1957 Mint Uk Esquire PHIL WOODS SHIHAB Four Altos Hard bop New Old Stock RVG
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Last one of these! 1957 Unplayed Old Stock Phil Woods Sahib Shihab Esquire 32-074 UK 1st Press of a Rudi Van Gelder recording and mastering. This week I am offering the last of a treasure trove: I found a small pile of unused Esquires, and sorted through them with a bright light to identify the best condition ones, lacking storage damage, and any spindle marks of being played by customers in the shop. No marks to playing surfaces or labels. These are the ones that are like they came out of the factory 60 years ago. Some of these are changing hands for healthy three figures, and if you have a sleeve with a worn one in, you have hit the jackpot. we do combine shipping to save money for you.
Pristine vinyl 1957 Unplayed new Old Stock 1957 Phil Woods & Sahib Shihab on Four Altos. Esquire 32-074 UK 1st Press RVG in the dead wax. Full band is Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein - alto saxophones Mal Waldron - piano Tommy Potter - bass Louis Hayes - drums. A very fine lp, mine gets plenty of plays. A pre 1959 US mother sent over by Prestige, and pressed on better vinyl over here, at the Burlington Road in New Malden, Surrey Decca plant on their highly regarded recipe virgin vinyl (Prestige mainly or frequently used recycled vinyl). I have this myself, a killer album, with killer trading of licks between that crazily strong front line, and good old fantastic soloing as well. Quill died young, Hal Stein's album of two years before this is ridiculously expensive, vg copies even, sell for hundreds.
One review noted:
"although this is a Van Gelder-engineered session, the horns aren't "reverb-enhanced" or the piano's sound "bottled up." Definitely, the best all-alto blowing session I've yet come across (none of the irritating distortion of Rudy's unbearable 3-tenor "A Blowin' Session," on which Griffin, Coltrane and Mobley all sound like buzz saws)."
When we post this to you, we pack in hard card custom made new boxes. For more items of similar interest see our me page. My ethos is to offer you best sounding pressings of vintage records. Here is another beauty of that type. We offer massive postage subsidies to overseas buyers on multiple purchases. i.e no extra charge after 1st postage. We pack carefully in custom made hard card boxes. If the appearance or playgrade suggests it requires it, our records are cleaned on a wash and vac machine, using art du son fluid in distilled water.
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