I recorded a jazz concert earlier this week.
A Swedish tenor saxophone player in the
band, a guy in his early 30's,
told me that he had just come back
from an auction in Berlin, where he had
bought a sealed vinyl pressing of
"DUKE ELLINGTON LIVE AT NEWPORT"
(the legendary concert recorded in 1956
where Paul Gonsalves played an astounding
27 chorus solo in "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue")

He bought the album in auction and paid Euro286
that's UKP200. It was a sealed review copy.

He told me also that he has the double CD (Euro23)
with lots of previously unreleased material, which he
bought as a tool to enable him to learn and evaluate the
construction of the Gonsalves solo, being able to stop,
start and loop the CD player as and when required.

He grinned and added, " But I bought the vinyl for
the sheer musical enjoyment"

Iain