Jazz: Discussions

Hi all - I cross-posted this to the Audiophile neighborhood, so it may seem familiar to you already. Here we go again: long story, but hang in. We live in Spokane Washington. There was a gentleman here - my surrogate dad - who was a long time radio man: voice of the local public TV station, had his own jazz programs, etc. etc. He has an INCREDIBLE collection of vinyl records - we are talking 33's, 78's, even 45's from way back when he was in HS in the 30's. Frank died a few years back, and now we have this enormous collection of at least 2000 disks of mainly jazz and classical records to deal with. There is also a significant group of voice disks, like Edward R. Murrow and the Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast, plus some 50's-oriented disks like Henry Mancini. Like I say, he was collecting since the 30's and I KNOW there are probably some very, very valuable records in there. In most cases, the covers are perfect and the disks in very good condition - Frank didn't fool around with junk. There's also a sound system for playing these things, which I don't know if you can find anymore.
Question: where do I start to unload this collection? It weighs a ton and I don't want to ship it. Nor do I want to spend my time learning about the artists and the disks to squeeze every nickel out of them. What should I do? Where do we start? Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks!

Well there are 11 members and they are all silent! Tell me who are your favorite Jazz bands/individuals.

I have some older albums I'm selling, I have a copy of "Jackie Wilson at the Copa" recorded live and while technically not Jazz, I thought some of you might be interested! Thanks for taking a look, this is in really good shape and still wrapped in original plastic.

Drawing from a timeless collection of standard favorites from the Cole Porter, Burt Bacharach / Hal David, and Irving Berlin songbooks, master vocalist TIM BALLARD takes the vocal jazz fan on an unforgettable journey through 12 timeless, beautiful, and lush orchestrations on his album, "EASY DOES IT", produced and arranged by the incomparable Dave Zoller.

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These all belong to a jazz musician in New Orleans. Helping him sell them.

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-ARCADIA WISE MAN VINYL RECORDS

Hi there, nice to see Jazz community on eBay. Well, I love jazz but I also love House Music, so I mixed one DJ Mix '"Do You Like Jazz?", so maybe you gonna like it: Here are the respective artists: The Cool balance feat Kevin Yost, Airto, Brother Of Soul, Shur I Can vs Milton Jackson, LTJ Experience, African jazzms, The Brooklyn Soulboys, Undercover Agency, Sumo feat Clarisse Muvemba, Louie & Blze, Bill Summers
...and this is a link: http://www.deeplink.info/news/new-mp3-dj-mixes/do-you-like-jazz-.php

Enjoy and please comment if you like ;)