Year: 1957
Record label: Blue Note BLP 1568
Worth Today: $11,612*

Hank Mobley’s Third Season wasn’t a widely produced album, with between 300 to 1,000 copies printed upon its release in 1957. That makes virtually every copy of the album relatively rare, but there’s one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest. 

Third Season had a lot of hard bop tracks from Mobley, who was regarded by Leonard Feather as the tenor saxophone’s “middleweight champion.” The “middleweight” designation came from the fact that Mobley’s tone was in between Coltrane’s aggressiveness and Getz’ mellowness. He had a subtle, laid-back, and commercially successful style.

One singular version has a different label on it to the rest of the copies, as Blue Note reportedly ran out of the ones that they were using. Instead, the label placed onto this particular copy was slightly different to the rest. This is enough to send collectors wild. It fetched $11,162.