ROLLING STONE article on music collectibles featuring Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold (click to enlarge)Jeff Gold (click to enlarge.)  photo by Eilon Paz, dustandgrooves.com

Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold has been buying and selling collectible records and music memorabilia for 48 years. Profiled by Rolling Stone as one of the five “top collectors of high-end music memorabilia,” he travels the world to search out the finest music collectibles . An internationally recognized expert in the field, he is a frequent consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Experience Music Project/MPOP and various record labels and cultural institutions.

Gold’s 2020 book, Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940’s and 1950’s, was issued by Harper Collins.  It includes interviews with Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins, and was featured in the year-end wrap-ups of the best music books by The Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, All Music Guide, and The Los Angeles Times,  which called it “vivid and beautiful.”  Gold’s 2016 book, Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges/As Told by Iggy Pop was one of Rough Trade’s ‘Books of the Year’ and earned rave reviews in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Esquire and many other publications.  His 2012 book 101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl, From The Beatles to the Sex Pistols was one of eight books selected in 2012 by Rolling Stone as “The year’s best reading material.”

Gold is a former Executive Vice President/General Manager of Warner Bros. Records where he worked with Prince, REM, Madonna and The Red Hot Chili Peppers and oversaw the Jimi Hendrix catalog. As VP/Marketing and Creative Services at A&M Records, Gold worked with The Police, Cat Stevens, Soundgarden, and Janet Jackson.  He was editor of the book “A&M Records: The First 25 Years.”   A four time Grammy nominated art director, he won a Grammy for Suzanne Vega’s album “Days of Open Hand.”

A music historian and researcher, Gold has discovered a number of previously unknown tapes later released by major labels, including “Bob Dylan at Brandeis University 1963” and unreleased performances by the Velvet Underground and The Stooges. He was a producer of the album “Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix” (with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Seal, and The Cure) and has worked on archival projects for Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and Gram Parsons.  His discovery of 149 previously unknown Bob Dylan acetate records received extensive media attention including articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

In 2016, Gold and colleague Laura Woolley appraised The Bob Dylan Archive, now housed at the University of Tulsa.  Gold has consulted for former Rolling Stones member Bill Wyman, and The Estate of Leonard Cohen, and helped curate museum exhibitions including the Experience Music Project’s “Beatlemania !” and the traveling exhibit “Bob Dylan’s American Journey”.  He appeared as an expert authenticator/appraiser on PBS’s History Detectives and VH1’s television show Rock Collectors, and is profiled in the books “Vinyl Junkies” by Brett Milano and “Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction To Its Own Past” by Simon Reynolds.

Recordmecca has sold music artifacts to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Experience Music Project,  the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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