girls, 2 Hot Rocks Four Rolling Stones albums. Exile on Main St., the 1972 double recorded largely in the basement of Keith Richards's rented villa in the south of France while the band were tax exiles — reviewed indifferently on release and now routinely placed among the greatest rock albums ever made. Some Girls, the 1978 record on which the band absorbed disco and punk and produced "Miss You" and "Beast of Burden." And two copies of Hot Rocks 1964–1971, the double-album compilation that has never been out of print and remains the best-selling Stones release in the United States. A straightforward, high-demand four-record lot.

Lot: 143 - 4 Bruce Springsteen LPs, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River

4 Bruce Springsteen LPs, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River Four Bruce Springsteen albums covering three distinct phases. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, the sprawling 1973 second album where the E Street Band's character first emerges. Darkness on the Edge of Town, made after three years of litigation kept him out of the studio, and the record where the writing turns hard and spare. The River, the 1980 double album that gave him his first top-ten single with "Hungry Heart" while burying some of his bleakest songs on side four. And Tunnel of Love, the quiet, largely solo 1987 album about a marriage coming apart. Four records that show the writer rather than the stadium act.

Lot: 144 - 3 Styx LPs, Crystal Ball and Pieces of Eight gold vinyl, Styx II

3 Styx LPs, Crystal Ball and Pieces of Eight gold vinyl, Styx II Three Styx albums, two of them on gold vinyl. Crystal Ball, the 1976 A&M debut and the first album with Tommy Shaw, here in the gold vinyl edition. Pieces of Eight, the 1978 album containing "Renegade" and "Blue Collar Man," also gold vinyl. And Styx II on Wooden Nickel, the 1973 album originally ignored until "Lady" was rediscovered by radio two years later and pushed it into the top ten — the record that made the band. Coloured-vinyl A&M pressings from this period were promotional or limited runs and turn up far less often than the standard black issues.

Lot: 145 - 2 jazz LPs, Count Basie – Straight Ahead promo, Duke Ellington – Jazz Party

2 jazz LPs, Count Basie – Straight Ahead promo, Duke Ellington – Jazz Party This collectible item consists of two jazz albums: 'Straight Ahead' by Count Basie and 'Jazz Party' by Duke Ellington. The 'Straight Ahead' album is a promotional copy released by Dot Records, featuring Count Basie and his orchestra. The 'Jazz Party' album is by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring notable musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges.

Lot: 146 - 10 1980s LPs, Talking Heads, Sting, INXS Kick, Michelle Shocked

10 1980s LPs, Talking Heads, Sting, INXS Kick, Michelle Shocked Ten albums from the 1980s. Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, the soundtrack to Jonathan Demme's concert film, still widely called the best of its kind. Sting's The Dream of the Blue Turtles, his first solo album after The Police, recorded with jazz musicians including Branford Marsalis and Omar Hakim. INXS's Kick, the record that took the Australian band worldwide. Michelle Shocked's The Texas Campfire Tapes, recorded on a Walkman at the Kerrville Folk Festival and released in Britain without her involvement, which went to number one on the UK indie chart. Also: Simple Minds' Once Upon a Time, Swing Out Sister, Shakatak, John Waite's No Brakes and Talk Show.

Lot: 147 - Johnny & The Hurricanes – Stormsville, Warwick Records W2010

Johnny & The Hurricanes – Stormsville, Warwick Records W2010 This is a vintage vinyl record titled 'Stormsville' by Johnny & The Hurricanes, released under Warwick Records with the catalog number W2010. The cover features a photograph of the band members playing instruments, and the back provides details about the tracks and band members.

Lot: 148 - 12 James Brown LPs, Prisoner of Love King 851, Revolution of the Mind

12 James Brown LPs, Prisoner of Love King 851, Revolution of the Mind Twelve James Brown albums spanning three decades and four labels. From King: Prisoner of Love (King 851). From Smash: two copies of Showtime (MGS 27054) and Sings Out of Sight — the Smash sides came from Brown's contractual war with King, when he recorded instrumentals for one label while singing for another. From Polydor: Revolution of the Mind, recorded live at the Apollo; Take a Look at Those Cakes; and two volumes of Soul Classics. Also The Federal Years... Part One, covering the earliest Famous Flames recordings; the Ain't That a Groove 1966–69 retrospective; a Can't Get Any Harder twelve-inch double; and Living in America from Rocky IV. A substantial run for a funk collector.

Lot: 149 - 3 James Brown LPs, It's a Mother, Live at the Apollo, Hot Pants sealed

3 James Brown LPs, It's a Mother, Live at the Apollo, Hot Pants sealed This collectible set includes three vinyl albums by James Brown: 'It's a Mother', 'Live at the Apollo', and 'Hot Pants'. The 'Hot Pants' album is sealed, indicating it may be in mint condition. These albums are iconic in the funk and soul genre, showcasing James Brown's influence on music.

Lot: 150 - 15 LPs, 5 Frank Sinatra, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Jack Teagarden

15 LPs, 5 Frank Sinatra, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Jack Teagarden Fifteen albums of vocal jazz, Dixieland and traditional pop. Frank Sinatra appears five times, including Come Fly with Me and Nice 'n' Easy — the Capitol concept albums arranged by Billy May and Nelson Riddle that essentially invented the idea of an album as a unified mood rather than a bundle of singles — plus Just One of Those Things, My Kind of Broadway and the Reprise Greatest Hits. Two Al Hirt records and two Pete Fountain, the New Orleans trumpet and clarinet pair. Jack Teagarden's Swinging Down in Dixie, from the trombonist Louis Armstrong called his favourite. Also Billy Eckstine, Bing Crosby, Frankie Avalon, Chuck Berry's Golden Decade Vol. 2 and a Modern Jazz Hall of Fame set.

Lot: 151 - 15 Elvis Presley LPs, Elvis' Golden Records, Blue Hawaii, Aloha from Hawaii

15 Elvis Presley LPs, Elvis' Golden Records, Blue Hawaii, Aloha from Hawaii Fifteen Elvis Presley albums, with duplicates of several titles. Two copies of Elvis' Golden Records (RCA LPM-1707), the first greatest-hits album RCA ever assembled for him. 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records Vol. 2 (LPM-2075), with the famous gold lamé suit cover. Blue Hawaii (LPM-2426), the soundtrack that outsold every other album he made in the 1960s. Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite, the two-record set from the 1973 broadcast seen in more than forty countries. Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis; Moody Blue; Elvis' Christmas Album; Let's Be Friends and two Camden copies of Elvis; The Best of Elvis: Good Rockin' Tonight; and the Pickwick double Double Dynamite.

Lot: 152 - 7 LPs, Santana & McLaughlin, Warren Zevon, Joe Jackson, Cat Stevens

7 LPs, Santana & McLaughlin, Warren Zevon, Joe Jackson, Cat Stevens Seven albums. Love Devotion Surrender, the 1973 Columbia album on which Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin — both then followers of Sri Chinmoy — recorded John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" together with two guitars, Larry Young on organ and Billy Cobham on drums. Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, the Jackson Browne-produced album containing "Werewolves of London" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money." Joe Jackson's Night and Day, his New York salsa-and-Cole-Porter record. Carlos Santana's Havana Moon. Justin Hayward & John Lodge's Blue Jays, made during a Moody Blues hiatus. Cat Stevens's Foreigner. And The Graduate soundtrack with Simon & Garfunkel.

Lot: 153 - 13 country LPs, 4 Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Rosanne Cash, Merle Haggard

13 country LPs, 4 Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Rosanne Cash, Merle Haggard Thirteen country albums. Four Willie Nelson records, including Red Headed Stranger — the spare 1975 concept album Columbia thought was a demo, which sold millions and made outlaw country commercially undeniable — plus City of New Orleans, Angel Eyes and A Horse Called Music. Patsy Cline on Decca. Rosanne Cash's King's Record Shop, which produced four consecutive number-one singles and takes its name from the Louisville store pictured on its cover. Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears, his 1964 album of songs about the treatment of Native Americans, which radio largely refused to play. Also: Merle Haggard's Rainbow Stew live, Chet Atkins' Workshop, Emmylou Harris's Last Date, Leo Kottke, Stonewall Jackson and a Kingsmen album.

Lot: 154 - 12 country/folk/bluegrass LPs, 2 Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

12 country/folk/bluegrass LPs, 2 Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Twelve country, folk and bluegrass albums. Two Chet Atkins records, the two-LP This Is Chet Atkins and Chet Atkins' Workshop (RCA LPM-2232) — Atkins being both the guitarist whose thumb-and-fingers style shaped a generation and the RCA executive who built the Nashville Sound. Jim Reeves's He'll Have to Go (LPM-2223), the title track being one of the biggest country records of all time. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Dirt, Silver and Gold, a three-record retrospective. Homer and Jethro's Barefoot Ballads, from the Grammy-winning country parody duo. Also: Hank Thompson's 25th Anniversary Album, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, The Sandpipers, American Bluegrass Express, and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry 1926–1974.

Lot: 155 - 4 LPs, 3 The Who, Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet

4 LPs, 3 The Who, Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet Four albums. The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet on London (PS 539), the 1968 album that ended their psychedelic detour and returned them to blues and country — the record with "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man," and Brian Jones's last real contribution. Three by The Who: Odds & Sods, the 1974 collection of unreleased tracks Pete Townshend assembled from the vaults, including material from the abandoned Lifehouse project; The Who by Numbers (MCA-2126), the bleak, personal 1975 album with John Entwistle's line-drawing cover; and Face Dances, the first album after Keith Moon's death, with Kenney Jones on drums.

Lot: 156 - 8 LPs, Horowitz at the Met, Dave Brubeck, Louis Prima & Keely Smith

8 LPs, Horowitz at the Met, Dave Brubeck, Louis Prima & Keely Smith Eight albums across jazz, classical and popular. Horowitz at the Met on RCA Red Seal, the pianist recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House in Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff — Horowitz being the performer whose returns from long retirements were treated as cultural events. Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits on Columbia. Louis and Keely!, from Louis Prima and Keely Smith, the Las Vegas act whose interplay influenced generations of lounge and swing revivalists. Henry Mancini Plays the Great Academy Award Songs. Also: Frankie Laine's I Believe, Mitch Miller's Folk Songs Sing Along with Mitch, Jerry Lee Lewis's Country Class, and a record by 8th Route Army.

Lot: 157 - 6 Beatles LPs, A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles' Story, Beatles '65

6 Beatles LPs, A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles' Story, Beatles '65 Six Beatles albums, all American pressings. A Hard Day's Night on United Artists (UAL 3366) — the film soundtrack went to a different label than the band's records, and this edition includes George Martin's orchestral instrumentals alongside the songs. The Beatles' Story (Capitol TBO 2222), the two-record documentary album of narration, interviews and song fragments that Capitol assembled at the height of Beatlemania. The Early Beatles (ST 2309), Capitol's repackaging of the Vee-Jay material they had earlier declined. Something New (ST 2108) and Beatles '65 (T 2228), both products of Capitol's practice of shortening British albums to make extra ones. Plus the two-record Love Songs in its embossed gatefold.

Lot: 158 - 5 Beatles LPs, numbered White Album 1968 first edition with poster and photos

5 Beatles LPs, numbered White Album 1968 first edition with poster and photos Five Beatles albums headed by a 1968 first edition of The Beatles — the White Album — on Apple/Capitol SWBO 101, a numbered copy complete with its poster and four portrait photographs. Every copy of the original pressing carried an individually stamped number, part of Richard Hamilton's deliberately blank sleeve design, and complete examples with all inserts present are markedly harder to find than the record alone. With it: Meet the Beatles! (Capitol T 2047), The Beatles' Second Album, Let It Be on Apple, and Hey Jude / The Beatles Again, the Apple compilation assembled for the American market after the band had effectively ended.

Lot: 159 - 12 Beatles LPs, Introducing the Beatles Vee-Jay, Imagine, Ram, Double Fantasy

12 Beatles LPs, Introducing the Beatles Vee-Jay, Imagine, Ram, Double Fantasy Twelve Beatles and solo albums. Introducing... The Beatles (Vee-Jay VJLP 1062), the contested first American Beatles LP. The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's, Beatles '65, the red 1962–1966 double and Love Songs. From the solo years: John Lennon's Imagine on Apple, still in its original outer bag; John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy on Geffen, released three weeks before Lennon's murder; Paul McCartney's Ram, the album credited to Paul and Linda McCartney that critics savaged on release before reversing themselves entirely; and Wings Over America, the three-record live set. Plus Hey Jude and one unofficial live pressing in a plain sleeve.

Lot: 160 - 19 LPs, 4 Bonnie Raitt, The Who Who Are You, Aerosmith Toys in the Attic

19 LPs, 4 Bonnie Raitt, The Who Who Are You, Aerosmith Toys in the Attic Nineteen albums. Four Bonnie Raitt records — Sweet Forgiveness, The Glow, Green Light and Nine Lives — covering the run of Warner Bros. albums she made before the label dropped her and Nick of Time made her a star. The Who's Who Are You, released three weeks before Keith Moon's death, with Moon sitting on a chair marked "Not to be taken away" on the cover. Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic, home of "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way." Two Horslips albums, the Irish band who fused traditional music with hard rock. Also: The Beach Boys' 15 Big Ones, Kansas's Masque, Rare Earth, Elton John's Jump Up!, Joe Walsh, Dr. Hook, Seals & Crofts, The Dream Academy, Steve Walsh, Cerrone and a Rod Stewart disco twelve-inch.

Lot: 161 - 7 promotional LPs, Van Halen debut, ZZ Top Tejas, Ted Nugent

7 promotional LPs, Van Halen debut, ZZ Top Tejas, Ted Nugent Seven promotional copies, none originally intended for retail sale. Van Halen's self-titled 1978 debut with promotional sticker — the record that arrived with "Eruption" and reset expectations for electric guitar. ZZ Top's Tejas on London, marked Promotional Copy Not For Sale. Ted Nugent's State of Shock on Epic, stamped Demonstration Not For Sale. A Tom Tom Club twelve-inch of "Under the Boardwalk," the Talking Heads rhythm section's side project. Plus John Fogerty's Eye of the Zombie, Sparks' Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat, and Joe Cocker's Cocker on Capitol. Radio and retail promos were pressed in small quantities and often play better than commercial copies of the same age.

Lot: 162 - 6 jazz/fusion LPs, Coltrane Ballads, Herbie Hancock, signed Gino Paoli

6 jazz/fusion LPs, Coltrane Ballads, Herbie Hancock, signed Gino Paoli Six jazz and fusion albums. The John Coltrane Quartet's Ballads (Impulse A-32), the 1963 record of standards played straight and slow, made partly to answer critics who called his playing anti-jazz, and now one of his most loved albums. Herbie Hancock's Future Shock, the 1983 record with Bill Laswell that produced "Rockit" and put turntable scratching on MTV. Duke Ellington and Ray Brown's This One's for Blanton on Pablo. Flora Purim's 500 Miles High at Montreux. Franco & Rochereau's Omona Wapi, a summit of the two giants of Congolese rumba. And Gino Paoli's Allo Studio A on RCA Italiana, signed and inscribed by the singer on the back cover.

Lot: 163 - 2 Dave Matthews Band albums, Walk Around the Moon, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King

2 Dave Matthews Band albums, Walk Around the Moon, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Two Dave Matthews Band albums. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2009) is the emotional centre of the band's catalogue — the first album after saxophonist LeRoi Moore's death from injuries sustained in an ATV accident, built partly from sessions he had played on, with his saxophone opening the record and the title taken from his nickname. It debuted at number one and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Walk Around the Moon (2023) is their tenth studio album, a quieter, more acoustic-leaning record made largely during the pandemic. Both in vinyl format with the band's distinctive collage-style sleeve art.

Lot: 164 - 2 Tool albums, Opiate and Undertow

2 Tool albums, Opiate and Undertow Two early Tool releases documenting the band before the arena years. Opiate (1992) is the debut EP — six tracks, mostly the heaviest and most direct material the band ever recorded, cut while they were still playing Los Angeles clubs. Undertow (1993) is the first full album, the record that established the Maynard James Keenan / Adam Jones / Danny Carey approach of long-form structures, odd meters and lyrics built on psychological rather than horror imagery. Carey's drumming on both is the element other musicians tend to single out. Distinctive sleeve art throughout, in keeping with the band's long refusal to put their faces on a cover.

Lot: 165 - 2 Depeche Mode albums, Violator and Exciter

2 Depeche Mode albums, Violator and Exciter Two Depeche Mode albums eleven years apart. Violator (1990) is the commercial and critical peak — "Personal Jesus," "Enjoy the Silence" and "Policy of Truth," produced by Flood with Alan Wilder still in the band, and the record that turned a British synth-pop group into a stadium act in America. Exciter (2001) is their only album with producer Mark Bell, a deliberately sparse, glitch-inflected record that divided the fan base on release and has been steadily reappraised since. The rose on the Violator sleeve, designed by Anton Corbijn, remains one of the most recognisable images in electronic music.

Lot: 166 - 2 Nirvana albums, Nevermind and In Utero

2 Nirvana albums, Nevermind and In Utero The two Nirvana albums that bracket the band's entire mainstream existence. Nevermind (1991), with Butch Vig producing and Andy Wallace mixing, displaced Michael Jackson from number one and is usually credited with ending the commercial dominance of hair metal outright. In Utero (1993), here in the 2013 Steve Albini-approved mix, was the deliberate reaction against it — recorded in two weeks in rural Minnesota, abrasive by design, and the last album released in Kurt Cobain's lifetime. Both are vinyl pressings with their original iconic sleeves.

Lot: 167 - 7 jazz LPs, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Blue Note & Riverside

7 jazz LPs, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Blue Note & Riverside Seven jazz LPs from the music's central decade, piano- and horn-led throughout. The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (1959) is the concert at which Hall Overton's arrangements scaled Monk's angular piano writing up to a ten-piece band for the first time — the record that finally made critics take his compositions seriously as compositions. Genius of Modern Music collects the 1947–52 Blue Note sessions that are the foundation of his catalogue. Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is one of the four albums Davis cut in two marathon 1956 dates to clear his Prestige contract, with John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano and Philly Joe Jones on drums. A Charlie Parker set on alto rounds out a lot drawn from Blue Note, Riverside and Prestige at their peak.

Lot: 168 - The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle The Zombies' Odessey & Oracle (1968), one of the most admired albums of the British psychedelic era and a genuine cult record in the truest sense. It was made at Abbey Road on a tight budget as the band were breaking up, using the Mellotron the Beatles had left behind; the misspelled title was the sleeve designer's error and was kept. Nobody bought it. The band had already split when "Time of the Season" became a huge American hit a year later, and they declined to reunite for it. Rod Argent and Chris White's writing, and the band's vocal arrangements, have influenced everyone from Paul Weller to Tame Impala. Includes "Care of Cell 44" and "A Rose for Emily."

Lot: 169 - Post Malone - Beerbongs and Bentleys, clear vinyl pressing

Post Malone - Beerbongs and Bentleys, clear vinyl pressing Post Malone's Beerbongs & Bentleys (2018) on a clear vinyl pressing, two records in protective sleeves. The album broke streaming records on release — it held the Spotify single-day record at launch and produced "Rockstar," "Psycho" and "Better Now," all top-ten singles — and it is the record that confirmed Austin Post as one of the defining pop artists of the streaming era rather than a novelty. Its blurring of hip-hop, rock and country phrasing anticipated much of what the mainstream did over the following five years.

Lot: 170 - Metallica - The Black Album

Metallica - The Black Album Metallica's fifth studio album, universally known as The Black Album (1991, Elektra), here as a two-LP set with lyric sheet. Produced by Bob Rock, it deliberately abandoned the long, multi-part thrash structures of the previous four records for shorter, heavier, mid-tempo songs — a decision that split the fan base and sold in the region of thirty million copies worldwide. It contains "Enter Sandman," "Nothing Else Matters," "Sad but True" and "The Unforgiven," and it has never left the Billboard 200 for long since release. The near-black sleeve carries only a faint coiled rattlesnake, the Gadsden flag image behind the album's "Don't Tread on Me."

Lot: 171 - Mötley Crüe - Greatest Hits

Mötley Crüe - Greatest Hits Mötley Crüe's Greatest Hits, collecting the Los Angeles band's run from the Sunset Strip clubs to arena headlining. The track selection spans Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls and Dr. Feelgood — the last being their only number-one album, produced by Bob Rock, and the record made after the band got sober following Nikki Sixx's near-fatal overdose. Vince Neil, Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee were as well known for the surrounding chaos as the music, but the Dr. Feelgood-era material in particular holds up as tightly constructed hard rock. Cover features a caricature of the band on red.

Lot: 172 - New Order - Education Entertainment Recreation, live at Alexandrea Place

New Order - Education Entertainment Recreation, live at Alexandrea Place New Order's Education Entertainment Recreation, recorded live at Alexandra Palace in London in November 2018 and released in 2021. It is the band's first official live album since 2017's NOMC15 and captures the current lineup — Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Phil Cunningham, with Tom Chapman on bass — playing a set that reaches back through New Order's catalogue and into Joy Division. The multi-record set carries the abstract sleeve design the band has used since the Factory years, when Peter Saville's covers were as much a part of the identity as the music.

Lot: 173 - Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak, triple LP

Zach Bryan - American Heartbreak, triple LP Zach Bryan's American Heartbreak (2022) as a triple LP with insert. Bryan was an active-duty Navy sailor when he began posting songs recorded on a phone; this was his major-label debut, thirty-four tracks long, and it entered the Billboard 200 at number five with no radio single and almost no conventional promotion. It is the record that made him one of the biggest names in American music and reopened the door for stripped-down, lyric-first country writing at commercial scale. Three records, each in its own sleeve; back cover lists the track titles.

Lot: 174 - Prince - The Hits 1

Prince - The Hits 1 Prince's The Hits 1, the first volume of the 1993 compilation assembled as he was ending his relationship with Warner Bros. and about to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol. It gathers "When Doves Cry" — recorded with no bass line at all, a decision the label fought him on — alongside "1999," "Let's Go Crazy" and other singles from the imperial period. For a musician who played most instruments on most of his records and wrote hits for half a dozen other acts under pseudonyms, a hits compilation is an unusually good entry point. Black-and-white sleeve portrait.

Lot: 175 - Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon with 2 posters and 2 stickers

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon with 2 posters and 2 stickers Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon complete with two posters and two stickers — the full complement of inserts issued with the album, and the part most often missing. The record itself needs little introduction: recorded at Abbey Road in 1972–73 with engineer Alan Parsons, built around Roger Waters's lyrics on pressure, money, madness and death, and featuring Clare Torry's improvised vocal on "The Great Gig in the Sky," for which she was paid a session fee and later, after litigation, a co-writing credit. Hipgnosis's prism sleeve is arguably the most reproduced album image ever made. Inserts present makes this notably more collectible than the record alone.

Lot: 176 - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine (1989), the debut album Trent Reznor made almost entirely alone using downtime at the Cleveland studio where he worked as an assistant engineer. It fused industrial noise with actual pop songwriting in a way nothing else had, and it became one of the first independent releases to go platinum, staying on the charts for years on word of mouth. "Head Like a Hole" and "Something I Can Never Have" both come from it. Everything Reznor did afterwards, including the Oscar-winning film scores, descends from the approach worked out on this record.

Lot: 177 - Tyler Childers - Purgatory

Tyler Childers - Purgatory Tyler Childers' Purgatory (2017), the second album and the one that made his name. It was produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson — Ferguson having engineered Johnny Cash's American Recordings — and it reached number one on Billboard's Heatseekers chart with no mainstream country radio support whatsoever. Childers writes from eastern Kentucky in a voice and idiom that never softened for Nashville, and the record is now widely treated as the opening statement of the current Appalachian revival. Contains "Feathered Indians," "Whitehouse Road" and "Lady May."

Lot: 178 - Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More (2009), the debut that put banjo and stomp-along four-part harmony onto pop radio worldwide. Recorded in London with producer Markus Dravs, it built slowly through 2010 into a multi-platinum record and six Grammy nominations, and it triggered an entire wave of waistcoat-and-kick-drum folk revival acts in its wake. "Little Lion Man" and "The Cave" are both here. Sleeve shows the band standing in a shopfront; back cover carries the track titles and credits.

Lot: 179 - 2 Kings of Leon double LPs, When You See Yourself and Mechanical Bull

2 Kings of Leon double LPs, When You See Yourself and Mechanical Bull Two Kings of Leon double LPs in gatefold sleeves. Mechanical Bull (2013) is the sixth album, made after the tour collapse and hiatus that nearly ended the band, and it is generally taken as the record where they steadied themselves — "Supersoaker" and "Beautiful War" both come from it. When You See Yourself (2021) is the eighth, produced by Markus Dravs, and was released simultaneously as an NFT, making it the first album by a major act issued that way. The Followill family band's arc from garage-rock Tennessee brothers to stadium act is unusual enough to make a two-album pairing like this a reasonable snapshot.

Lot: 180 - Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror 4 LP set

Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror 4 LP set Pearl Jam's Rearview Mirror: Greatest Hits 1991–2003 as a four-LP set on coloured vinyl — two black, one grey, one white. The compilation was sequenced by the band rather than the label and split across an "up side" and a "down side," drawing from Ten through Riot Act. It covers the period in which Pearl Jam sold tens of millions of records, then deliberately withdrew from videos, interviews and the Ticketmaster system in a way that cost them commercially and earned them a durable reputation for integrity. Black-and-white band photography on the sleeve.

Lot: 181 - 2 Led Zeppelin albums, The Song Remains the Same soundtrack, Presence

2 Led Zeppelin albums, The Song Remains the Same soundtrack, Presence Two Led Zeppelin albums, likely original pressings. The Song Remains the Same (1976) is the double soundtrack to the concert film shot at Madison Square Garden in 1973, with the fantasy sequences filmed later at Jimmy Page's estate — long criticised by the band themselves for its sloppiness and loved by fans for exactly the same reason. Presence (1976) is the opposite: written and recorded in about three weeks in Munich while Robert Plant was in a wheelchair recovering from a car crash in Greece, with almost no keyboards or acoustic guitar and Page playing at his most aggressive. The Hipgnosis "Object" sleeve is one of the strangest they made.

Lot: 182 - 2 Sturgill Simpson albums, High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

2 Sturgill Simpson albums, High Top Mountain and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music Two Sturgill Simpson albums from the run that reset expectations for country music. High Top Mountain (2013) is the self-financed debut, a hard honky-tonk record cut with Nashville session veterans and openly indebted to Waylon Jennings. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014) is the one that changed things — the title nods to Ray Charles's Modern Sounds, and the record puts psychedelic production and lyrics about DMT and reincarnation inside conventional country arrangements, including a straight-faced cover of When in Rome's "The Promise," and it earned a Best Americana Album Grammy nomination. It made Simpson a critical cause and a commercial force without a single country radio hit.

Lot: 183 - 4 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Cookin', Donald Byrd, Duke Pearson, Elvin Jones

4 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Cookin', Donald Byrd, Duke Pearson, Elvin Jones Four jazz LPs, trumpet- and piano-led hard bop. Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet is another of the 1956 Prestige marathon sessions, recorded essentially live in the studio with Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones — the quintet playing its working repertoire in single takes. Donald Byrd's Byrd's Eye View catches the trumpeter early, before the soul-jazz and electric records that later made him a sampling staple for hip-hop producers. Duke Pearson's The Right Touch is a piano-led Blue Note octet date; Pearson was also the label's house arranger and A&R man, shaping records he never appeared on. Elvin Jones's Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub is a 2022 archival release documenting the Coltrane quartet drummer leading his own trio in a small New York club in 1967.

Lot: 184 - 4 country LPs, Charley Crockett, Whiskey Myers, Ryan Bingham, Brothers Osborne

4 country LPs, Charley Crockett, Whiskey Myers, Ryan Bingham, Brothers Osborne Four contemporary country and Americana albums, all from artists working outside the Nashville radio system. Charley Crockett's The Man from Waco is the record that consolidated his reputation — a Texas singer who busked for years, survived open-heart surgery, and has released albums at a pace no major label would sanction. Whiskey Myers' Tornillo was cut at Sonic Ranch on the Texas–Mexico border and is the album where the band's Southern-rock side fully took over. Ryan Bingham's American Love Song comes from the songwriter who won an Academy Award and a Grammy for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. Brothers Osborne round out the lot with the sibling duo whose guitar-forward sound sits closest to the mainstream here. Distinctive contemporary sleeve art throughout.

Lot: 185 - 3 Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban LPs, Fela Kuti Yellow Fever, Irakere, Ade Bashorun

3 Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban LPs, Fela Kuti Yellow Fever, Irakere, Ade Bashorun Three records from two of the most consequential non-American popular music traditions of the twentieth century. Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Yellow Fever is Afrobeat at full strength — the Nigerian bandleader's fusion of Yoruba rhythm, highlife, jazz and James Brown funk, delivered in long grooves with lyrics attacking the military government directly. Fela was jailed and beaten repeatedly for records like this, and his mother was killed in an army raid on his compound. Irakere is the Cuban group founded by Chucho Valdés, Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval, who put batá drums and Yoruba religious rhythm inside a jazz big band and won a Grammy in 1980. Ade Bashorun's Ile Nigeria Korin completes a genuinely uncommon lot for an American sale.

Lot: 186 - 4 Chet Baker LPs, Chet Baker Sings, Chet, Quartet with Russ Freeman

4 Chet Baker LPs, Chet Baker Sings, Chet, Quartet with Russ Freeman Four Chet Baker albums — trumpet and vocals, and the clearest single-artist run in the sale for the West Coast sound. Chet Baker Sings is the record that made him famous and divided the jazz world: a trumpeter with no vocal training singing standards in a thin, unadorned voice, which critics disliked and audiences adored. The Quartet with Russ Freeman documents his working group after the Gerry Mulligan piano-less quartet broke up. Chet (1959) is the ballad album with Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Connie Kay and Philly Joe Jones sharing the drums, generally considered his finest studio recording. I Get Chet adds Bobby Jaspar. Baker's playing was lyrical and economical throughout a life repeatedly derailed by addiction; he died in Amsterdam in 1988.

Lot: 187 - 5 jazz guitar LPs, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Blue Note and Verve

5 jazz guitar LPs, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Blue Note and Verve Five guitar-led jazz LPs, three by Grant Green and two by Kenny Burrell. Green recorded more sessions for Blue Note than almost anyone and played single-note lines with the phrasing of a horn rather than a guitarist; Nigeria puts him with Sonny Clark, Sam Jones and Art Blakey, Feelin' the Spirit is his gospel-material session, and I Want to Hold Your Hand takes Beatles and pop tunes into hard bop. Burrell is represented by Introducing Kenny Burrell (Blue Note 1523), his 1956 leader debut, and Guitar Forms, the 1965 Verve album arranged by Gil Evans across everything from bossa to flamenco to blues — here in the Verve Acoustic Sounds Series, an all-analog reissue mastered by Ryan Smith and pressed at QRP. Burrell was Duke Ellington's favourite guitarist by Ellington's own account.

Lot: 188 - 3 Wayne Shorter albums, JuJu, Footprints Live, The All Seeing Eye (sealed)

3 Wayne Shorter albums, JuJu, Footprints Live, The All Seeing Eye (sealed) Three Wayne Shorter albums spanning nearly forty years. JuJu (1964) is a quartet date with the McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones rhythm section — effectively the Coltrane band without Coltrane — and it is where Shorter's compositional voice on tenor saxophone becomes unmistakable. The All Seeing Eye (1965) is his most ambitious Blue Note session, a large-group record with Freddie Hubbard, Grachan Moncur III and brother Alan Shorter; this copy is sealed and is a Blue Note Tone Poet Series pressing, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog tapes and pressed at RTI. Footprints Live! (2002) documents the acoustic quartet with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade that occupied his last two decades. Shorter wrote for Blakey, Miles and Weather Report and is among the most-covered composers in jazz.

Lot: 189 - 5 jazz LPs, Hank Mobley Workout, Sonny Rollins Newk's Time, Freddie Hubbard

5 jazz LPs, Hank Mobley Workout, Sonny Rollins Newk's Time, Freddie Hubbard Five tenor- and horn-led classics from Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse. Hank Mobley's Workout pairs the tenor saxophonist with Grant Green, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones; Mobley was famously described as the middleweight champion of the tenor, neither as loud as Coltrane nor as cool as Getz, and his records have aged extremely well. Sonny Rollins's Newk's Time is a quartet date with Philly Joe Jones including the unaccompanied duo reading of "Surrey with the Fringe on Top." Freddie Hubbard's Blue Spirits is trumpet-led post-bop. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis's Goin' to the Meeting is tenor-and-organ soul jazz. McCoy Tyner's Nights of Ballads & Blues is the pianist's trio record made while he was still in Coltrane's quartet, and the one to play for anyone who thinks of Tyner only as a torrential player.

Lot: 190 - 7 Blue Note LPs, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Bobby Hutcherson, Turrentine

7 Blue Note LPs, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Bobby Hutcherson, Turrentine Seven Blue Note albums covering the label from its bebop origins to the present day. The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 1 and The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 1 are the foundational documents — Powell effectively invented modern jazz piano before mental illness and institutionalisation cut his career apart, and Navarro's trumpet playing shaped Clifford Brown before heroin and tuberculosis killed him at twenty-six. Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings is a vibraphone-led quartet with Herbie Hancock, here in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series (all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray, 180g). Johnny Coles's Little Johnny C is trumpet-led hard bop. Two Stanley Turrentine albums bring the tenor saxophonist's big soul-jazz tone, and Joshua Redman's Where Are We with vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa is a 2023 release, showing the label still active in the same lineage.

Lot: 191 - 5 jazz LPs, Mingus East Coasting, Pharoah Sanders Karma, Jimmy Smith

5 jazz LPs, Mingus East Coasting, Pharoah Sanders Karma, Jimmy Smith Five records that between them cover most of what jazz did between 1957 and 1969. Two Charles Mingus albums: East Coasting, a sextet date with Bill Evans on piano, and Pre-Bird, the ambitious large-ensemble record on which Mingus revisited music he had written before hearing Charlie Parker. Mingus was a bassist, composer and famously volatile bandleader whose writing sits closer to Ellington than to bebop. Pharoah Sanders's Karma is spiritual jazz at its most influential — a tenor saxophonist's thirty-two-minute "The Creator Has a Master Plan" with Leon Thomas yodelling over it, and a record sampled and referenced continuously since. Jimmy Smith's Back at the Chicken Shack is the definitive Hammond organ soul-jazz session, with Stanley Turrentine and Kenny Burrell. Paul Chambers's Bass on Top puts the Miles Davis quintet bassist out front.

Lot: 192 - 5 folk/Americana LPs, The Lumineers, The Decemberists, Nathaniel Rateliff

5 folk/Americana LPs, The Lumineers, The Decemberists, Nathaniel Rateliff Five contemporary folk and Americana albums. The Lumineers appear twice, with Cleopatra and Brightside — the Denver band whose stomp-and-clap arrangements and "Ho Hey" defined a whole strain of 2010s radio folk, and who have quietly kept making records that are darker and more novelistic than that reputation suggests. The Decemberists' The King Is Dead is Colin Meloy's turn away from prog-folk song cycles toward direct Americana, recorded in a barn in Oregon with Peter Buck of R.E.M. on guitar, and it went to number one. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats round the lot out with the Missouri-born singer whose soul-revue band gave him a second career after years of quieter solo folk records.

Lot: 193 - 3 jazz LPs, Herbie Hancock The Prisoner, Bill Frisell Four, Trio Grande

3 jazz LPs, Herbie Hancock The Prisoner, Bill Frisell Four, Trio Grande Three jazz albums from three different eras of Blue Note and its orbit. Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner (1969) is his last Blue Note album, a piano-led large-ensemble record written in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the most underrated things in his catalogue — the arrangements for flugelhorn, bass trombone and flute point directly at where he went next. Bill Frisell's Four (2022) is the guitarist's quartet with Gregory Tardy on reeds, Gerald Clayton on piano and Jonathan Blake on drums; Frisell has spent forty years making the electric guitar sound like Americana, country and ambient music at once. Trio Grande's Urban Myth is contemporary European-American saxophone-led jazz.

Lot: 194 - 5 country LPs, signed Kelsey Waldon, Jason Boland, The Revivalists

5 country LPs, signed Kelsey Waldon, Jason Boland, The Revivalists Five country and Americana albums, one of them signed. Kelsey Waldon's White Noise/White Lines carries a personal autograph; Waldon is the Kentucky songwriter John Prine signed to his Oh Boy Records label in 2019, the first artist he had signed in fifteen years, and she sang at his memorial. Jason Boland & The Stragglers' Pearl Snaps is a red dirt landmark, an Oklahoma record that has stayed in print on the strength of a scene that operates almost entirely outside Nashville. Jeremy Pinnell's Goodbye L.A. comes from the Kentucky honky-tonk singer working the same hard-country ground. The Revivalists' Men Amongst Mountains is New Orleans roots-rock, and Justin Moore's Greatest Hits represents the mainstream end.

Lot: 195 - 4 country LPs, Charley Crockett, Hayes Carll, Ryan Bingham, double LPs

4 country LPs, Charley Crockett, Hayes Carll, Ryan Bingham, double LPs Four contemporary country and Americana albums, each a double LP. Charley Crockett is a Texas singer descended, by his own account, from Davy Crockett, who spent years busking in New Orleans and New York before recording; he now releases albums faster than most artists release singles and has built a career entirely on his own terms. Hayes Carll is the Houston songwriter whose "She Left Me for Jesus" won Song of the Year at the Americana Awards and whose writing is closer to Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt than to anything on country radio. Ryan Bingham won an Academy Award and a Grammy for "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart, and has since become as well known for acting in Yellowstone. Distinct sleeve art on each.

Lot: 196 - 3 The Black Keys albums, The Big Come Up, El Camino, Ohio Players

3 The Black Keys albums, The Big Come Up, El Camino, Ohio Players Three Black Keys albums covering the full arc of the Akron duo. The Big Come Up (2002) is the debut, recorded by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney in Carney's basement on an eight-track for almost nothing — raw, distorted blues-rock made by two people with no third member and no budget. El Camino (2011) is the commercial peak, produced with Danger Mouse, containing "Lonely Boy" and "Gold on the Ceiling," and winner of three Grammys. Ohio Players (2024) reunites them with Danger Mouse again and brings in Beck and Noel Gallagher as collaborators. Twenty-two years of a band that never expanded past two members.

Lot: 197 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Out of This World: Live (1970-1997) box set, sealed

Emerson, Lake & Palmer Out of This World: Live (1970-1997) box set, sealed A sealed box set of Emerson, Lake & Palmer live recordings spanning 1970 to 1997, issued for the group's fiftieth anniversary. The material covers the full length of their career, including the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 — effectively their second-ever concert, played to several hundred thousand people — and California Jam in 1974, where they headlined one of the largest paying audiences in rock history. ELP built their reputation on Keith Emerson's classical adaptations and stage assaults on the Hammond organ, Greg Lake's voice and bass, and Carl Palmer's drumming; their arrangements of Mussorgsky, Ginastera and Copland brought concert repertoire to rock audiences at enormous scale. Still sealed.

Lot: 198 - Wes Montgomery – In The Beginning, 3 LP box set, first pressing, no. 99 of 1500

Wes Montgomery – In The Beginning, 3 LP box set, first pressing, no. 99 of 1500 Wes Montgomery's In The Beginning on Resonance Records, a limited-edition three-LP box set, first pressing, numbered 99 of 1500, with booklet. It collects previously unissued Indianapolis recordings from 1949 to 1958 — the years before Riverside signed him — including sessions with his brothers Monk and Buddy, and material recorded at the Turf Club and the Missile Room. Montgomery played with his thumb rather than a pick, developing the technique to avoid waking his neighbours while practising after factory shifts, and the resulting tone and octave playing reshaped jazz guitar permanently. Resonance's archival releases of this kind are produced with full estate cooperation and extensive liner-note research, and numbered first pressings sell out quickly.

Lot: 199 - The Very Best of The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer deluxe 6-LP vinyl box set

The Very Best of The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer deluxe 6-LP vinyl box set The Very Best of The Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer as a deluxe six-LP box set, each record in its own sleeve with band photography. The expanded edition of Sounds of Summer covers the group's Capitol years across a much wider selection than the original single-disc release, reaching past the surf and car singles into the Pet Sounds and Smile-era material where Brian Wilson's writing and production went somewhere else entirely. Wilson built those records in the studio with the Wrecking Crew while the rest of the band toured, and their influence on Paul McCartney and on the whole idea of the album as a composed object is well documented.

Lot: 200 - 5 jazz/fusion LPs, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke, Grover Washington Jr.

5 jazz/fusion LPs, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke, Grover Washington Jr. Five jazz-fusion and crossover albums from the genre's commercial peak. Weather Report's Mysterious Traveller (1974) is the Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter group in transition, the first album with Alphonso Johnson on bass and two albums before Jaco Pastorius arrived. Stanley Clarke's School Days is the bassist's best-known record — Clarke came out of Return to Forever and did as much as anyone to make the electric bass a lead instrument. Grover Washington Jr.'s Then and Now features the saxophonist whose Winelight and "Just the Two of Us" made him the biggest-selling instrumentalist of his era. Bob James's Heads is keyboard-led, and James's back catalogue is among the most heavily sampled in hip-hop. Chuck Mangione's Love Notes rounds it out on flugelhorn.

Lot: 201 - 5 Willie Nelson LPs, Red Headed Stranger, Stardust, one with autograph

5 Willie Nelson LPs, Red Headed Stranger, Stardust, one with autograph Five Willie Nelson albums including one carrying an unauthenticated autograph on Always on My Mind. Red Headed Stranger (1975) is the pivotal record — a spare concept album about a preacher who murders his wife, delivered so sparsely that Columbia executives assumed it was a demo; it sold millions and made outlaw country commercially undeniable. Stardust (1978) was the follow-up gamble, an album of pre-war pop standards produced by Booker T. Jones that everyone told him would end his career and instead stayed on the country chart for a decade. My Own Peculiar Way dates from his earlier Nashville period as a songwriter-for-hire, when he wrote "Crazy" for Patsy Cline. What a Wonderful World completes the set.

Lot: 203 - 6 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith organ and Wes Montgomery guitar, Verve & Pacific Jazz

6 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith organ and Wes Montgomery guitar, Verve & Pacific Jazz Six organ- and guitar-led jazz albums centred on two of the instrument's defining figures. Jimmy Smith effectively invented the modern jazz Hammond B-3 vocabulary, and is here on Organ Grinder Swing (with Wes Montgomery on guitar and Grady Tate on drums), Hoochie Cooche Man, Any Number Can Win and Stay Loose... Jimmy Smith Sings Again. Wes Montgomery played with his thumb instead of a pick and used octaves in a way no guitarist had before; California Dreaming is from his later, string-heavy Verve period with Don Sebesky arrangements, and The Mastersounds with Wes Montgomery documents the group his brothers Monk and Buddy led. Records from the Verve and Pacific Jazz catalogues, both known for strong engineering.

Lot: 204 - 7 jazz LPs, 5 Stanley Turrentine, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Ella Fitzgerald

7 jazz LPs, 5 Stanley Turrentine, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Ella Fitzgerald Seven jazz albums, dominated by tenor saxophone. Five are Stanley Turrentine records from his Fantasy and Elektra years — Nightwings, Inflation, Everybody Come On Out, Tender Togetherness and a self-titled set. Turrentine had one of the biggest, most immediately recognisable tenor tones in the music, formed playing rhythm and blues behind Ray Charles and Lowell Fulson before he ever recorded a jazz session, and these later crossover albums are where that soul phrasing is most exposed. The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra double album, on the Blue Note Re-Issue Series, documents the Monday-night big band that held a residency at the Village Vanguard for decades and still plays there under a different name. Ella Fitzgerald's Misty Blue is her 1968 country-leaning Capitol album.

Lot: 205 - 5 Dave Brubeck LPs, Time Out, Jazz Impressions of Eurasia, Newport 1958

5 Dave Brubeck LPs, Time Out, Jazz Impressions of Eurasia, Newport 1958 Five Dave Brubeck albums, piano-led, four of them the classic quartet with Paul Desmond on alto saxophone. Time Out (1959) is the centrepiece — the first jazz album to sell a million copies, built around meters almost unheard of in jazz at the time, and containing Desmond's "Take Five" in 5/4 and Brubeck's "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8, a rhythm he heard from street musicians in Istanbul. Jazz Impressions of Eurasia came directly out of the same State Department tour that generated those ideas. Newport 1958 documents the quartet live at the festival. The Light in the Wilderness is Brubeck's first extended sacred work for orchestra and chorus, from the side of his output that gets far less attention than the hits. Jazz Interwoven completes the set.

Lot: 206 - 12 jazz LPs, Blue Note Gems of Jazz, The Giants of Jazz, Autobiography in Jazz

12 jazz LPs, Blue Note Gems of Jazz, The Giants of Jazz, Autobiography in Jazz Twelve jazz LPs. he set is built around label anthologies and educational releases: Blue Note Gems of Jazz (BST 82001, a limited edition sampler), The Giants of Jazz on Columbia, Jazz Poll Winners from Columbia Special Products, and Autobiography in Jazz on Debut Records — Debut being the label Charles Mingus and Max Roach founded in 1952 to release music the majors would not, which makes anything carrying its logo of interest. Also present is a Jenson Publications gatefold double LP of New Music for Jazz Ensemble, a school band demonstration record of the kind rarely kept. Compilations like these are how most listeners first encountered the Blue Note and Columbia rosters.

Lot: 207 - 12 soft rock and folk LPs, Billy Joel, Tom Petty, America, Gordon Lightfoot

12 soft rock and folk LPs, Billy Joel, Tom Petty, America, Gordon Lightfoot Twelve albums of soft rock, folk rock and pop from the 1970s and 1980s. Tom Petty and Billy Joel anchor the mainstream end; America and Gordon Lightfoot the singer-songwriter side — Lightfoot being the Canadian writer of "If You Could Read My Mind" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," whose "Early Morning Rain" was covered by everyone from Elvis to Johnny Cash, and whom Bob Dylan named as a favourite songwriter. Blood, Sweat & Tears bring the horn-driven jazz-rock strand that briefly dominated the charts at the turn of the seventies. Air Supply represent the Australian soft-rock end of the same market. A broad, listenable lot of period-defining radio records rather than rarities.

Lot: 208 - 6 78RPM album sets, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Disney's Dumbo, Jo Stafford

6 78RPM album sets, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Disney's Dumbo, Jo Stafford Six 78rpm album sets — the bound multi-disc books that were the standard album format before the LP arrived, and the reason we still call a collection of songs an "album." Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas on Decca, cut with John Scott Trotter's orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers, is the set that carried "White Christmas," still the best-selling single ever released; his Drifting and Dreaming is also here. Frank Sinatra's Songs by Sinatra on Columbia comes from his Axel Stordahl years, before the Capitol reinvention. Walt Disney's Dumbo on Victor is an early film tie-in record. Frankie Carle's At the Piano (Columbia C-23) and a Jo Stafford set with Paul Weston's orchestra complete the group. Sets like these are increasingly collected for the cover art and packaging as much as the shellac.

Lot: 209 - 10 LPs, Abbey Road, Janis Joplin Pearl, Ummagumma, Band on the Run

10 LPs, Abbey Road, Janis Joplin Pearl, Ummagumma, Band on the Run Ten rock and pop albums from the classic era. The Beatles are here twice — Abbey Road on Apple, the last album they recorded together, and The Beatles' Second Album on Capitol. Janis Joplin's Pearl was released after her death, with one track left as an instrumental because she never recorded the vocal. Pink Floyd's Ummagumma is the half-live, half-solo double where each member took half a side of the studio disc to himself. Also included: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's So Far, Paul McCartney & Wings' Band on the Run, The Beach Boys' Surf's Up, The Best of The Band, The Alan Parsons Project's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and I'll Be Your Mirror, the Velvet Underground tribute album.

Lot: 210 - 8 jazz LPs, Blue Note Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl, Lee Morgan, Oscar Peterson

8 jazz LPs, Blue Note Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl, Lee Morgan, Oscar Peterson Eight jazz albums mixing originals with current audiophile reissues. Two are premium Blue Note pressings: Lou Donaldson's Midnight Creeper (alto saxophone) in the Tone Poet Series, and Stanley Turrentine with The Three Sounds on Blue Hour (tenor saxophone with Gene Harris's piano trio) in the Classic Vinyl Series — both all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray, 180g. Lee Morgan's Taru is a late trumpet session released only after his murder at the age of thirty-three. Two Oscar Peterson records show the pianist's virtuosity in big-band and songbook settings, and The Three Sounds' Blue Genes is Harris's piano trio at its most blues-rooted. Mongo Santamaria's Watermelon Man! is conga-led Latin jazz — it gave Herbie Hancock's tune its hit version. Kid Thomas Valentine on Arhoolie brings New Orleans trumpet.

Lot: 211 - 7 jazz LPs, Blue Note originals, Lou Donaldson, Ahmad Jamal, Coltrane

7 jazz LPs, Blue Note originals, Lou Donaldson, Ahmad Jamal, Coltrane Seven jazz albums, strong on Blue Note catalogue numbers. Lou Donaldson's Blues Walk (alto saxophone, with Ray Barretto on congas) is one of the label's most reliably enjoyable records and the source of a title track that became a standard. Dizzy Reece's Star Bright is trumpet-led hard bop from the Jamaican-born player Blue Note signed in London. George Braith's Extension features his stereophonic two-saxophones-at-once technique with Grant Green on guitar, and Horace Parlan's Speakin' My Piece is piano-led — Parlan played with a hand partly paralysed by childhood polio and built an entire style around it. Shirley Scott and Clark Terry's Soul Duo pairs organ with trumpet and flugelhorn on Impulse!. Also here: Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing Volume Two and a Coltrane-era Bethlehem session.

Lot: 212 - 9 jazz LPs, 3 Kenny Burrell guitar, Stanley Turrentine, McCoy Tyner

9 jazz LPs, 3 Kenny Burrell guitar, Stanley Turrentine, McCoy Tyner Nine jazz albums leaning toward guitar and tenor saxophone in their crossover years. Three are Kenny Burrell records — A Generation Ago Today on Verve, Handcrafted on Muse and When Lights Are Low on Concord — from the guitarist whose warm, blues-anchored tone made him one of the most recorded sidemen in jazz and Duke Ellington's stated favourite on the instrument. Two Stanley Turrentine albums include Don't Mess With Mister T. on CTI, arranged by Bob James, which is among the best-selling records the label ever put out. Earl Klugh's Solo Guitar is unaccompanied nylon-string playing; Gato Barbieri's Caliente! is the Argentine tenor player's A&M crossover, produced by Herb Alpert. McCoy Tyner's Together is a demonstration copy. Joe Sample's Spellbound comes from the Crusaders' keyboardist.

Lot: 213 - 8 jazz LPs, Money Jungle, Grant Green, Tony Williams Life Time, Transition

8 jazz LPs, Money Jungle, Grant Green, Tony Williams Life Time, Transition Eight jazz albums with several genuinely uncommon items. Money Jungle puts Duke Ellington's piano in a trio with Charles Mingus and Max Roach — three generations and three temperaments in one room, and the tension is audible. Anthony Williams's Life Time (Blue Note Tone Poet Series, all-analog, Kevin Gray mastering) is the drummer's leader debut, recorded at eighteen while he was already in the Miles Davis quintet. Donald Byrd's Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill is on Transition, the short-lived Boston label whose original pressings are seriously scarce. Two Grant Green guitar records — Born to Be Blue and the Sonny Clark quartet date Oleo. Bobby Hutcherson's San Francisco is vibraphone-led with Harold Land. Sam Lazar's organ record Space Flight, featuring Green, comes as a Third Man 180g Verve By Request pressing.

Lot: 214 - 8 jazz LPs, Blue Note Tone Poet, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Booker Ervin

8 jazz LPs, Blue Note Tone Poet, Dexter Gordon, Gil Evans, Booker Ervin Eight jazz albums heavy on premium modern Blue Note reissues. Two are Tone Poet Series pressings — "Big" John Patton's Let 'Em Roll (Hammond organ, with Bobby Hutcherson on vibes) and Booker Ervin's Tex Book Tenor, an unissued 1968 session by a Texas tenor saxophonist best known from Mingus's bands. Dexter Gordon's One Flight Up was recorded in Paris during his long European exile; Gordon was the first major bebop tenor player and later earned an Oscar nomination for acting in Round Midnight. Thad Jones's Detroit–New York Junction is trumpet-led. Doug Watkins's Watkins at Large is a rare bass-led date on Transition. Gil Evans's Great Jazz Standards features his orchestral writing, the same sensibility behind Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain. Delvon Lamarr's organ trio brings the lot up to the present.

Lot: 215 - 8 jazz LPs, Jazz Samba, Jimmy Smith Crazy! Baby, Ahmad Jamal, Gabor Szabo

8 jazz LPs, Jazz Samba, Jimmy Smith Crazy! Baby, Ahmad Jamal, Gabor Szabo Eight jazz albums spanning organ, guitar, piano and bossa nova. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba (Verve V-8432) is the record that started the American bossa nova craze outright — it went to number one on the pop chart, the only jazz album ever to do so, and made Antonio Carlos Jobim's writing famous outside Brazil. Jimmy Smith's Crazy! Baby is Hammond organ trio jazz at its most swinging. Two Ahmad Jamal records include At the Pershing, the Chicago club date that stayed on the charts for over two years and whose use of space Miles Davis openly copied. Kenny Burrell's Man at Work and Gabor Szabo's More Sorcery cover the guitar side, Szabo being the Hungarian émigré whose modal, Eastern-inflected playing influenced Santana. Thelonious Monk on Prestige completes it.

Lot: 216 - 8 modern Blue Note LPs, Julian Lage, Ambrose Akinmusire, Trombone Shorty

8 modern Blue Note LPs, Julian Lage, Ambrose Akinmusire, Trombone Shorty Eight albums of current jazz, almost all on Blue Note under Don Was — evidence that the label is still signing rather than only reissuing. Julian Lage's The Layers is guitar-led; Lage was a child prodigy documented at eight in the short film Jules at Eight and is now among the most admired guitarists working. Ambrose Akinmusire's On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment is trumpet-led and explicitly political. Joel Ross's KingMaker is vibraphone-led, Walter Smith III's Return to Casual tenor saxophone, and Nels Cline 4's Currents, Constellations comes from the guitarist better known to rock audiences as a member of Wilco. Two Trombone Shorty albums bring New Orleans brass. The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio's Cold As Weiss on Colemine is Hammond organ soul jazz. Most appear new or unplayed.

Lot: 217 - 9 jazz LPs, Jobim Wave, Cal Tjader, Al Di Meola, Cab Calloway, Martin Denny

9 jazz LPs, Jobim Wave, Cal Tjader, Al Di Meola, Cab Calloway, Martin Denny Nine albums covering the broader edges of jazz rather than its centre. Antonio Carlos Jobim's Wave is the Brazilian composer's own record — Jobim wrote "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado" and is the most significant songwriter bossa nova produced. Cal Tjader's Soul Sauce is vibraphone-led Latin jazz and was the biggest-selling record of his career. Cab Calloway's Hi De Ho Man documents the Cotton Club bandleader whose zoot suit and call-and-response showmanship made him one of the first Black entertainers to reach a mass white audience. Martin Denny's Quiet Village takes its name from the Les Baxter tune that was the hit of his 1957 album Exotica, the record that founded the genre, bird calls and all. Al Di Meola's Elegant Gypsy is guitar-led fusion at its most technically extreme. A varied lot for a listener rather than a purist.

Lot: 218 - 6 folk/Americana LPs, Jason Isbell, Turnpike Troubadours, Cedric Burnside

6 folk/Americana LPs, Jason Isbell, Turnpike Troubadours, Cedric Burnside Six contemporary folk and Americana albums, all recent pressings. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit is the self-titled record from the songwriter who left Drive-By Truckers, got sober, and became the most decorated writer in Americana. Turnpike Troubadours' A Cat in the Rain is the Oklahoma band's return after a hiatus that most people assumed was permanent. Cedric Burnside's I Be Trying on Single Lock, with obi strip, won the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album; Burnside is the grandson of R.L. Burnside and carries the north Mississippi hill country tradition directly. Hayes Carll's You Get It All, Taylor McCall's Mellow War and Pony Bradshaw's Thus Spoke the Fool round out a lot drawn almost entirely from the current independent roots scene.

Lot: 219 - 6 country LPs, Zach Bryan DeAnn, Miranda Lambert Palomino, Eric Church

6 country LPs, Zach Bryan DeAnn, Miranda Lambert Palomino, Eric Church Six country albums, mostly current and in new or like-new condition. Zach Bryan's DeAnn is the early record he made in a rented Airbnb and named for his mother, who died in 2016, when he was twenty — it was recorded before he left the Navy and before any label was involved, and it is the album his audience treats as the real origin point. Miranda Lambert's Palomino is a road-trip concept record featuring The B-52's. Eric Church's Carolina is his second album, the one containing "Smoke a Little Smoke." Brothers Osborne's Port Saint Joe was cut in a beach house in Florida. Alabama's Greatest Hits represents the band that dominated 1980s country radio, and The Oh Hellos' Dear Wormwood brings a folk concept album based on C. S. Lewis.

Lot: 220 - 8 Blue Note jazz LPs, Art Blakey Mosaic, Lee Morgan The Rajah, Hank Mobley

8 Blue Note jazz LPs, Art Blakey Mosaic, Lee Morgan The Rajah, Hank Mobley Eight Blue Note hard bop albums, horn-led throughout. Art Blakey's Mosaic is the Jazz Messengers at their most celebrated lineup — Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton and Blakey's drums; the band functioned for thirty-five years as the finishing school through which most great post-war jazz musicians passed. Lee Morgan's The Rajah is a trumpet-led quintet session shelved for two decades and released only after his death. Hank Mobley's No Room for Squares is one of the tenor saxophonist's strongest, with Lee Morgan alongside him. Records from the label whose combination of Rudy Van Gelder's engineering, Reid Miles's design and Alfred Lion's willingness to pay for rehearsal time produced the most consistent catalogue in jazz. Presented as reissues.

Lot: 221 - 9 jazz LPs, Herbie Mann at the Village Gate, Charlie Parker Memorial

9 jazz LPs, Herbie Mann at the Village Gate, Charlie Parker Memorial Nine jazz albums across bebop, flute-led soul jazz and New Orleans traditional. Herbie Mann at the Village Gate is the flautist's best-known record, its side-long "It Ain't Necessarily So" and the hit "Comin' Home, Baby" driven by Ray Mantilla and Chief Bey's percussion — Mann was among the first jazz musicians to build a career on the flute as a lead instrument and among the first to record with African and Brazilian players as equals. Charlie Parker Memorial collects alto saxophone sides from the man who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented bebop and died at thirty-four with a coroner estimating his age at over fifty. New Orleans Jamboree brings the traditional end. A broad survey lot rather than a specialist one.

Lot: 222 - 5 alt rock/punk LPs, Refused The Shape of Punk to Come, Audioslave, Flaming Lips

5 alt rock/punk LPs, Refused The Shape of Punk to Come, Audioslave, Flaming Lips Five alternative rock and punk albums, several of them era-defining. Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come is the Swedish band's 1998 final album — they broke up almost immediately after making it, it sold almost nothing at the time, and it has since become one of the most cited hardcore records ever released. The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is Wayne Coyne's orchestral-pop concept album about a girl fighting robots, and it took a band once known for noise experiments onto daytime radio. Audioslave pairs Chris Cornell with the instrumental core of Rage Against the Machine. Also here: Bush's The Science of Things and Green Day's International Superhits!

Lot: 223 - 12 jazz LPs, Preservation Hall, Dave Brubeck Countdown, Stanley Turrentine

12 jazz LPs, Preservation Hall, Dave Brubeck Countdown, Stanley Turrentine Twelve jazz albums with a strong New Orleans traditional component. Jazz at Preservation Hall 1 features the Eureka Brass Band, and Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band documents pianist Emma Barrett — the Preservation Hall recordings were made in the early 1960s to document elderly New Orleans musicians who had been playing since the music's beginnings and whose tradition was thought to be dying out. Dave Brubeck's Countdown: Time in Outer Space is the third of the "Time" albums, after Time Out and Time Further Out, dedicated to astronaut John Glenn and continuing the unusual-meter experiments with Paul Desmond on alto. Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song is CTI-era tenor saxophone with Brazilian arrangements by Eumir Deodato. A lot that spans roughly sixty years of the music.

Lot: 224 - 4 indie/rock LPs, Beck Sea Change, Coldplay Parachutes, Snow Patrol

4 indie/rock LPs, Beck Sea Change, Coldplay Parachutes, Snow Patrol Four indie and alternative rock albums. Beck's Sea Change (2002) is the outlier and the best record here — made after a long relationship ended, it abandoned the sample-collage approach of Odelay for orchestral folk arranged by his father David Campbell, and it is the album critics consistently name as his finest. Coldplay's Parachutes is the debut that produced "Yellow" and won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album. Snow Patrol's Eyes Open contains "Chasing Cars," which became one of the most-played songs of the decade in Britain. Kings of Leon's Can We Please Have Fun is their 2024 album. Distinctive sleeve art on each, reflecting quite different moments in guitar-based pop.

Lot: 225 - 5 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Volume 2, Burrell & Coltrane, Donald Byrd

5 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Volume 2, Burrell & Coltrane, Donald Byrd Five jazz albums, trumpet- and guitar-led. Miles Davis Volume 2 collects Blue Note sides from the early 1950s, when Davis was recovering from addiction and rebuilding a career that had stalled after the Birth of the Cool sessions. Kenny Burrell with John Coltrane is the 1958 Prestige date pairing the guitarist with Coltrane on tenor — an unusual meeting, since Coltrane rarely recorded in a guitar-led setting, and it produced a memorable duo reading of "Why Was I Born?". Donald Byrd's Best surveys the trumpeter's Blue Note years. The Modest Jazz Trio's Good Friday Blues is a drum-less trio with Jim Hall on guitar, Red Mitchell on piano and Red Kelly on bass. ScoLoHoFo's Oh! is the John Scofield, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland and Al Foster supergroup from 2003.

Lot: 226 - 5 country LPs, Sturgill Simpson Sound & Fury, Charley Crockett, Eric Church

5 country LPs, Sturgill Simpson Sound & Fury, Charley Crockett, Eric Church Five contemporary country and roots albums. Sturgill Simpson's Sound & Fury is the deliberate hard left turn — a synth-and-fuzz rock record released with an accompanying anime film on Netflix, made specifically to confound anyone expecting another country album from him. Charley Crockett's In the Night comes from the prolific Texas singer who has released well over a dozen albums in a decade. Ray LaMontagne's God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album and was self-produced with the Pariah Dogs. Eric Church's Mr. Misunderstood was released with no advance notice, mailed directly to fan club members before anyone else heard it. John R. Miller's Heat Comes Down brings West Virginia songwriting.

Lot: 227 - 9 jazz/fusion LPs, Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Herbie Hancock Thrust

9 jazz/fusion LPs, Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Herbie Hancock Thrust Nine albums tracking jazz from modal beginnings into electric fusion. Miles Davis's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is the soundtrack he improvised in a single night in December 1957, watching the film loop on a screen in a Paris studio with a pick-up French rhythm section — arguably the first great modal jazz recording and the direct precursor to Kind of Blue. Porgy and Bess is the Gil Evans orchestral collaboration from the following year. Herbie Hancock's Thrust is the follow-up to Head Hunters, with Mike Clark's drumming making it the funk musicians' favourite of the two. Weather Report continue the line into the Zawinul and Shorter era. Together the lot shows the same handful of musicians reinventing the music roughly every four years.

Lot: 228 - 7 jazz LPs, Monk Brilliant Corners, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny Watercolors

7 jazz LPs, Monk Brilliant Corners, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny Watercolors Seven jazz albums, guitar- and piano-heavy, spanning thirty years. Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners is the 1956 Riverside session generally considered his masterpiece — the title track proved so difficult that no complete take was ever achieved and the issued version is spliced together, with Sonny Rollins on tenor and Max Roach on drums. Kenny Burrell's All Day Long is a Prestige blowing session; Tin Tin Deo is later Burrell. Wes Montgomery's guitar and Jimmy Smith's organ cover the soul-jazz side. Pat Metheny's Watercolors is his second ECM album and the first with Lyle Mays, the partnership that defined the Pat Metheny Group's sound for the next twenty-five years. Doc Severinsen's Blue Moods brings the Tonight Show bandleader's trumpet.

Lot: 229 - 7 jazz LPs, Grant Green Green Is Beautiful, Donald Byrd A New Perspective

7 jazz LPs, Grant Green Green Is Beautiful, Donald Byrd A New Perspective Seven Blue Note and Prestige albums, guitar- and piano-led. Grant Green's Green Is Beautiful is the guitarist's funk-era record, with Idris Muhammad on drums, and it has been sampled repeatedly by hip-hop producers. Donald Byrd's A New Perspective is the trumpeter's most ambitious Blue Note session, built around an eight-voice gospel choir arranged by Duke Pearson, and containing "Cristo Redentor." Herbie Nichols's trio recordings are among the label's great overlooked bodies of work — a pianist and composer who died at forty-four having spent most of his career playing Dixieland for money while writing music nobody would record. Also here: the Red Garland Trio, Joe Henderson on tenor, and pianist Jack Wilson.

Lot: 230 - 6 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith Midnight Special, Elvin Jones Poly-Currents, Chet Baker

6 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith Midnight Special, Elvin Jones Poly-Currents, Chet Baker Six jazz albums covering organ, piano, trumpet and drums. Jimmy Smith's Midnight Special is Hammond organ soul jazz with Stanley Turrentine on tenor and Kenny Burrell on guitar — the definitive statement of that particular front line. Elvin Jones's Poly-Currents is drum-led post-Coltrane jazz; Jones was the engine of the classic Coltrane quartet and changed what jazz drumming could be by playing in several meters simultaneously. Donald Byrd's Places and Spaces is the Mizell Brothers-produced jazz-funk album that became one of the most heavily sampled records in the Blue Note catalogue. McCoy Tyner's Time for Tyner, Chet Baker's Mr. B and Johnny Griffin's Live at Ronnie Scott's complete the set. Presented as reissues.

Lot: 231 - 6 Blue Note LPs, Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl, Grant Green, Jackie McLean

6 Blue Note LPs, Tone Poet and Classic Vinyl, Grant Green, Jackie McLean Six Blue Note albums, four of them current audiophile reissues — the strongest single jazz lot here for pressing quality. Grant Green's Green Street and Alive! are Classic Vinyl Series pressings on 180g, all-analog and mastered by Kevin Gray; Green Street is his guitar trio record with only bass and drums behind him, leaving the phrasing completely exposed. Horace Silver's Silver's Serenade and Kenny Dorham and Jackie McLean's Inta Somethin' are Tone Poet Series editions, the premium tier with tip-on gatefold jackets and RTI pressing. Jackie McLean's Action Action Action is alto saxophone with Charles Tolliver, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee and Billy Higgins. Wayne Shorter's Odyssey of Iska is his most impressionistic Blue Note date. Excellent condition throughout.

Lot: 232 - 7 jazz LPs, Art Blakey Moanin', Monk Alone in San Francisco, Sonny Clark Trio

7 jazz LPs, Art Blakey Moanin', Monk Alone in San Francisco, Sonny Clark Trio Seven jazz albums, piano- and drum-led. Art Blakey's Moanin' is the Jazz Messengers record that defined hard bop — Bobby Timmons's gospel-inflected title theme and Benny Golson's writing gave the band an identity it kept for decades. Thelonious Monk appears twice: Alone in San Francisco is solo piano, recorded over two days at Fugazi Hall and among the best places to hear his touch unaccompanied, and Big Band and Quartet in Concert is the Hall Overton-arranged large-group Columbia date. Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note 81579) comes from a pianist whose records sold poorly in America, became objects of devotion in Japan, and who died at thirty-one. Bobby Hutcherson's Oblique is vibraphone-led, Art Taylor's A.T.'s Delight drum-led, and Gene Harris's Live at the 'It Club' is a Classic Vinyl Series pressing.

Lot: 233 - 5 indie/alt rock LPs, Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head, Kings of Leon

5 indie/alt rock LPs, Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head, Kings of Leon Five indie and alternative rock albums. Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second album and the one that made them a stadium band, containing "Clocks," "The Scientist" and "In My Place" and winning Best Alternative Album at the Grammys. Kings of Leon's Only by the Night is the record where the Followill brothers stopped being a cult garage-rock act and became a global one, on the back of "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody." Ray LaMontagne brings the raspy, Van Morrison-shadowed songwriting he built slowly out of rural Maine. The Revivalists complete the lot with New Orleans-rooted roots-rock. All in vinyl format with original sleeve art.

Lot: 234 - 7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Live-Evil, Monk Underground, Stanley Turrentine

7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis Live-Evil, Monk Underground, Stanley Turrentine Seven jazz albums from Columbia, Blue Note and Impulse, several from the music's most turbulent period. Miles Davis's Live-Evil is the electric double album assembled from a Washington club residency with John McLaughlin and Keith Jarrett, spliced together with studio material by Teo Macero — one of the most aggressive records Davis ever released. Thelonious Monk's Underground carries the famous sleeve of the pianist as a French Resistance fighter, which won a Grammy for its packaging. Stanley Turrentine's Hustlin' is tenor saxophone with Shirley Scott's organ. Kenny Burrell's guitar completes a lot that moves from straight hard bop to fusion without a break, and shows why the late 1960s and early 1970s remain the most argued-over years in the music.

Lot: 235 - 9 jazz LPs, Getz/Gilberto, Miles & Monk at Newport, Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis

9 jazz LPs, Getz/Gilberto, Miles & Monk at Newport, Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis Nine jazz albums covering bossa nova, hard bop and the piano trio. Getz/Gilberto is the record that broke bossa nova worldwide — Stan Getz's tenor with João Gilberto's guitar, Antonio Carlos Jobim at the piano and Astrud Gilberto singing "The Girl from Ipanema" — and it was the first jazz album to win the Grammy for Album of the Year. Miles & Monk at Newport pairs two festival sets from 1958 and 1963 on one record. Dave Brubeck's Gone with the Wind was recorded immediately before Time Out. Ramsey Lewis's Bach to the Blues and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis's Jaws in Orbit bring piano trio and tenor-and-organ respectively. Also here: Friday Night at the Blackhawk, Happy Moods, Willow Weep for Me and The Happy People.

Lot: 236 - 12 1980s LPs, INXS Kick, Wham! Make It Big, Pet Shop Boys, Saturday Night Fever

12 1980s LPs, INXS Kick, Wham! Make It Big, Pet Shop Boys, Saturday Night Fever Twelve albums from the 1980s chart mainstream and its immediate run-up. INXS's Kick is the Australian band's breakthrough, four top-ten American singles from one record. Wham!'s Make It Big is the album that made George Michael a global star before he dismantled the image entirely. Pet Shop Boys' Please is the debut containing "West End Girls," a record that put literate, ironic synth-pop at number one on both sides of the Atlantic. Also here: Modern English's I Melt With You, Thompson Twins' Set, Bon Jovi's debut, Culture Club's Kissing to Be Clever, The Best of Kansas, War's Galaxy, a Toni Basil "Mickey" twelve-inch, and the Saturday Night Fever and Eddie and the Cruisers soundtracks. Conditions vary, as typical for records of this vintage.

Lot: 237 - 4 Pink Floyd LPs, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Final Cut

4 Pink Floyd LPs, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Final Cut Four Pink Floyd albums covering the band's imperial decade and its collapse. The Dark Side of the Moon spent an extraordinary number of weeks on the Billboard chart and remains one of the best-selling albums ever made. Wish You Were Here is the tribute to Syd Barrett, built around "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and recorded, by several accounts, on a day Barrett himself walked unrecognised into the studio. The Wall is Roger Waters's double concept album about isolation and its stage show; The Final Cut, subtitled a requiem for the post-war dream, is effectively a Waters solo record and the last with him in the band. Original vinyl format with the distinctive Hipgnosis-era packaging throughout.

Lot: 238 - 4 grunge LPs, Pearl Jam Ten, Alice In Chains Dirt, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction

4 grunge LPs, Pearl Jam Ten, Alice In Chains Dirt, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction Four albums at the centre of the grunge and alternative explosion. Pearl Jam's Ten sold over ten million copies in the United States and made Eddie Vedder a reluctant generational figure. Alice In Chains' Dirt is the heaviest and darkest of the four, written largely about Layne Staley's addiction, and is generally reckoned the band's best. Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger arrived two weeks after Nevermind and was overshadowed by it despite being the more musically adventurous record, with Kim Thayil's unusual tunings and Matt Cameron's odd meters. Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking predates all of them and is arguably the record that opened the door — Perry Farrell went on to found Lollapalooza and change how American touring worked.

Lot: 239 - 5 jazz LPs, John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Charlie Hunter, Stan Getz

5 jazz LPs, John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Charlie Hunter, Stan Getz Five jazz albums spanning saxophone-led classic and contemporary. John Coltrane needs no introduction — the tenor and soprano saxophonist whose trajectory from Miles Davis's sideman through A Love Supreme to the free playing of his last years is the most-discussed arc in the music. The Charles Lloyd Quartet is the group with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette that played the Fillmore alongside rock bands and sold a million copies of Forest Flower, briefly making jazz a counterculture music. Charlie Hunter's trio features the guitarist who plays bass and guitar lines simultaneously on a custom eight-string. Stan Getz brings the most beautiful tenor tone in jazz, and Joe Jackson completes the lot from the pop side of the same interest.

Lot: 240 - 8 jazz LPs, 3 Horace Silver, Ramsey Lewis The In Crowd, J.J. Johnson, Lou Rawls

8 jazz LPs, 3 Horace Silver, Ramsey Lewis The In Crowd, J.J. Johnson, Lou Rawls Eight jazz albums, piano-led with strong soul-jazz content. Three are Horace Silver's Silver 'n Brass, Silver 'n Wood and Silver 'n Percussion — a themed series from the pianist and composer who co-founded the Jazz Messengers, wrote "Song for My Father" and "Nica's Dream," and did more than anyone to give hard bop its gospel and Latin inflections. Ramsey Lewis's The In Crowd is the piano trio record that went gold and won a Grammy, an unheard-of commercial result for instrumental jazz in 1965. J.J. Johnson's J.J.'s Broadway comes from the trombonist who proved bebop could be played on the instrument at all. Also here: Les McCann, Bennie Green, Lou Rawls singing "Stormy Monday," and Jimmy Smith's A New Sound... A New Star.

Lot: 241 - 2 Beastie Boys albums, License to Ill and Paul’s Boutique

2 Beastie Boys albums, License to Ill and Paul's Boutique The Beastie Boys' first two albums, and two very different records. Licensed to Ill (1986) was the first hip-hop album to reach number one on the Billboard chart — produced by Rick Rubin, built on Led Zeppelin and AC/DC samples, and successful enough that the group spent years distancing themselves from its frat-party persona. Paul's Boutique (1989) sold poorly on release and is now regarded as one of the most important records in hip-hop: made with the Dust Brothers from hundreds of samples layered in a way that copyright law made impossible to repeat within a few years of its release. Both in vinyl format with their original sleeves.

Lot: 242 - 8 jazz LPs, signed Jimmy McDaniels, Ella and Basie, Clark Terry, Wes Montgomery

8 jazz LPs, signed Jimmy McDaniels, Ella and Basie, Clark Terry, Wes Montgomery Eight jazz albums with two unusual private items. Jimmy McDaniels at Aristo's is a self-released piano record inscribed and signed in red ink, with a 2009 memorial program for the pianist laid in — the kind of local document that rarely survives at all. Jacques Gauthé's Creole Rice Jazz Band brings New Orleans clarinet on the small Elyza label. Ella and Basie: A Perfect Match on Pablo pairs Fitzgerald's voice with Count Basie's piano and orchestra at the Montreux festival. Clark Terry's Tread Ye Lightly features the trumpet and flugelhorn player who mentored Quincy Jones and Miles Davis and spent years in the Tonight Show band. Also here: Wes Montgomery's guitar, Ronnie Laws's tenor on Blue Note, Martin Denny's Exotica, and William Donati's Tampa label piano date.

Lot: 243 - 4 Foo Fighters LPs, Wasting Light, One by One, But Here We Are, Greatest Hits

4 Foo Fighters LPs, Wasting Light, One by One, But Here We Are, Greatest Hits Four Foo Fighters albums. Wasting Light was recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl's garage with Butch Vig producing — Vig having produced Nevermind twenty years earlier — and it won five Grammys including Best Rock Album. One by One is the record the band scrapped and re-recorded from scratch after Grohl nearly walked away. But Here We Are (2023) is the album made after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and Grohl's mother in the same year, and it is unusually direct about both. Greatest Hits covers the singles. A band that began as Grohl alone playing every instrument on a cassette after Nirvana ended, and became one of the last genuinely arena-scale rock acts.

Lot: 244 - 12 modern jazz LPs, 4 Julian Lage, Robert Glasper, Aaron Parks

12 modern jazz LPs, 4 Julian Lage, Robert Glasper, Aaron Parks Twelve albums of current jazz, guitar- and piano-led. Four are Julian Lage records — Squint, View With a Room, Arclight and Modern Lore — from the guitarist first filmed as an eight-year-old prodigy in an Oscar-nominated documentary, who has since built a body of work that draws on Americana and early jazz as much as bebop. Robert Glasper's In My Element comes from the pianist whose Black Radio albums broke down the wall between jazz and contemporary R&B and hip-hop, and who has worked with Kendrick Lamar and Erykah Badu. Aaron Parks's Invisible Cinema is a Blue Note debut that has aged into a modern reference point. A coherent, well-chosen lot for a buyer interested in where the music is now rather than where it was.

Lot: 245 - 7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis In a Silent Way, Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles

7 jazz LPs, Miles Davis In a Silent Way, Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles Seven albums, most from Blue Note's strongest years. Miles Davis's In a Silent Way is the 1969 record that began his electric period — Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul all on keyboards at once, John McLaughlin on guitar, and Teo Macero editing two long sides out of the session tapes. Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles is the quartet date with Freddie Hubbard containing "Cantaloupe Island," later the basis of Us3's hit. Freddie Hubbard's Open Sesame is the trumpeter's leader debut at twenty-two. Gloria Coleman's Soul Sisters is a rare organ-led date by a woman on the label. Also here: Miles Davis Volume 1, Cliff Jordan's Cliff Craft on tenor, and Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House, the German pianist who recorded three albums and then left music entirely to work in a garment factory.

Lot: 246 - 8 jazz LPs, Lee Morgan Search for the New Land, Horace Silver, Chet Baker

8 jazz LPs, Lee Morgan Search for the New Land, Horace Silver, Chet Baker Eight jazz albums mixing Blue Note classics with contemporary sessions. Lee Morgan's Search for the New Land is the trumpeter's most exploratory record, recorded weeks after the Sidewinder session, before that album became a hit, then shelved and released two years later — Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green and Reggie Workman all appear. Horace Silver's Blowin' the Blues Away is the pianist's quintet at its tightest. Chet Baker appears twice, including She Was Too Good to Me, the 1974 CTI comeback with Paul Desmond and Ron Carter made after years of addiction and a beating that cost him his teeth. Joe Lovano's Trio Fascination brings tenor saxophone into the present with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones. A well-balanced trumpet-and-tenor lot.

Lot: 247 - 4 indie/pop LPs, Taylor Swift Midnights, 2 Florence + the Machine

4 indie/pop LPs, Taylor Swift Midnights, 2 Florence + the Machine Four contemporary indie and pop albums. Taylor Swift's Midnights appears in the Moonstone Blue coloured-vinyl edition, one of four variants issued so that the sleeves combine into a clock face — the album broke the record for vinyl sales in a single week in the United States and Swift is credited with driving much of the format's recent commercial revival. Two Florence + the Machine records, Ceremonials and Dance Fever, cover the arc from Florence Welch's harp-and-choir maximalism to her pandemic-written return. Nathaniel Rateliff's Falling Faster Than You Can Run on Mod y Vi is the quiet solo folk album he made before the Night Sweats gave him a soul-revue career.

Lot: 248 - 11 LPs, Bob Marley Legend, Jimmy Cliff, Roberta Flack First Take

11 LPs, Bob Marley Legend, Jimmy Cliff, Roberta Flack First Take Eleven albums across reggae, soul and jazz. Bob Marley and the Wailers' Legend is the best-selling reggae album ever released and has spent decades on the Billboard chart; it is the record through which most of the world first heard the music. Jimmy Cliff's The Power and the Glory comes from the singer who, through The Harder They Come, did as much as Marley to carry Jamaican music abroad. Roberta Flack's First Take is the 1969 debut that sat unnoticed for three years until Clint Eastwood used "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in Play Misty for Me and sent it to number one — Flack was a classically trained pianist teaching school before Atlantic signed her. A diverse and highly playable lot.

Lot: 249 - 7 LPs, 2 John Mayer, Fitz and the Tantrums, Anderson East

7 LPs, 2 John Mayer, Fitz and the Tantrums, Anderson East Seven albums across indie, pop and rock, in good condition with original packaging. Two John Mayer records — Born and Raised and Paradise Valley — from the period when he left the pop mainstream for Laurel Canyon-influenced songwriting, with Born and Raised featuring David Crosby and Graham Nash on backing vocals. Fitz and the Tantrums' Pickin' Up the Pieces is the Los Angeles group's debut, recorded with no guitars at all, deliberately built on organ, horns and the Motown template. Anderson East's Maybe We Never Die comes from the Alabama singer whose gravel-soul voice earned him a Grammy nomination. A varied lot of recent-era records rather than vintage pressings.

Lot: 250 - 17 LPs, 2 Jackson 5, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Slim Harpo, Elvis

17 LPs, 2 Jackson 5, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Slim Harpo, Elvis Seventeen albums across blues, soul, rock and pop. Two Jackson 5 records on Motown, ABC and Third Album, capture the group in 1970 when Michael was eleven and they placed four consecutive singles at number one. The blues content is genuinely good: B.B. King's Blues 'n' Jazz, John Lee Hooker's Born in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee, and Slim Harpo's Tip On In on Excello, the Nashville label whose swamp blues sides were a direct influence on the Rolling Stones. Shirley Scott and Kenny Burrell's Travelin' Light pairs organ with guitar on Prestige. The Duals' Stick Shift on Sue is an uncommon instrumental rock and roll record. Also here: Elvis on RCA across three records, CSNY, The Beach Boys, Harry Chapin, Gordon Lightfoot, America and Donald Fagen.

Lot: 251 - 7 sealed Americana LPs, 2 Turnpike Troubadours, Margo Price, signed Elijah Wolf

7 sealed Americana LPs, 2 Turnpike Troubadours, Margo Price, signed Elijah Wolf Seven modern country, folk and Americana albums, sealed and in new condition, with one signed. Two Turnpike Troubadours records — Diamonds & Gasoline on Bossier City and A Long Way From Your Heart — from the Oklahoma band whose fiddle-driven red dirt sound built a devoted following entirely outside Nashville radio. Margo Price's That's How Rumors Get Started was produced by Sturgill Simpson and marked her move from honky-tonk into rock; Price sold her car and wedding ring to fund her first album. Ashley McBryde's Girl Going Nowhere earned a Grammy nomination and took its title from a teacher who told her she would not make it. Elijah Wolf's Forgiving Season is signed on the front cover. Ryan Bingham and American Aquarium complete the lot.

Lot: 252 - 5 country/bluegrass LPs, Billy Strings Home, Chris Stapleton, Zac Brown Band

5 country/bluegrass LPs, Billy Strings Home, Chris Stapleton, Zac Brown Band Five modern country and bluegrass albums. Billy Strings' Home won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album and is the record that made a young flatpicker from Michigan into an arena act — Strings plays traditional bluegrass at a technical level that draws comparisons to Doc Watson while touring with jam-band lighting rigs. Chris Stapleton's Starting Over is here in a plain white sleeve with the title and artist hand-lettered. Sturgill Simpson's High Top Mountain is the self-financed honky-tonk debut. Zac Brown Band's The Foundation is the multi-platinum record containing "Chicken Fried," and Ryan Bingham's Fear and Saturday Night completes a lot that covers most of what happened in commercial and non-commercial roots music over the last fifteen years.

Lot: 253 - 7 alt rock/pop LPs, 2 R.E.M., The Cure, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers

7 alt rock/pop LPs, 2 R.E.M., The Cure, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers Seven alternative rock and pop albums from the 1990s and early 2000s. Two R.E.M. records: Green, the first album for Warner Bros. after leaving I.R.S., and Automatic for the People, the sombre 1992 album with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones arranging strings, containing "Everybody Hurts" and "Nightswimming" and generally reckoned their finest. The Cure's Greatest Hits covers Robert Smith's remarkable run of singles. No Doubt's Return of Saturn is the deliberately difficult follow-up to Tragic Kingdom. Red Hot Chili Peppers' Californication marks John Frusciante's first return to the band. Also here: Justin Timberlake's Justified and Matchbox 20's Yourself or Someone Like You.

Lot: 254 - 11 country LPs, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Red Headed Stranger, Kristofferson

11 country LPs, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Red Headed Stranger, Kristofferson Eleven classic country albums from the outlaw era and its edges. Johnny Cash at San Quentin was recorded live in the prison in 1969, produced "A Boy Named Sue," and topped the Billboard album chart for four weeks. Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger is the spare concept record Columbia mistook for a demo. Kris Kristofferson's Me and Bobby McGee comes from the Rhodes Scholar and helicopter pilot who worked as a studio janitor in Nashville and landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to get his songs heard; "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" both date from this period. Waylon Jennings completes the four principals. A mix of studio albums and hits compilations from the 1970s and 1980s.

Lot: 255 - Country/folk/bluegrass, 10 LPs, box set and 7" single, Johnny Cash, John Denver

Country/folk/bluegrass, 10 LPs, box set and 7" single, Johnny Cash, John Denver A country, folk and bluegrass group of ten LPs plus a seven-inch single, built around a substantial box set. The set, Popular Hits from Nashville, gathers 108 songs by twenty-five Nashville artists — the kind of mail-order compilation that circulated widely in the 1970s and now serves as a useful cross-section of who was recording in the city at the time. Alongside it are albums by Johnny Cash, John Denver and C.W. McCall, whose "Convoy" was a genuine cultural phenomenon during the CB radio craze and spawned a Sam Peckinpah film. A broad, playable lot spanning mainstream Nashville and the folk-country crossover of the period.

Lot: 256 - 10 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith Got My Mojo Workin', Lou Donaldson, Oscar Peterson

10 jazz LPs, Jimmy Smith Got My Mojo Workin', Lou Donaldson, Oscar Peterson Ten jazz albums, organ- and piano-led. The Incredible Jimmy Smith's Got My Mojo Workin' is Hammond organ soul jazz with Oliver Nelson arrangements; Smith took an instrument built for churches and made it the sound of the jazz club. Lou Donaldson's Mr. Shing-A-Ling is alto saxophone boogaloo — Donaldson recorded more for Blue Note than almost any other leader and his late-sixties funk sides have been sampled continuously by hip-hop producers. Oscar Peterson's The Trio captures the pianist live with Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Bob James's Three is jazz-funk with Grover Washington Jr. guesting, and its rhythm tracks are among the most-sampled in the genre. A strong lot for a groove-oriented listener.

Lot: 257 - 11 jazz LPs, The Electrifying Eddie Harris, Ahmad Jamal, Cannonball Adderley

11 jazz LPs, The Electrifying Eddie Harris, Ahmad Jamal, Cannonball Adderley Eleven jazz albums, saxophone- and piano-led. The Electrifying Eddie Harris is the record where the tenor saxophonist first ran his horn through a Varitone pickup, a move purists hated and which anticipated decades of electric saxophone; Harris also wrote "Freedom Jazz Dance," which Miles Davis made a standard. Ahmad Jamal's The Bright, The Blue and The Beautiful continues the piano trio work whose use of silence Davis studied closely. Cannonball Adderley brings alto saxophone from the man who played on Kind of Blue and then built one of the most commercially successful small groups in jazz with his brother Nat. Stan Getz supplies the tenor. A broad and consistently listenable survey rather than a specialist collection.

Lot: 258 - World music LPs and box sets, 4 Martin Denny Exotica, Youssou N'Dour, Bizet Carmen

World music LPs and box sets, 4 Martin Denny Exotica, Youssou N'Dour, Bizet Carmen A world music and exotica group running to roughly fourteen discs including two box sets. Four Martin Denny albums — Exotica, Exotica Volume II, Primitiva and Latin Village — represent the genre Denny effectively invented at the Shell Bar of the Hawaiian Village in the mid-1950s, when the resident bullfrogs answered his band and he wrote the sound into the arrangements; Exotica went to number one. Youssou N'Dour's Immigrés on Earthworks is the Senegalese mbalax record that introduced him to Western audiences before the Peter Gabriel collaborations. Music of Peru on Ethnic Folkways is a genuine field-recording document from Moses Asch's label. The box sets are Bizet's Carmen under Georg Solti with Tatiana Troyanos, Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, and a three-LP Guadalajara Brass set. Also: Hawaiian and Trinidadian steel band records.

Lot: 259 - 3 Christmas LPs, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Gregory Porter, John Denver & Muppets

3 Christmas LPs, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Gregory Porter, John Denver & Muppets Three Christmas albums from three quite different traditions. Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve and Other Stories is the 1996 rock opera that launched an annual touring phenomenon; its "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" became one of the most played holiday instrumentals in America. John Denver & The Muppets' A Christmas Together is the 1979 record from the television special, still widely regarded as one of the warmest holiday albums made and now a genuine intergenerational favourite. Gregory Porter's Christmas Wish is recent, from the Grammy-winning baritone jazz vocalist whose voice sits closer to Nat King Cole than to any contemporary. Festive artwork throughout.

Lot: 260 - 7 alt rock LPs, 4 Placebo, Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, 2 Marilyn Manson

7 alt rock LPs, 4 Placebo, Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, 2 Marilyn Manson Seven alternative rock and industrial albums in pristine condition, likely reissues or special editions. Four Placebo records — Without You I'm Nothing, Meds, Loud Like Love and Never Let Me Go — from the London trio whose androgynous presentation and Brian Molko's distinctive voice made them a major European act while remaining a cult concern in America; the title track of Without You I'm Nothing was later reissued as a single with David Bowie sharing vocals. Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral was recorded by Trent Reznor in the house where the Manson Family murders took place, sold four million copies, and is one of the most influential rock records of the decade. Two later Marilyn Manson albums, We Are Chaos and The Pale Emperor, complete a coherent lot for a single kind of buyer.

Lot: 261 - 12 soul/funk LPs, Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life, Minnie Riperton, Groove Holmes

12 soul/funk LPs, Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life, Minnie Riperton, Groove Holmes Twelve soul, funk and organ-jazz albums. Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life is the double album that closed his extraordinary run of 1970s records, debuted at number one and won Album of the Year. Minnie Riperton's Perfect Angel, here in a quadraphonic pressing, was produced by Wonder under a pseudonym and contains "Lovin' You." Richard "Groove" Holmes's Hunk-a-Funk and Brother Jack McDuff's Live! bring Hammond organ soul jazz, McDuff being the bandleader who gave George Benson his first job. Horace Silver's Serenade to a Soul Sister is piano-led Blue Note. Also here: Barbara Lewis, Diana Ross's Surrender, Mavis Staples, Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones and Jimmy Ruffin. A deep and genuinely well-chosen soul lot.

Lot: 262 - 14 soul LPs, Isaac Hayes Black Moses, Quincy Jones, The Time, Four Tops

14 soul LPs, Isaac Hayes Black Moses, Quincy Jones, The Time, Four Tops Fourteen soul and groove albums. Isaac Hayes's Black Moses is the 1971 double album issued in a sleeve that unfolds into a four-foot crucifix-shaped poster of Hayes in robes, from the writer of "Soul Man" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'" who then reinvented himself as an album artist. The Time's Ice Cream Castle is the Minneapolis group Prince assembled and secretly played most of the instruments for, with Morris Day fronting and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on their way to becoming the decade's biggest production team. Brother Jack McDuff's Moon Rappin' is Hammond organ funk on Blue Note. Also here: Quincy Jones's Mellow Madness, three Motown records, two Sarah Vaughan albums, Nat King Cole, Nancy Wilson, The Impressions and Walter Jackson's uncommon Okeh album.

Lot: 263 - 16 rock LPs, Cheap Thrills, Houses of the Holy, Bookends, Chicago box set

16 rock LPs, Cheap Thrills, Houses of the Holy, Bookends, Chicago box set Sixteen rock albums, mostly 1970s. Big Brother & the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills carries Janis Joplin's definitive performances of "Piece of My Heart" and "Ball and Chain" inside R. Crumb's comic-strip sleeve. Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy and Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends anchor the rest. Santana's self-titled lion-cover debut came out weeks after the band's Woodstock performance made them famous before they had a record in shops. Also present is a four-LP Chicago box set with booklet in an embossed white sleeve. Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Hall & Oates's Abandoned Luncheonette, Robin Trower's In City Dreams, Wings' At the Speed of Sound, Yes's 90125 and the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden complete a broad classic rock lot.

Lot: 264 - 20 rock LPs, 4 Prince, Are You Experienced, Tapestry, Meet the Beatles

20 rock LPs, 4 Prince, Are You Experienced, Tapestry, Meet the Beatles Twenty rock albums spanning the 1960s to the present. Four Prince items include Around the World in a Day, The Hits 2 and twelve-inch singles of "Mountains" and "Let's Go Crazy." The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Are You Experienced on Reprise is the debut that reset electric guitar. Two Beatles records — Meet the Beatles! on Capitol and Introducing... The Beatles on Vee-Jay, the small Chicago label that issued them in America before Capitol would. Carole King's Tapestry sold over twenty-five million copies and stayed on the chart for six years. Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door, the Eagles' Hotel California and Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All the Rest box set are also here, along with a New Orleans rock and roll anthology made for the 1984 World's Fair.

Lot: 265 - 15 rock LPs, 2 Neil Young, Harvest, After the Gold Rush, U2, Madonna

15 rock LPs, 2 Neil Young, Harvest, After the Gold Rush, U2, Madonna Fifteen rock and pop albums. Two Neil Young records — Harvest, the best-selling American album of 1972, and After the Gold Rush, recorded largely in the basement of his Topanga Canyon house — represent his strongest period. Two Neil Diamond albums from the Uni years cover the songwriter's move from Brill Building craftsman to arena act. Madonna's self-titled Sire debut and U2's The Unforgettable Fire, the Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois album that pointed toward The Joshua Tree, sit alongside Lynyrd Skynyrd's Second Helping, ELO's A New World Record and The Police's Every Breath You Take: The Singles. Tiny Tim's God Bless Tiny Tim is the genuine oddity, and a better record than its reputation suggests.

Lot: 266 - 16 rock LPs, John Lennon Imagine, 2 Foreigner, 2 Santana, 2 Mellencamp

16 rock LPs, John Lennon Imagine, 2 Foreigner, 2 Santana, 2 Mellencamp Sixteen rock albums from the 1970s and 1980s. John Lennon's Imagine on Apple is the centrepiece, the most commercially successful record of his solo career. Two Santana albums, including the lion-cover debut, and two Foreigner records, Head Games and the multi-platinum 4. Two John Mellencamp albums — Scarecrow and The Lonesome Jubilee — from the Indiana songwriter who fought his label over the Cougar name and made records about small-town American economics that sold to arena audiences anyway. Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson is here, from the singer the Beatles named as their favourite American act. Also: Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'n Roll, The Go-Go's Vacation, Genesis's 1983 self-titled, Krokus, Jethro Tull, John Stewart and Robin Trower.

Lot: 267 - Large discovery vinyl lot, Sinatra, Belafonte, Glenn Miller box sets

Large discovery vinyl lot, Sinatra, Belafonte, Glenn Miller box sets A large unsorted discovery lot weighted toward 1950s and 60s easy listening, vocal and traditional pop and light classical, with pockets of later pop, soundtracks, novelty and jazz. Identified among them: Frank Sinatra's Watertown and Sings for Only the Lonely, the latter being the Nelson Riddle-arranged album Sinatra himself named as his favourite; two Harry Belafonte Carnegie Hall albums including the complete concert in RCA Living Stereo; two Glenn Miller box sets on RCA including the Army Air Force Band; Albéniz's Iberia with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra; the D'Oyly Carte Mikado on London; Tony Bennett, Les McCann, Fred Astaire and the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes soundtrack. Lots like this are where the finds are; sold unsorted, as is.

Lot: 268 - 2 albums, Soundgarden - Superunknown, Social Distortion - Mommy’s Little Monster

2 albums, Soundgarden - Superunknown, Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster Two albums from opposite ends of the American alternative underground. Soundgarden's Superunknown (1994) is the double LP that took the band from Seattle heaviness to mainstream success, containing "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman" and built on Kim Thayil's dropped tunings and Chris Cornell's four-octave range. Social Distortion's Mommy's Little Monster (1983) is the debut from Mike Ness's Orange County band — a raw, self-released-scale punk record cut when Ness was barely out of his teens, and the album that established the roots-punk template later bands built careers on. Both in good condition with original covers and inserts.

Lot: 269 - 2 Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, Mother’s Milk and Unlimited Love

2 Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, Mother's Milk and Unlimited Love Two Red Hot Chili Peppers albums separated by more than thirty years. Mother's Milk (1989) is the record where the band's classic lineup came together: John Frusciante's first full album on guitar after Hillel Slovak's death, with Chad Smith on drums, and the source of their breakthrough cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." Unlimited Love (2022), pressed here on blue vinyl, marks Frusciante's second return to the band and reunites them with producer Rick Rubin. Between them the two records bracket the entire Frusciante era.

Lot: 489 - 17 Sealed Classical LPs — Penderecki, Britten & Rostropovich, Bernstein, Solti

17 Sealed Classical LPs — Penderecki, Britten & Rostropovich, Bernstein, Solti Seventeen sealed classical and orchestral LPs, still in factory shrink and never played. Highlights include Mstislav Rostropovich playing Britten's Cello Suites — written for him — Penderecki's St. Luke Passion paired with Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Leonard Bernstein directing the Vienna Philharmonic from the keyboard in Mozart, Solti's Chicago Beethoven Ninth, Malcolm Arnold conducting his own Fifth Symphony, Isaac Stern with Pinchas Zukerman and Barenboim, Vivaldi recorded inside St. Mark's Basilica, and Mantovani's Hollywood. If you like Radiohead's string arrangements or Jonny Greenwood's film scores, start with the Penderecki: those sliding, clustered string masses are the source Greenwood drew on, and the same sound Kubrick used in The Shining. Britten's solo cello writing is the ancestor of everything Hildur Guðnadóttir does with a single instrument. And if you like Sigur Rós, Bernstein's Nielsen Third has the same slow Nordic swell.

Lot: 490 - 15 Sealed Classical LPs — William Alwyn, Berlioz, Satie, Havergal Brian

15 Sealed Classical LPs — William Alwyn, Berlioz, Satie, Havergal Brian Fifteen sealed classical and orchestral LPs in original shrink. Includes William Alwyn's Symphonies 4 & 5 with the London Philharmonic, Antal Doráti's Paris 1917–1938 on Mercury Living Presence (Satie's Parade, Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Françaix, Auric), Colin Davis and the LSO in five Berlioz overtures, Galina Vishnevskaya singing Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with Rostropovich conducting, Handel's Serse, Telemann's Pimpinone, Havergal Brian symphonies, and the Cornell University Wind Ensemble. If you like Brian Eno or any ambient record, Satie is the origin point — Eno has named him directly, and Parade is Satie at his most deliberately strange, complete with typewriter. If you like Vampire Weekend's borrowed rhythms, Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le Toit is a French composer doing the same thing with Brazilian dance tunes in 1919. Berlioz is the wild theatrical streak that Danny Elfman inherited.

Lot: 491 - 23 Sealed Classical LPs — Amy Beach, Hovhaness, Leontyne Price, Segovia

23 Sealed Classical LPs — Amy Beach, Hovhaness, Leontyne Price, Segovia Twenty-three sealed classical and orchestral LPs, unplayed. A strong American and Eastern European mix: Amy Beach and Arthur Foote piano quintets, Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 19 "Vishnu" conducted by the composer, Leontyne Price singing Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Andrés Segovia's Castles of Spain, John Field's complete Nocturnes, Ormandy conducting William Schuman and Persichetti, Fischer-Dieskau in Richard Strauss songs, Morton Gould, Hungarian avant-garde on the UNESCO series, and the Beaux Arts Trio in Haydn. If you like ambient or Sigur Rós, go to Hovhaness first — he was writing slow modal drone music decades before anyone called it ambient. If you like lo-fi piano playlists or Chilly Gonzales, John Field literally invented the nocturne; Chopin took the form from him. Amy Beach was the first American woman to write a symphony, and her quintet has the same late-Romantic ache people chase in film scores.

Lot: 492 - 19 Sealed Classical LPs — Penderecki, Antheil, Berio, Boulez, Scriabin

19 Sealed Classical LPs — Penderecki, Antheil, Berio, Boulez, Scriabin Nineteen sealed classical and orchestral LPs — one of the strongest avant-garde lots in the sale. Penderecki's Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorio), Polymorphia and De Natura Sonoris; George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique and A Jazz Symphony; Berio, Nono and Maderna on The New Music Vol. 3; Boulez conducting Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique; Rozhdestvensky in Prokofiev; Khachaturian and Kabalevsky conducting their own concertos with Emil Gilels; Svetlanov's Scriabin Divine Poem; Boult's Vaughan Williams Ninth. If you like Nine Inch Nails or any industrial record, Antheil got there in 1924 — Ballet Mécanique was scored for player pianos, sirens and airplane propellers, and audiences rioted. If you like Jonny Greenwood, he and Penderecki collaborated directly. If you like sample-based producers such as DJ Shadow, Berio's Chemins is orchestral collage built the same way. Scriabin, meanwhile, is psychedelia sixty years early.

Lot: 493 - 15 Sealed Classical LPs — Liszt Deep Cuts, Stokowski's Bach, Boulez, Kodály

15 Sealed Classical LPs — Liszt Deep Cuts, Stokowski's Bach, Boulez, Kodály Fifteen sealed classical LPs with an unusually deep Liszt run: Earl Wild's The Daemonic Liszt, the complete Années de Pèlerinage with Edith Farnadi, the symphonic poems Prometheus and Die Ideale, Liszt choral works, and Frederick Marvin in the Ballade in B minor. Alongside them, Stokowski conducting his own Bach transcriptions with the LSO, Kodály played by Andor Foldes, Charles Rosen in Boulez's piano sonatas, Gary Karr in Koussevitzky's double bass concerto, and Ibert with Louis Frémaux. If you like guitar virtuosos — Yngwie Malmsteen, Rick Wakeman, anyone who plays too many notes on purpose — Liszt is the original. He was the first performer to cause fainting in the audience, and his technique is the direct ancestor of shred. If you like orchestral rock arrangements, Stokowski's Bach is the template: the Fantasia sound, big and unapologetically cinematic.

Lot: 494 - 25 Classical LPs — Dvorák, Janácek, Smetana, Enescu (Czech Artia Pressings)

25 Classical LPs — Dvorák, Janácek, Smetana, Enescu (Czech Artia Pressings) Twenty-five unsealed classical and orchestral LPs, heavily weighted toward Czech and Romanian repertoire on the Artia label. Four early Dvorák symphonies including "The Bells of Zlonice" with Václav Neumann and Václav Talich, Janácek's Sinfonietta and Lachian Dances, Smetana's Richard III and Wallenstein's Camp with the Czech Philharmonic, two George Enescu records under Constantin Silvestri and George Georgescu, Josef Suk's Asrael Symphony, Beecham's Delius, Ormandy's Sibelius, and Albert Schweitzer at the organ. Covers show honest shelf wear. If you like Murakami, Janácek's Sinfonietta is the record 1Q84 is built around — it opens with a wall of a dozen trumpets and sounds nothing like standard classical. If you like Americana melody, Dvorák is where a lot of it comes from; he spent three years in the United States and told American composers to listen to their own folk music.

Lot: 495 - 18 Classical LPs — Ginastera, Scriabin, Debussy, Horowitz & Richter

18 Classical LPs — Ginastera, Scriabin, Debussy, Horowitz & Richter Eighteen unsealed classical and orchestral LPs. Ginastera's Cantata para América Mágica and Chávez's Toccata for Percussion on A Percussion Spectacular; Stokowski conducting Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy; Sviatoslav Richter in twelve Scriabin études; Vladimir Horowitz's first recordings of the Pathétique, Debussy and Chopin; Ansermet's Debussy Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien; Respighi's Feste Romane with Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances; Munch's Poulenc and Stravinsky; Narciso Yepes on guitar; Boult's Hindemith. If you like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, they covered Ginastera outright — the "Toccata" on Brain Salad Surgery is his First Piano Concerto, and he approved it personally. If you like psychedelic music, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy was written by a composer who saw colours in chords and wanted the concert hall filled with perfume. Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances are the source of more film-score dread than anything else on this shelf.

Lot: 496 - 22 Jazz LPs — Ellington at Newport, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach

22 Jazz LPs — Ellington at Newport, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach Twenty-two unsealed jazz LPs spanning swing, bebop and third-stream. Ellington at Newport — the 1956 set that revived Duke's career when Paul Gonsalves played twenty-seven choruses and the crowd nearly rioted — plus Ellington's Concert in the Virgin Islands. Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet in Concert; Count Basie's E=MC² with Neal Hefti arrangements and Basie's Hall of Fame; Sonny Rollins Brass / Sonny Rollins Trio; The Modern Jazz Quartet and Orchestra; The Big Shorty Rogers Express; Woody Herman and the First Herd. Two genuine curiosities: American Jazzmen Play André Hodeir's "Essais" on Savoy, with Donald Byrd, Hal McKusick, Eddie Costa and Annie Ross reading a French critic's compositions, and Max Roach recording with the Boston Percussion Ensemble under Harold Farberman. Both are the sound of jazz musicians deliberately walking into the concert hall. Good playing condition throughout.

Lot: 497 - 12 Jazz LPs — Charlie Parker, Basie, Brubeck & a Rare Indianapolis Private Press

12 Jazz LPs — Charlie Parker, Basie, Brubeck & a Rare Indianapolis Private Press Twelve jazz LPs, a mix of sealed and opened copies. Charlie Parker on Verve; Count Basie's Basie Land; The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Gerry Mulligan on The Last Set at Newport; John Lewis's The Golden Striker on Atlantic; Pete Rugolo's Brass in Hi-Fi; Maynard Ferguson on Columbia; and Shorty Rogers' Quintet, Wherever the Five Winds Blow. The sleeper here is Jazz-O-Mania: a private-press LP by the Indianapolis Public Schools All-City Jazz Ensemble with the Broad Ripple and Northwest High School bands — and Melvin Rhyne, Wes Montgomery's organist, appearing as special guest. Records like this were pressed in tiny runs for the students' families and almost never surface; for anyone collecting Indiana jazz history it is the most interesting thing in the box. The rest of the lot is solid, playable mid-century jazz across bebop, big band and West Coast.

Lot: 498 - 14 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Prokofiev, Vivaldi, Weber, Berwald, Liszt

14 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Prokofiev, Vivaldi, Weber, Berwald, Liszt Fourteen sealed classical and orchestral box sets, all in original shrink. Prokofiev's complete Romeo and Juliet with André Previn and the LSO and his ballet The Stone Flower under Rozhdestvensky; Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina; Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans; Weber's Euryanthe with a young Jessye Norman and Nicolai Gedda; Martinu's opera Julietta from Prague; the complete Robert and Clara Schumann piano trios with the Beaux Arts Trio; Franz Berwald's four symphonies; Liszt's Christus; and two volumes of the Survey of the World's Greatest Organ Music. If you like film trailers, Previn's Romeo and Juliet contains the Dance of the Knights — the stalking brass theme licensed into a thousand adverts and sampled by Robbie Williams. If you like Sibelius or Nielsen, Berwald is the Swedish outlier who got there first and was ignored for a century. Weber, meanwhile, is the missing link to Wagner.

Lot: 499 - 33 Sealed Classical LPs — Heifetz, Korngold Film Scores, Berio, Beecham's Elgar

33 Sealed Classical LPs — Heifetz, Korngold Film Scores, Berio, Beecham's Elgar Thirty-three sealed classical and orchestral LPs, unplayed. Jascha Heifetz on two records including the Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts; Charles Gerhardt's Elizabeth and Essex: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Bernard Herrmann conducting A Musical Garland of the Seasons; Berio's Sequenza VI and Chemins with Walter Trampler; Beecham's Elgar Enigma Variations; Fischer-Dieskau singing Liszt; Boskovsky's 1970 Vienna New Year's Concert; Lennox Berkeley on Lyrita; Barber and Delius violin concertos; Scriabin sonatas with Lazar Berman. If you like John Williams, the Korngold record is the one to play first — Star Wars is openly modelled on Korngold's Kings Row, and Williams has said so. If you like anything Bernard Herrmann scored — Psycho, Vertigo, Taxi Driver — here he is conducting concert music instead. Berio's collage technique is where sample-based production begins.

Lot: 500 - 7 Jazz LPs — Buck Clayton Jam Session, Sidney Bechet, Jimmy Rushing, Shorty Rogers

7 Jazz LPs — Buck Clayton Jam Session, Sidney Bechet, Jimmy Rushing, Shorty Rogers Seven unsealed jazz LPs from the great Columbia and RCA years of the 1950s. Jumpin' at the Woodside — a Buck Clayton Jam Session, one of the loose, long-form blowing dates Columbia let Clayton run; Sidney Bechet, the New Orleans soprano saxophone master whose vibrato is instantly recognisable a century on; Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass, the Basie band's blues shouter fronting a brass section; Portrait of Shorty with Shorty Rogers and His Giants on RCA; plus Duke Ellington, Pete Rugolo and an international jazz compilation. Together they cover a lot of ground: New Orleans, Kansas City blues, the Basie lineage and West Coast arranging, mostly recorded within a few years of each other. Sleeves show handling wear consistent with age; discs present as playable. A good, honest working lot for someone building a mid-century jazz shelf.

Lot: 501 - 17 Sealed LPs — Cabaret & Gypsy Cast Albums, Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes

17 Sealed LPs — Cabaret & Gypsy Cast Albums, Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes Seventeen sealed LPs across Broadway, easy listening and light classical, all still in shrink. The original Broadway cast recording of Cabaret with Joel Grey, Lotte Lenya and Jill Haworth; Ethel Merman in Gypsy, the Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim score often called the greatest of all Broadway books; Angela Lansbury in Dear World; Zero Mostel's Songs My Mother Never Sang on Vanguard. On the popular side: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass South of the Border, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77's Pais Tropical, The Andy Williams Show, Ray Conniff, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, and the Harry Simeone Chorale. Two 101 Strings travelogue records and the Hampton String Quartet's What If Mozart Wrote "Roll Over Beethoven" round it out, along with Arthur Fiedler's Fiedler in Rags. A broad, sealed, mint-presenting lot for a general listener.

Lot: 502 - 20 Sealed LPs — Havergal Brian, Nathaniel Dett, Bach Cantatas, Evita

20 Sealed LPs — Havergal Brian, Nathaniel Dett, Bach Cantatas, Evita Twenty sealed LPs in original shrink, mixing serious classical with theatre. Two Havergal Brian records — the English eccentric who wrote thirty-two symphonies, most after the age of eighty; R. Nathaniel Dett's piano works played by Denver Oldham; Antal Doráti conducting Be Glad Then, America! The Fun & Faith of William Billings; Bach cantatas 82 and 159; Bernard Herrmann's A Musical Garland of the Seasons; Raymond Leppard's Eighteenth Century Overtures; Khachaturian piano music; Anton Rubinstein sonatas on Hyperion. Also Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, Lloyd Webber and Rice's Evita, and two Cornell University Wind Ensemble pressings. If you like gospel-inflected songwriting, start with Dett: a Black Canadian-American composer who wove spirituals into concert piano writing, working the same ground as his contemporary Florence Price. Havergal Brian, meanwhile, is the definition of a discovery record.

Lot: 503 - 8 Indiana LPs — Marmoset, Bob Lucas, Dan Jenks & Local Private Pressings

8 Indiana LPs — Marmoset, Bob Lucas, Dan Jenks & Local Private Pressings Eight Indiana-made LPs, a mix of sealed and opened. Marmoset's Florist Fired on Joyful Noise Recordings, the Indianapolis label whose roster has included Deerhoof, of Montreal, Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr.; Eclectricity, a 1980 Bloomington folk album by Bob Lucas, Bill Schwarz and Miriam Sturm; Dan Jenks's Say No More, which lists Shawn Phillips as a guest; The Keithe Lowrie Duet; plus Abstractions' Check It Out and Quinn's Slow Down. This is regional private-press material — pressed in small numbers, sold at shows and local shops, and rarely reissued. That is exactly what makes it interesting: records like these are how a music scene documents itself, and the Indiana folk, rock and indie thread running through this lot is not something you can assemble by searching a catalogue.

Lot: 504 - 6 Sealed Jazz-Rock Fusion LPs — Bob James, Don Ellis, Focus 3, Paul Winter

6 Sealed Jazz-Rock Fusion LPs — Bob James, Don Ellis, Focus 3, Paul Winter Six sealed LPs of rock, jazz and fusion, never played, still in factory shrink. Bob James's Ivory Coast — James being the keyboardist whose "Nautilus" became one of the most sampled breaks in hip-hop history; The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground, from the trumpeter who built a big band around odd time signatures and quarter-tone trumpet and scored The French Connection; Focus 3, the double album from the Dutch progressive group best known for the yodelling guitar workout "Hocus Pocus"; and Paul Winter, whose consort recorded with whale and wolf song and effectively invented a genre. All four principals were working the same seam from different angles: what happens when jazz players stop respecting the boundary with rock, folk and the natural world. Mint-presenting sealed copies throughout, which is increasingly hard to find for early-seventies fusion.

Lot: 505 - 7 Dave Brubeck LPs — Time Further Out, Bravo! Brubeck!, Points on Jazz

7 Dave Brubeck LPs — Time Further Out, Bravo! Brubeck!, Points on Jazz Seven unsealed Dave Brubeck LPs covering the Quartet's most adventurous decade. Time Further Out: Miró Reflections, the follow-up to Time Out that pushes further into 5/4, 7/4 and 9/8; Time In; Bravo! Brubeck!, recorded live in Mexico with the Quartet absorbing Mexican folk rhythms; The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe; My Favorite Things; Anything Goes!, the Quartet playing Cole Porter; and Gold & Fizdale Play Dave Brubeck's Points on Jazz, a two-piano ballet score with Carmen McRae singing the theme. Brubeck's whole project was importing rhythms other American jazz musicians were not using — Turkish, Mexican, Eastern European — and making them swing anyway. The Points on Jazz record is the outlier worth hearing: Brubeck writing for classical pianists rather than his own band. Sleeves show shelf wear; discs present as playable.

Lot: 506 - 8 Classical Box Sets — Berlioz Requiem, Strauss Elektra, Leontyne Price, Haydn

8 Classical Box Sets — Berlioz Requiem, Strauss Elektra, Leontyne Price, Haydn Eight unsealed classical and orchestral box sets, mostly mid-century pressings. Berlioz's Requiem with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony on RCA Living Stereo; Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker and Erich Leinsdorf; Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, also with Price and Leinsdorf, and Elektra on Deutsche Grammophon; Berlioz's Les Troyens with Jon Vickers under Colin Davis; Antal Doráti's Haydn Symphonies 93–104; Orff's Oedipus der Tyrann; and Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore from the D'Oyly Carte company. If you like immersive, spatial recordings, the Berlioz Requiem is the one: it calls for four separate brass bands placed at the corners of the hall, which is surround sound designed in 1837. Strauss's Elektra is a ninety-minute scream of an opera and remains one of the most violent scores ever written for a theatre.

Lot: 507 - 15 Classical Box Sets — Wagner, Britten's War Requiem, Schoenberg Gurre-Lieder

15 Classical Box Sets — Wagner, Britten's War Requiem, Schoenberg Gurre-Lieder Fifteen unsealed classical and orchestral box sets. Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Rudolf Kempe and the Berlin Philharmonic; Britten's War Requiem conducted by the composer with Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears and Fischer-Dieskau — the three soloists he wrote it for, from the three nations that fought the war; Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder under Rafael Kubelík; Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten; Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher with Ormandy; Walton's Troilus and Cressida with Schwarzkopf; Doráti's Tchaikovsky suites; complete Schubert piano sonatas and quartets on Vox. If you like maximalism — Sufjan Stevens at full orchestral tilt, or Sigur Rós building for ten minutes — Gurre-Lieder is the extreme case: five choirs, an enormous orchestra, and a score so large Schoenberg needed custom manuscript paper. The Britten is one of the great recordings of the century by any measure.

Lot: 508 - 44 LPs — Copland's Billy the Kid, Bartók, Oistrakh, Flower Drum Song

44 LPs — Copland's Billy the Kid, Bartók, Oistrakh, Flower Drum Song Forty-four unsealed LPs, broader than the count suggests: American concert music, chamber works, a Broadway cast album and a jazz-percussion record all sit in the same box. Copland's Billy the Kid with William Schuman's Undertow; Bartók's Divertimento for Strings and his Contrasts played by Reginald Kell; David Oistrakh in Glazunov with Daniil Shafran in Kabalevsky; Michael Tippett's Piano Concerto with John Ogdon and Colin Davis; Samuel Barber's Summer Music with the New York Woodwind Quintet; Carlos Chávez; Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy; Pete Rugolo's Percussion at Work; and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Flower Drum Song cast album directed by Gene Kelly. If you like anything that sounds like the American West — film scores, ad music, Sufjan Stevens' wide-open passages — Copland's Billy the Kid is the source code. Bartók's Contrasts was written for Benny Goodman, who plays jazz clarinet in a concert piece.

Lot: 509 - 30 Sealed Classical LPs — Rubinstein, Stokowski, James Galway, Copland

30 Sealed Classical LPs — Rubinstein, Stokowski, James Galway, Copland Thirty sealed classical and orchestral LPs in original shrink. Artur Rubinstein playing Chopin with Ormandy and the Philadelphia; Leopold Stokowski conducting Bizet's Carmen and L'Arlésienne suites; James Galway in Rodrigo's Concierto Pastoral and Fantasía para un Gentilhombre; Copland conducting his own chamber music with Isaac Stern; Pinchas Zukerman in Verdi and Rossini; Milhaud's Sacred Service under the composer; Carl Orff choral works from Prague; Eduardo Mata in Chávez; Allan Pettersson's Seventh with Doráti; Bruckner, Charpentier, Renaissance dances and English medieval carols. If you like Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain, that whole record grew out of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez — Galway is playing Rodrigo here, and the Spanish modal colour is the same. Stokowski is the conductor who made Fantasia, and his Bizet is deliberately lush in a way purists disliked and everyone else enjoys.

Lot: 510 - 31 Sealed Classical LPs — Villa-Lobos, Gottschalk, Lejaren Hiller, Antheil

31 Sealed Classical LPs — Villa-Lobos, Gottschalk, Lejaren Hiller, Antheil Thirty-one sealed classical LPs, weighted toward twentieth-century American and Latin American music and never played. Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5; Gottschalk's A Night in the Tropics with Morton Gould's Latin-American Symphonette under Abravanel; Lejaren Hiller's Machine Music for Piano, Percussion and Tape; George Antheil's violin and piano music; Lukas Foss with Yehudi Menuhin; Leon Kirchner's Second Quartet; Kodály and Stravinsky under Ferenc Fricsay; the Locke Brass Consort; Rochberg and Shulamit Ran on Turnabout. There is a local record here too: 20th Century American Organ Music, recorded by David Mulbury on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis. If you like electronic music, Hiller co-wrote the first score composed by a computer — every generative and algorithmic record since owes him. Villa-Lobos is Bach rewritten through Brazil, and it leads directly to Jobim and bossa nova.

Lot: 511 - 28 LPs — Bacharach, Mancini, Sondheim's Company, Streisand's Debut

28 LPs — Bacharach, Mancini, Sondheim's Company, Streisand's Debut Twenty-eight LPs, sealed and opened, across film music, pop and Broadway. Burt Bacharach's original score for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Henry Mancini's Our Man in Hollywood; Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass; Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits; two Percy Faith records; Joan Baez's Blessed Are…; Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77's Primal Roots. The theatre side is strong: Sondheim's Company, the 1970 show that broke the musical open and is still being revived; 1776; Tony Randall in Oh Captain!; and I Can Get It For You Wholesale, which is the record where a nineteen-year-old Barbra Streisand sings "Miss Marmelstein" and becomes famous overnight. Also here: Itzhak Perlman and John Williams — the guitarist, not the composer — playing Paganini and Giuliani, and John Williams with André Previn in guitar concertos.

Lot: 512 - 22 Classical LPs — Ligeti's Atmosphères, Perlman, Stravinsky, Gardiner

22 Classical LPs — Ligeti's Atmosphères, Perlman, Stravinsky, Gardiner Twenty-two classical and orchestral LPs, sealed and opened. Leonard Bernstein Conducts Music of Our Time, which includes Ligeti's Atmosphères and Morton Feldman with the New York Philharmonic; Stravinsky's Les Noces and Mavra; Itzhak Perlman in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Leinsdorf; John Eliot Gardiner's Scarlatti Stabat Mater; Elliott Carter's Concerto for Orchestra; Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble; Richard Stoltzman with Emanuel Ax; Puccini's Messa di Gloria with José Carreras; Bloch violin sonatas; Pettersson and Blomdahl under Doráti. If you like ambient or drone, Ligeti's Atmosphères has no melody, no rhythm and no key — it is the sound Kubrick used for the monolith in 2001, and the ancestor of everything from Tim Hecker to dark-ambient. Stravinsky's Les Noces is four pianos and percussion pounding a wedding ritual into something close to proto-techno.

Lot: 513 - 12 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Bartók Quartets, Rossini, Handel, Tippett

12 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Bartók Quartets, Rossini, Handel, Tippett Twelve sealed classical and orchestral box sets, all unopened. Bartók's six string quartets played by the New Hungarian Quartet; Rossini's Otello with José Carreras, Frederica von Stade and Samuel Ramey; Massenet's Cendrillon with von Stade, Nicolai Gedda and Julius Rudel; Handel's Rinaldo under Jean-Claude Malgoire; Cherubini's complete quartets with the Melos Quartett on Archiv; C.P.E. Bach harpsichord sonatas with Bob van Asperen; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk including the original Night on Bald Mountain; and the first recording of Tippett's opera The Knot Garden under Colin Davis. If you like the Kronos Quartet, or the unsettling string writing in modern horror, the Bartók set is the origin. His "night music" movements — insect noise, distant calls, silence used as a weapon — invented a vocabulary the whole century borrowed. Six quartets, one composer, thirty years of increasing strangeness.

Lot: 514 - 51 Classical LPs — Haydn, Rochberg, Robert Shaw Chorale, The Play of Daniel

51 Classical LPs — Haydn, Rochberg, Robert Shaw Chorale, The Play of Daniel Fifty-one unsealed classical and orchestral LPs in stereo, a genuinely wide-ranging box. Several Haydn records including the Mariazellermesse and the complete sonatas for piano with violin; Guiomar Novaes in Schumann; George Rochberg's Caprice Variations for unaccompanied violin with Zvi Zeitlin; Mitropoulos conducting Prokofiev; Robert Craft in Heinrich Schütz; Howard Hanson conducting Roger Sessions and Hovhaness; Dohnányi and Kodály. Three Robert Shaw Chorale records, Elaine Stritch in Noël Coward's Sail Away, and the Milk and Honey cast album sit alongside them. The one to look for is The Play of Daniel, a twelfth-century music drama reconstructed by New York Pro Musica. If you like Dead Can Dance, Fleet Foxes' modal harmony or anything described as "medieval-adjacent," this 1958 recording is where the early-music revival started sounding like something you would actually listen to for pleasure.

Lot: 515 - 35 Classical LPs — Poulenc's Gloria, Prokofiev, Nielsen, Angel Romero

35 Classical LPs — Poulenc's Gloria, Prokofiev, Nielsen, Angel Romero Thirty-five classical and orchestral LPs, sealed and opened. Poulenc's Gloria and Organ Concerto with Georges Prêtre and Maurice Duruflé; Vishnevskaya singing Tchaikovsky and Britten with Rostropovich at the piano; Angel Romero in Giuliani; Griffes piano works; Nielsen's Hymnus Amoris; Rameau's Zéphyre in its world-premiere recording; Isaac Stern in the premiere of André Previn's Violin Concerto; Reger, Reubke, Niels Gade, Sinding, Elgar's sacred music, and A Little Sondheim Music from the Los Angeles Vocal Arts Ensemble. The startling one is Prokofiev's Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution — Lenin's speeches set for massed choir, sirens and machine guns, so extreme the Soviets refused to perform it for decades. If you like industrial music or anything built from noise and slogans, it got there in 1937. Poulenc's Gloria, by contrast, is one of the most immediately likeable choral works of the century.

Lot: 516 - 15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Rossini, Puccini, Mascagni, Gottschalk

15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Rossini, Puccini, Mascagni, Gottschalk Fifteen sealed classical and orchestral box sets, unopened in original shrink. Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri with Teresa Berganza and Fernando Corena; Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana with Victoria de los Ángeles and Franco Corelli; the first complete stereo recordings of Puccini's Le Villi and Act II of Edgar with Renata Scotto; Tchaikovsky's rarely staged opera The Maid of Orleans with Irina Arkhipova and Rozhdestvensky; a three-volume survey of Mozart's divertimenti; Michael Ponti in Tchaikovsky's piano music; and America Sings Vol. II with the Gregg Smith Singers. The discovery is Louis Moreau Gottschalk. A New Orleans pianist who toured the Caribbean in the 1850s and wrote concert music built on Creole and Afro-Cuban rhythms, he is the clearest missing link between European piano tradition and ragtime — which is to say, between Chopin and Scott Joplin.

Lot: 517 - 15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Beverly Sills' Thaïs, Sutherland, Vivaldi

15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Beverly Sills' Thaïs, Sutherland, Vivaldi Fifteen sealed classical and orchestral box sets. Massenet's Thaïs with Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes and Nicolai Gedda under Lorin Maazel; Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge's Serate Musicali, a two-record recital of Italian and French songs by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Respighi and Fauré; the first world recording of Vivaldi's opera Il Catone in Utica with I Solisti Veneti under Claudio Scimone; Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel; Haydn's oratorio Il Ritorno di Tobia; Michael Ponti's complete Scriabin piano music Vol. III; and two volumes of Italian organ music. If you have heard a violin melody in a film and wondered what it was, there is a good chance it was the Méditation from Thaïs — Sills's recording is the one to own. The Vivaldi is a genuine first: an opera nobody had recorded until this set.

Lot: 518 - 39 Sealed Classical LPs — Stravinsky Conducts, Shostakovich 15, Dvorák, Galway

39 Sealed Classical LPs — Stravinsky Conducts, Shostakovich 15, Dvorák, Galway Thirty-nine sealed classical and orchestral LPs, mint-presenting in original shrink. Stravinsky Conducts, with the composer leading his own Danses Concertantes and Four Norwegian Moods; the world-premiere recording of Shostakovich's Fifteenth Symphony conducted by his son Maxim; Barry Tuckwell in the Haydn horn concertos; Boult's Vaughan Williams Eighth and Flos Campi; Fischer-Dieskau in Beethoven and Carl Loewe; Hermann Prey singing Beethoven arranged by Silcher; James Galway in Mercadante; Dvorák piano works with Radoslav Kvapil; the Vlach Quartet; and Beethoven's complete music for wind band. If you like odd meters — anything from Radiohead to math rock — Stravinsky conducting Stravinsky is worth hearing precisely because he is unsentimental about it; he treats his own rhythmic displacement as a mechanism, not a mood. The Shostakovich Fifteenth is his last symphony and quotes the William Tell Overture without explanation.

Lot: 519 - 57 Sealed Classical LPs — Charles Ives, George Walker, Praetorius, Gabrieli

57 Sealed Classical LPs — Charles Ives, George Walker, Praetorius, Gabrieli Fifty-seven sealed classical and orchestral LPs, the largest sealed lot in the sale. Morton Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony in Charles Ives's First Symphony, The Unanswered Question and Variations on "America"; The Music of George Walker on CRI; Michael Praetorius's polychoral Christmas music; The Glory of Gabrieli with E. Power Biggs and the Gregg Smith Singers; Honegger's Judith with Abravanel; Tippett and Iain Hamilton piano sonatas on Lyrita; Hermann Goetz's complete orchestral works; Norman Treigle; the Budapest Children's Choir at Carnegie Hall; Roland de Lassus from Prague. Two standouts. George Walker was the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. And Stephen Douglas Burton's Symphony No. 2 "Ariel" — settings of Sylvia Plath, a world-premiere recording — carries a signature on the front cover. If you like ambient tension, Ives's The Unanswered Question is a trumpet asking one phrase over motionless strings.

Lot: 520 - 15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible, Poulenc, Rossini

15 Sealed Classical Box Sets — Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible, Poulenc, Rossini Fifteen sealed classical and orchestral box sets in original shrink. Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible oratorio — the music he wrote for Eisenstein's films, assembled for the concert hall — with the USSR Symphony under Abram Stasevich, plus his comic opera The Betrothal in a Monastery; Rachmaninoff's Francesca da Rimini from the Bolshoi; Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites from the Paris Opéra; Rossini's Mosè with Giuseppe Taddei under Tullio Serafin; Paisiello's Barber of Seville, the version Rossini's later opera eclipsed; Neville Marriner's first recording of Avison's twelve concerti grossi after Scarlatti; and Carl Orff on Deutsche Grammophon. If you like modern epic film scores, the Prokofiev is the foundation. Everything from Star Wars to Gladiator descends from what he and Eisenstein worked out together: massed choir, hammering low brass, and a theme that tells you who the enemy is before anyone speaks.

Lot: 521 - 37 Classical LPs — Mahler, Schoenberg, Kodály, Alfred Deller's Purcell

37 Classical LPs — Mahler, Schoenberg, Kodály, Alfred Deller's Purcell Thirty-seven unsealed classical and orchestral LPs. Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Chamber Symphony under Jascha Horenstein; Kodály conducting his own Missa Brevis; two Haydn masses with George Barati; Mozart's Haffner Serenade under Mogens Wöldike; Campra's Requiem and Te Deum with Louis Frémaux; Dukas's Symphony in C; Franck's String Quartet; Vivaldi's Gloria; Boult's Vaughan Williams Fifth; and Mozart wind serenades with the London Baroque Ensemble. Two entry points. Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht comes years before he abandoned tonality — lush, aching, and the piece to play for anyone who thinks they dislike him. And Alfred Deller's Purcell matters because Deller single-handedly revived the countertenor voice; without him there is no Klaus Nomi singing "Cold Song," and no ANOHNI-style high male voice in art pop.

Lot: 522 - 36 Sealed Classical LPs — Hindemith, Bernstein, Beecham, Florent Schmitt

36 Sealed Classical LPs — Hindemith, Bernstein, Beecham, Florent Schmitt Thirty-six sealed classical and orchestral LPs, preserved in original shrink. Four Hindemith records including the composer conducting his own Concert Music for Strings and Brass, his Ludus Tonalis played by Käbi Laretei, and violin concertos with André Gertler; Bernstein's one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti; Beecham's Scheherazade; Previn's Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony; Florent Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé; Busoni's Indian Fantasy; Angel Romero's Classical Virtuoso; Auber's Fra Diavolo; Arnold Cooke on Lyrita; and William Schuman's Credendum with Ormandy. If you like Sondheim's Company — also in this sale — listen to Trouble in Tahiti first. Bernstein wrote it in 1952: a short, sour opera about an unhappy suburban marriage, narrated by a jazz vocal trio singing advertising copy. The satire, the trio, the suburban dread — Sondheim built on all of it eighteen years later.

Lot: 523 - 6 Sealed Jazz LPs — Duke Ellington, Chuck Mangione, Lonnie Liston Smith

6 Sealed Jazz LPs — Duke Ellington, Chuck Mangione, Lonnie Liston Smith Six sealed jazz LPs, never played. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra's Newport 1958 and his Concert of Sacred Music — the latter being the project Ellington called the most important thing he ever did, taking his band into cathedrals to perform his own liturgical music. Chuck Mangione's Children of Sanchez, the double album that won him a Grammy and put a flugelhorn on the pop charts; Maynard Ferguson's New Vintage; Lonnie Liston Smith's Exotic Mysteries, from the keyboardist whose "A Garden of Peace" became the backbone of Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents"; and Tim Timmons with the Ithaca Concert Band. A tidy spread across big band, sacred jazz, seventies crossover and spiritual jazz, all in mint-presenting sealed condition. The two Ellington records alone justify the lot; the Lonnie Liston Smith is the one crate-diggers will want.

Lot: 524 - 6 Sealed Dave Brubeck LPs — The Gates of Justice, 25th Anniversary Reunion

6 Sealed Dave Brubeck LPs — The Gates of Justice, 25th Anniversary Reunion Six sealed Dave Brubeck LPs, unplayed in original shrink. The Gates of Justice, Brubeck's 1969 cantata setting Hebrew liturgy against the words of Martin Luther King Jr., performed with the Cincinnati Brass Ensemble under Erich Kunzel and baritone McHenry Boatwright — an ambitious civil-rights work that sits well outside the Quartet's usual territory. The Last Time We Saw Paris, recorded live; Brandenburg Gate: Revisited, the Quartet with full orchestra; and The Dave Brubeck Quartet 25th Anniversary Reunion, which brought Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello back together for St. Louis Blues, Take Five and the African Times Suite. Brubeck spent his career refusing to stay in one lane — odd meters, orchestral writing, sacred music, protest music. This lot leans deliberately toward the ambitious end rather than the hits, which makes it a better listen than a greatest-hits pile.

Lot: 525 - 4 Sealed Jazz LPs — John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane & Santana

4 Sealed Jazz LPs — John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane & Santana Four sealed jazz LPs, mint-presenting in original packaging. John Coltrane's Transition, recorded in 1965 between A Love Supreme and Ascension and released after his death — the record where the classic quartet is visibly coming apart under the pressure of where he wanted to go. Keith Jarrett's Hymns / Spheres, played on the vast baroque organ at Ottobeuren Abbey, and The Celestial Hawk for orchestra and piano. And Illuminations by Devadip Carlos Santana and Turiya Alice Coltrane, the 1974 collaboration built on Alice Coltrane's harp and string arrangements. These four sit together for a reason: all of them are musicians using jazz as a vehicle for something devotional. Alice Coltrane in particular has been rediscovered by a generation of listeners through reissues and sampling, and sealed original pressings of Illuminations are not common.

Lot: 526 - 3 Sealed Mahavishnu Orchestra LPs — Birds of Fire, Apocalypse, Visions

3 Sealed Mahavishnu Orchestra LPs — Birds of Fire, Apocalypse, Visions Three sealed Mahavishnu Orchestra LPs: Birds of Fire, Apocalypse and Visions of the Emerald Beyond, all unplayed in original shrink. Birds of Fire is the group's high-water mark and one of the defining fusion albums — John McLaughlin's guitar against Jan Hammer's synthesizer, Jerry Goodman's violin and Billy Cobham's drumming, at tempos and in meters that were not supposed to be playable. Apocalypse pushes further, adding the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas with George Martin producing. Visions of the Emerald Beyond features the reconstituted second lineup. Mahavishnu is where jazz improvisation, rock volume, Indian rhythmic cycles and classical structure genuinely fused rather than merely coexisting, and the influence runs straight through to modern progressive metal and instrumental rock. Three sealed original pressings of the group's core run is an unusually clean way to acquire them.

Lot: 527 - 7 Sealed Avant-Garde LPs — Philip Glass, Stockhausen, Harry Partch, Satie

7 Sealed Avant-Garde LPs — Philip Glass, Stockhausen, Harry Partch, Satie Seven sealed LPs and quite possibly the best discovery lot in the sale, all unplayed in original shrink. Philip Glass's Dance Pieces; Karlheinz Stockhausen; Harry Partch's Delusion of the Fury; Jacob Druckman's Animus III for instruments and electronic tape; The Electronic Spirit of Erik Satie; Metamorphosis. Every name here changed what was possible. Stockhausen is on the cover of Sgt. Pepper because the Beatles were listening to him. Harry Partch rejected Western tuning outright, built his own instruments out of glass bowls and artillery casings, and invented a 43-note scale — Tom Waits has cited him directly, and you can hear it in the junkyard percussion of Swordfishtrombones. Philip Glass's repetition is the foundation Nils Frahm, Max Richter and half of modern film scoring stand on. And the Satie is his 1890s piano music rebuilt on synthesizers: the exact bridge from fin-de-siècle Paris to Brian Eno.

Lot: 528 - 2 Beatles vinyl LPs, 5 jazz CDs and VH1 100 Greatest Albums book by Jacob Hoye, Meet the Beatles (mono), Magical Mystery Tour with booklet and insert, CDs by Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington a...

2 Beatles vinyl LPs, 5 jazz CDs and VH1 100 Greatest Albums book by Jacob Hoye, Meet the Beatles (mono), Magical Mystery Tour with booklet and insert, CDs by Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis

Lot: 529 - 16 funk/soul/R&B albums, Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass, Lionel Richie and others

16 funk/soul/R&B albums, Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass, Lionel Richie and others

Lot: 530 - 11 jazz/fusion albums, Ramsay Lewis and Herby Mann

11 jazz/fusion albums, Ramsay Lewis and Herby Mann

Lot: 531 - 11 jazz albums, George Benson and Bobbi Humphrey

11 jazz albums, George Benson and Bobbi Humphrey

Lot: 532 - 14 blues albums, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and others

14 blues albums, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and others

Lot: 533 - 14 jazz albums, Duke Ellington, Grant Green, Cannonball Adderley and others

14 jazz albums, Duke Ellington, Grant Green, Cannonball Adderley and others

Lot: 534 - 10 jazz fusion albums, Bob James, Weather Report, Donald Byrd and others

10 jazz fusion albums, Bob James, Weather Report, Donald Byrd and others

Lot: 535 - 16 albums, compilations, disco, funk albums and singles

16 albums, compilations, disco, funk albums and singles

Lot: 536 - Autographed, The Drifters - Something Old, Something New

Autographed, The Drifters - Something Old, Something New

Lot: 537 - 10 Grover Washington Jr. albums

10 Grover Washington Jr. albums

Lot: 538 - 10 classical and Gospel albums/box sets, Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Mozart and others

10 classical and Gospel albums/box sets, Beethoven, J.S. Bach, Mozart and others

Lot: 539 - 5 afrobreat/afrojazz albums, Masekela, King Sunny Ade, Saka Acquaye

5 afrobreat/afrojazz albums, Masekela, King Sunny Ade, Saka Acquaye

Lot: 540 - 11 R&B/soul albums, The OJ’s, The Whispers, The Impressions, Spinners, The Chamber Brothers, Johnnie Taylor

11 R&B/soul albums, The OJ's, The Whispers, The Impressions, Spinners, The Chamber Brothers, Johnnie Taylor

Lot: 541 - 12 funk/soul albums, The Isley Brothers, Quincy Jones, Larry Graham and others

12 funk/soul albums, The Isley Brothers, Quincy Jones, Larry Graham and others

Lot: 542 - 3 hip hop/funk/soul albums, Public Enemy with shrink wrap and hype sticker, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, Tyrone Brunson

3 hip hop/funk/soul albums, Public Enemy with shrink wrap and hype sticker, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, Tyrone Brunson

Lot: 543 - 16 albums, pop, soul and R&B, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Nat King Cole and others

16 albums, pop, soul and R&B, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Nat King Cole and others

Lot: 544 - 12 jazz/funk/fusion albums, Hubert Laws, Lonnie Smith, Mongo Santamaria and others

12 jazz/funk/fusion albums, Hubert Laws, Lonnie Smith, Mongo Santamaria and others

Lot: 545 - 18 albums, funk, soul, R&B, jazz

18 albums, funk, soul, R&B, jazz

Lot: 546 - Opportunity Pallet — approx. 800 Musical Heritage Society Classical LPs

Opportunity Pallet — approx. 800 Musical Heritage Society Classical LPs An opportunity pallet of roughly 800 classical LPs from the Musical Heritage Society, the mail-order subscription label that spent decades recording exactly what the major companies would not touch: complete editions, forgotten composers, and licensed European masters that never otherwise reached America. Titles identified in the stack include Paganini's First Violin Concerto with Viktor Tretyakov and a young Neeme Järvi; Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence; Leo Brouwer playing The Classics of Cuba on guitar; flutist Carol Wincenc's debut recording accompanied by András Schiff; Jörg Demus's complete Schumann piano works; Jean Doyen surveying the French piano school from d'Indy to Roussel; William Bergsma's quartets; and the Philadelphia String Quartet. For a dealer or a serious digger this is the appeal of MHS in one pallet — a label whose catalogue was built on repertoire nobody else recorded, most of it never reissued digitally, sold by subscription and therefore scattered rather than collected. Sold as a single lot.

Lot: 547 - Nirvana - In Utero, 1993 US limited edition, clear vinyl, DGC-24607

Nirvana - In Utero, 1993 US limited edition, clear vinyl, DGC-24607 Nirvana's third and final studio album on a 1993 US limited edition pressing, DGC-24607, the disc translucent rather than standard black, with the faint greenish cast these copies show in the light. Recorded by Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studio in Minnesota in six days, deliberately raw after the polish of Nevermind, and issued by Geffen under a standing arrangement with Sub Pop, whose logo still appears on the labels. It carries the original twelve-track sequence: "Serve the Servants," "Heart-Shaped Box," "Rape Me," "Pennyroyal Tea," "All Apologies" and the rest. Runouts carry DGC-24607-A-R2 and -B-R2 with the TML-M stamp of The Mastering Lab, where Bob Ludwig's Gateway master was cut to lacquer. Both original inserts are present, the black-and-white photo collage and the printed lyric inner sleeve. The sleeve, with Robert Fisher and Kurt Cobain's winged anatomical figure on the front and the fetal collage on the back, is opened rather than sealed. Released less than seven months before Cobain's death, and the last word from the band.

Lot: 548 - 19 LPs, signed Alan Sparhawk, Damien Jurado, MJ Lenderman, Hiroshi Yoshimura

19 LPs, signed Alan Sparhawk, Damien Jurado, MJ Lenderman, Hiroshi Yoshimura Nineteen unsealed albums, weighted toward independent labels and reissues of records that took decades to find their audience. Alan Sparhawk's White Roses, My God is signed on the front cover in silver marker, a Sub Pop Loser edition from the Low founder's first album after Mimi Parker's death. Manuel Gottsching's Inventions for Electric Guitar, made in 1974 with tape delay and no synthesizers, is a foundation stone for everything from techno to ambient guitar. Hiroshi Yoshimura's Green is a Japanese pressing with obi of the Japanese ambient record that YouTube turned into a cult item three decades on. Also here: Damien Jurado, MJ Lenderman's Boat Songs, Jack Rose's American primitive guitar, El Michels Affair's Return to the 37th Chamber, Larry Coryell's Vanguard debut, Rare Bird, both Silos albums, a Spanish flamenco-jazz compilation, and Pete Seeger's Children's Concert at Town Hall.

Lot: 549 - 34 sealed contemporary classical LPs, CRI, Orion, Serenus, Rochberg, Hovhaness

34 sealed contemporary classical LPs, CRI, Orion, Serenus, Rochberg, Hovhaness Thirty-four sealed albums, and the deepest discovery lot here: almost entirely American contemporary classical music on the small independent and nonprofit labels that documented it when nobody else would. CRI, Orion, Serenus, Desto, New World and Nonesuch pressed these in small editions, and most were never reissued. George Rochberg is here with his First String Quartet, the composer who publicly abandoned serialism and returned to tonality mid-career; Alan Hovhaness with the Triptych, from a catalogue of over four hundred works steeped in Armenian and Asian music; Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen at their most rigorous; Joan Tower, later the first woman to win the Grawemeyer Award; and Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet, written in 1931 and decades ahead of it. Also Varese and Cowell percussion music, Satie's Socrate, Meyer Kupferman, Iain Hamilton, and Clara Schumann on Orion. If you like the string writing on Radiohead's Kid A, Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score, or the stacked drones of Sunn O))) and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, this is the laboratory those sounds came out of.

Lot: 550 - 16 classical LPs, 15 sealed, Messiaen, Maxwell Davies, Rochberg, Stravinsky

16 classical LPs, 15 sealed, Messiaen, Maxwell Davies, Rochberg, Stravinsky Sixteen albums, fifteen of them still sealed, drawn from the adventurous end of the major labels in the 1960s and 1970s. Olivier Messiaen appears twice, including Seiji Ozawa's Turangalila-Symphonie paired with the first recording of Toru Takemitsu's November Steps, which put biwa and shakuhachi in front of a Western orchestra. Pierre Boulez conducts Messiaen's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum. Peter Maxwell Davies's Vesalii Icones is his most confrontational theatre piece; George Rochberg's Third Quartet, played by the Concord Quartet, is the work that reopened the argument about tonality. Andrew Rudin's Tragoedia is early synthesizer composition on Nonesuch, and a whole record is given to quarter-tone music including a piece by Teo Macero, better known as Miles Davis's producer. Also Brazilian quartets, two modern Japanese composers on Angel, Stravinsky conducting his own Symphony in E-flat, and Lukas Foss. If you like Aphex Twin's ambient records, Oneohtrix Point Never, or Mica Levi's film scores, the Rudin and the Messiaen are where that grammar begins.

Lot: 551 - 17 classical LPs, Ives Symphony No. 2, Copland, Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky

17 classical LPs, Ives Symphony No. 2, Copland, Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky Seventeen albums, sealed and unsealed, built around American music and the composers who conducted their own. Leonard Bernstein appears three times, with Charles Ives's Second Symphony, Copland's Third Symphony and Copland's school opera The Second Hurricane, which Bernstein both conducts and narrates. Ives is the insurance executive who wrote at night, quoted hymns and marching bands inside symphonic form, and waited until 1951 for the Second Symphony's premiere, nearly fifty years after finishing it. Stravinsky conducts his own Violin Concerto with Isaac Stern and his choral Threni. Robert Craft contributes the Gesualdo madrigals, by a sixteenth-century prince who wrote chromatic music nobody matched for three hundred years, and a Berg, Schoenberg and Webern program. Carlos Chavez conducts his own Sinfonia India on Everest, and Sir Adrian Boult brings two late Vaughan Williams symphonies. Beecham's Liszt Faust Symphony comes as a box with its booklet intact. If you like Sufjan Stevens's orchestral arrangements or the collaged Americana of Bon Iver, Ives got there first.

Lot: 552 - 14 sealed classical LPs, Chavez Six Symphonies box, Horowitz, Rubinstein, Mahler

14 sealed classical LPs, Chavez Six Symphonies box, Horowitz, Rubinstein, Mahler Fourteen sealed albums, several of them multi-record sets, with a strong Latin American thread. The centrepiece is Carlos Chavez conducting his own six symphonies with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, a Columbia Collectors Series box: Chavez founded that orchestra, ran it for two decades, and built a national musical language out of Mexican indigenous material much as Bartok did in Hungary. Erich Leinsdorf's Mahler Sixth with the Boston Symphony is a two-record box, coupled with Berg's Le Vin. Vladimir Horowitz plays Schumann and Scriabin from his mid-1970s concerts; Arthur Rubinstein plays the Brahms First Concerto with Zubin Mehta. Teo Macero's Time Plus Seven on Finnadar shows Miles Davis's producer as a composer in his own right. Also Villa-Lobos's Harp Concerto, Copland and Menotti piano concertos with Earl Wild, Colin Davis conducting Stravinsky, and Martinon's Debussy. If you like Rodrigo y Gabriela or the orchestral side of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Chavez and Villa-Lobos records are the source water.

Lot: 553 - 15 jazz, guitar and classical LPs, Segovia, Bream, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers

15 jazz, guitar and classical LPs, Segovia, Bream, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers Fifteen albums, sealed and unsealed, splitting three ways: West Coast jazz, classical guitar, and American chamber music. On the jazz side, Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers and Pete Rugolo's Out On A Limb are arranger-led big band dates from the Stan Kenton school, Gerry Mulligan's '63 Concert Jazz Band is still sealed, and Milestone Jazzstars In Concert is the 1978 two-record set that put Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner and Ron Carter on one stage. The guitar run is unusually strong: two Andres Segovia albums from the man who argued the classical guitar into the concert hall, two Julian Bream records, Narciso Yepes playing Sor for Deutsche Grammophon, and Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with Renata Tarrago. Rounding it out are two scarce CRI discs of Wallingford Riegger and Chou Wen-chung, Peter Lieberson's Piano Concerto with Peter Serkin, and Frederick Fennell's Eastman Wind Ensemble. If you like Rodrigo y Gabriela or Jose Gonzalez, Segovia and Bream are the tradition behind that playing.

Lot: 554 - 49 classical LPs, Bartok plays Bartok, Hovhaness, Stravinsky, Bruno Walter

49 classical LPs, Bartok plays Bartok, Hovhaness, Stravinsky, Bruno Walter Forty-nine unsealed classical albums, mostly 1950s and 1960s American pressings, and a genuine browsing lot. The spine is a run of MGM and EMS records documenting mid-century American modernism when almost nobody else was: Alan Hovhaness, Carlos Surinach, Darius Milhaud played by the New York Woodwind Quintet, Constant Lambert and Lord Berners, and Marga Richter's collection of piano music for children written by modern composers. Bartok plays Bartok on Remington is the composer at his own piano. Columbia's Black Composers Series contributes the Cuban-French violinist Jose White's concerto alongside a David Baker cello sonata, from a series created in the 1970s to correct the repertoire. Elsewhere: Stravinsky conducting Firebird and Petrushka, Monteux's Rite of Spring, Bruno Walter's Beethoven, the Juilliard Quartet in Bartok, Gilels and Rostropovich in the Archduke Trio, Howard Hanson at Eastman, and a stray Stan Kenton. If you like Bjork's orchestral arrangements or Danny Elfman's scores, Bartok and Stravinsky are the direct ancestors.

Lot: 555 - 44 classical LPs and 2 box sets, Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos, Byron Janis, Beecham

44 classical LPs and 2 box sets, Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos, Byron Janis, Beecham Forty-four albums plus two box sets, sealed and unsealed, and the broadest single classical lot in the sale. Dmitri Shostakovich runs through it: the Ninth Symphony under Alexander Gauk, two string quartets, and the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, from a composer who wrote with the Soviet state reading over his shoulder and encoded his own initials into the music. Heitor Villa-Lobos appears four times, including Bidu Sayao singing Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 under the composer, the Brazilian who claimed the Amazon taught him more than any conservatory. Byron Janis's Prokofiev Third on Mercury was recorded in Moscow in 1962, the first American-engineered sessions made in the Soviet Union. The boxes are Ferenc Fricsay's Magic Flute with Fischer-Dieskau and a four-record impressionism survey. Also Beecham, Knappertsbusch's Bruckner, Van Cliburn's Emperor, Brendel's Liszt, and a Vivaldi-in-jazz curiosity with Johnny Griffin. If you like Radiohead's darker orchestral moments or Philip Glass, Shostakovich is the temperament behind them.

Lot: 556 - Large lot, 60+ classical music magazines with cover CDs, BBC Music and Classic CD

Large lot, 60+ classical music magazines with cover CDs, BBC Music and Classic CD A bulk lot of roughly sixty to eighty classical music magazines with their cover-mounted CDs, plus a further stack of loose discs in jewel cases, running to fifty or more CDs in total. The magazines are mostly BBC Music Magazine and Classic CD from the mid-1990s onward, with a few BBC History issues; many are still shrink-wrapped with the disc sealed to the cover. Covers include Rostropovich, Nigel Kennedy, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri Te Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, James Galway and Daniel Barenboim, and the discs are full-length performances rather than samplers: John Eliot Gardiner's Mozart operas, Osmo Vanska's Beethoven from the Proms, the Endellion Quartet in Schubert, Catherine Bott in Renaissance song, Jiri Belohlavek conducting Martinu. Bought new these were the standard way British listeners built a library. As a lot it is an unusually cheap and well-annotated route into the repertoire. If you like film scores and want to know where the language came from, start anywhere in the pile.

Lot: 557 - Large sealed CD lot, Ellington and Glenn Miller gold box sets, Brubeck, Mozart

Large sealed CD lot, Ellington and Glenn Miller gold box sets, Brubeck, Mozart A large lot of sealed CDs and box sets, jazz and classical, well over a hundred discs in total. Three of the boxes are ten-disc sets: Past Perfect's 24 Carat Gold editions of Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, each with a forty-page booklet, and a Dave Brubeck collection spanning studio and live dates. Ellington wrote close to two thousand pieces and treated his orchestra as his instrument; Glenn Miller had the biggest band in America before disappearing over the Channel in 1944; Brubeck's quartet made the odd-meter jazz record that sold a million. On the classical side: Philips's Complete Mozart Edition volume of the masses and Requiem, Charles Mackerras's ten-disc Mozart symphony cycle for Telarc, Kurt Masur's Mendelssohn, and Rostropovich's complete Prokofiev symphonies on Erato, plus Perlman and Barenboim, Hilary Hahn and Julia Fischer. Mostly still shrink-wrapped. If you like the sampled loops on hip-hop records from Gang Starr to Kendrick Lamar, big-band jazz boxes like these are the raw material.

Lot: 558 - Large classical CD lot, 16 box sets, Nimbus Schubert, Muti Cherubini, Shostakovich

Large classical CD lot, 16 box sets, Nimbus Schubert, Muti Cherubini, Shostakovich Roughly seventy to eighty classical CD titles, about sixteen of them multi-disc box sets, and a great many of the rest double, triple or larger fat cases, adding up to well over two hundred discs. Almost everything is still factory shrink-wrapped. The boxes carry real weight: Nimbus's twelve-disc Schubert survey of symphonies, chamber music, piano works and lieder; Riccardo Muti's seven-disc Cherubini masses on EMI, reviving a composer Beethoven called the greatest of his contemporaries; seven discs of Haydn masses; the Fitzwilliam Quartet's Shostakovich cycle, made with the composer's blessing; Salvatore Accardo's six-disc Paganini; Barenboim's Mozart sonatas; Edmund Rubbra's complete symphonies under Richard Hickox; and Istvan Kertesz's Dvorak. Labels run to Chandos, Hyperion, Nimbus, EMI, VoxBox, cpo and Brilliant Classics, the specialists who record what the majors will not. If you like the meditative side of Max Richter or Olafur Arnalds, the Schubert and Rubbra sets are the long form of that feeling.