Hi all, selling some more of my most valuable and highly collectable vinyl. I listed a couple of UK first pressing Black Sabbath records here a while back and this is another record in super clean condition.
True first pressing with first label/address (Bergenfield NJ) on label. Heavy weight what feels like 180g vinyl, as many of those 50s pressings often were. NOT recycled vinyl that a lot of Prestige recordings used. In my opinion the solid state cut reissues sound fine, but this tube cut has the presence of fresh master tapes. My personal favorite Coltrane album on Prestige, and rightfully reissued so many times. And this record is mono, cut on a true mono cutting head by Rudy Van Gelder with RVG in the dead wax.
In doing a search for Walt De Silva California Record Distributor the only information I could find was this other promotional prestige LP of the famous Tommy Flanagan album:
https://www.popsike.com/TOMMY-FLANAGANOverseas-super-rare-orig-1958-LP-1st/200452974599.html
https://www.popsike.com/RARE-JAZZ-L...42-DG-RVG-203-S-PROMO-Clean/142138885816.html
Play graded on a stereo Soundsmith cartridge that is really revealing of surface noise (elliptical stylus) with no mono switch and is of course even quieter on a true mono cartridge like my friend's Miyajima.
Sound quality- the word that kept coming to my mind is how natural it sounds. Not remotely bright or harsh, but just with tremendous presence, for instance during the bass solo on the first track the ride cymbal is nice and soft, and not brittle and splashy like I’ve heard on every solid state cut.
Will be shipped in a box intended for a Mosaic box set with lots of padding on either end.
Jacket- VG there is a seam split along the top seam. Some general age wear along the back.
Vinyl is visually VG+, there are just the lightest hairlines from the original paper inner sleeve. I've cleaned it and it's in a rice paper inner sleeve. There are no spindle trails are marks on the label.
Play grade:
Side 1- incredibly quiet in the lead in groove and first few seconds of music which opens as a softer tracker.
Side 2- very low level surface noise in the lead in groove and first second seconds of the opening piano bit. Some low level surface noise in some of the quietest moments like the start of Theme For Ernie.
NO distortion. Like I said above it looks like this record was seldom if never played before I played it, as such there is no hashy, groove distortion type breakup on loud transients.
$590 including insured shipping in the US.
Pictures:
True first pressing with first label/address (Bergenfield NJ) on label. Heavy weight what feels like 180g vinyl, as many of those 50s pressings often were. NOT recycled vinyl that a lot of Prestige recordings used. In my opinion the solid state cut reissues sound fine, but this tube cut has the presence of fresh master tapes. My personal favorite Coltrane album on Prestige, and rightfully reissued so many times. And this record is mono, cut on a true mono cutting head by Rudy Van Gelder with RVG in the dead wax.
In doing a search for Walt De Silva California Record Distributor the only information I could find was this other promotional prestige LP of the famous Tommy Flanagan album:
https://www.popsike.com/TOMMY-FLANAGANOverseas-super-rare-orig-1958-LP-1st/200452974599.html
https://www.popsike.com/RARE-JAZZ-L...42-DG-RVG-203-S-PROMO-Clean/142138885816.html
Play graded on a stereo Soundsmith cartridge that is really revealing of surface noise (elliptical stylus) with no mono switch and is of course even quieter on a true mono cartridge like my friend's Miyajima.
Sound quality- the word that kept coming to my mind is how natural it sounds. Not remotely bright or harsh, but just with tremendous presence, for instance during the bass solo on the first track the ride cymbal is nice and soft, and not brittle and splashy like I’ve heard on every solid state cut.
Will be shipped in a box intended for a Mosaic box set with lots of padding on either end.
Jacket- VG there is a seam split along the top seam. Some general age wear along the back.
Vinyl is visually VG+, there are just the lightest hairlines from the original paper inner sleeve. I've cleaned it and it's in a rice paper inner sleeve. There are no spindle trails are marks on the label.
Play grade:
Side 1- incredibly quiet in the lead in groove and first few seconds of music which opens as a softer tracker.
Side 2- very low level surface noise in the lead in groove and first second seconds of the opening piano bit. Some low level surface noise in some of the quietest moments like the start of Theme For Ernie.
NO distortion. Like I said above it looks like this record was seldom if never played before I played it, as such there is no hashy, groove distortion type breakup on loud transients.
$590 including insured shipping in the US.
Pictures:
