04/23/2026
We here at Last Vestige Music Shop, are honored to have acquired a collection for the ages. Lots of first/early pressing jazz records from greats such as Mingus, Miles, Coltrane, Monk, and many others on Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse, and many other collectible labels. Our Wall of Fame is adorned with some choice pieces, but please also check out our Discogs page for the higher ticket items. While most of the vinyl are in really nice shape, some of the jackets required a little tlc, and all titles are priced accordingly. This collection was sold to us by local legend Julie Lomoe.
I had the pleasure of meeting Julie Lomoe at her home in Wynatskill earlier this week. She contacted me through the store about possibly buying her record collection. As I walked up the stairs to her house, I was greeted by a friendly, gorgeous, light-calico cat named Cleo (Cleopatra). I walked in to her sun room and there on the couch was a stack of Coltrane records, what looked like a first pressing of Blue Train on top. I was surrounded by boxes and stacks of albums, mostly jazz. Nothing newer than 1968, and almost all first/early pressings. It seemed as each record I touched, she had a story of that artist and when, where and how she met them. At 84, her memory is as sharp as ever, and every anecdote was more and more jaw dropping; Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, the list goes on. Some of these legends even stayed with her and her mother as the musicians passed through town while they were living in Chicago. She herself was a jazz pianist, taught by non other than John Lewis, composer and founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet. After every tale, Julie would quip “I should write a memoir”.
Yes.
Please.
And I encourage anyone interested in not only jazz but music across the board, to look her up on Facebook and peer in to this incredible life. A musician, an artist, and an author of suspense, a music lover, an archivist of a life lived to the fullest and then some. She sold me her collection to fund a cruise through Norway. A venture that would terrify me yet fills her with wonder and excitement at the opportunity.
You can learn more about Julie’s various comings and goings on her page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1JrazkrMKH/?mibextid=wwXIfr
And her website
https://julielomoe.wordpress.com/...
