Acetate Dizzy Gillespie Caravan Night in Tunisia +1 12" DIZZY'S PERSONAL MASTER

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Acetate - Dizzy Gillespie - Caravan, Night in Tunisia and one  marked "No Title". Covers one of Dizzys best known tunes. Night in Tunisia was covered everywhere. This looks to be from the 50's or 60's from the label. Most of the items we have are pre 1965. This has a big scratch and will be heard with (i'm sure) a loud pop. Scratches on both sides and disc is rough also. Dizzy's personal master.

HOW RARE IS THIS!!!!!

Assume you will hear clicks, pops, and other assorted noises. Assume you will see scratches. This acetate is decades old and it shows storage wear and use. You may hear surface noise. I haven't played it. Since considering it's current shape, playing it more does it a disservice till it hits your turntable and how you care for your records.  Grading Good or better. If you feel it's better, then I've been conservative. 

What a cool piece of history!! Dizzy Gillespies demo acetates and test pressings. I've given you some BIG photos to judge for yourself.

This acetate or test pressing comes from the estate of Dizzy Gillespie. These were his personal items and from his personal collection. Dizzy handled them! Our customer purchased a large lot of items from the estate and has consigned them to Forever Vinyl - The rare and out of print record store.

NOTE: All of the items from the estate show wear. NONE are in mint condition and most are only in good or better condition. We have not played any of them. All are visually graded.  We have confirmed they do come from and were owned by Dizzy Gillespie before his passing. We will show all labels and try to show the acetates/test pressings in their worst, not best light. That way, you can be decide if you want them or not and can only be surprised if they are better then you though.  Many of these items are decades old. As a huge fan of jazz and of Dizzy, it brings me great pleasure to bring these to the collectors/music lovers market place.Remember, these are as described and sold as is. I will gladly listen to you if feel we've made a mistake in some way but otherwise, if you bid on it, you own it.

WHAT IS AN "ACETATE"??

From the Madonnacatalog.com site with special thanks to Michael Papas.

An acetate disc is cut prior to the cutting of the master disc which is used for mass production of records. Even though referred to as an "acetate", it is essentially an aluminum disc coated with a fine film of nitro-cellulose lacquer with no acetate in it at all!  They do not come in a frame. There is NO picture sleeve, and no special artwork on the record labels. Most acetates are 10" round, but the actual music record grooves are usually 7" in diameter. A 7" single is usually cut on a 10" disc, a 12" single or LP is cut onto a 12" disc. They're almost always single-sided (the other side is totally blank and shiny, with no grooves and no label).

This is used as a reference disc allowing the producer, engineer, artist and other interested parties to see how well the recording transfers to disc. Trying to tranfser some recordings to disc is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, and so the cutting engineer must make some adjustments to the sound so that song on the tape fits within the confines of a record groove. This may include adjusting the overall level (volume), adjusting bass/treble, compressing the overall signal, etc so that the record sounds as good as possible when played on a variety of hi-fi systems. For example, if a song is excessively long, the cutting engineer will have to reduce the overall level of the disc. When such changes are necessary, the reference disc (or "acetate") allows the producer to check and approve these changes before the master disc is cut and sent off to the pressing plant where thousands of copies are pressed.

Once everyone is happy with the reference cut, the engineer will cut the MASTER LACQUER disc with the same changes and send it off to the pressing plant for mass production.

The lacquer coating on the disc is very soft and so the sound quality will deteriorate the more you play it. At first, the high frequencies will diminish and an increase of surface noise will be evident. If you thought records scratch and wear out easily, a lacquer disc is worse!

Reference cuts will usually appear as 10" discs with a 7"single cut onto them, or a 12" disc with either a 7" or a 12" cut. Reference discs will often have a second hole near the centre hole. This is to identify them as reference cuts and not master lacquers for production use.

So if you have an "acetate", you have a disc that was theoretically cut for the producer, engineer and artist to listen to.

Forever Vinyl adds: Normally, they are one of a kind and you won't see them again. Other then to have as reference or the final master, there wasn't any other reason to make more then a few. If you have one, you have something very unique to that recording.

THIS ITEM IS ON CONSIGNMENT TO FOREVER VINYL. IF YOU HAVE RARE RECORDS AND WANT SOMEONE TO SELL THEM FOR YOU RATHER THEN SELL THEM WHOLESALE TO A DEALER FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, WE'LL DO THE WORK. We present items in the best light and are truthful in their descriptions.

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We were recently featured as a music expert appraiser in Readers Digest Magazine December 2009.

Grading System: Cover/Record
Records are visually graded. 

Mint     Sealed, SS, or Mint: Is either new or still sealed.

NM    Near Mint: Has very minor difference then mint. We normally grade everything near mint, even if it's mint. It's better to undergrade then overgrade.

VG++     VG++, VG+:  Has been played but not a lot.  Maybe some light scuffs or scratches, but no major wear or defects.  Cover may have some light ring wear but not distracting. VG++,VG+ records should be good enough for almost any collector BUT THEY ARE NOT MINT.

VG    Very good:  Will have a decent amount of surface scratches and / or surface noise and / or pops & ticks, but will not be too distracting.   Cover will have wear.

G       Good:  Still plays through but will not look pretty, may be noisy but should play all the way through.

P:       Poor:  Trashed.

Guide to Abbreviations

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Be sure to bookmark us. Its amazing the type of collections we are working with. We recently received on consignment, a collection of mostly imports and hard to find rock, Kraut Rock, Hardcore, alt type music and CD's, 45's and LPs. We are also working on a major music industry executives promo collection and a former radio DJs collection. Almost the entire collections is in VG++ or better condition. All the collections seems smoke free and 99% of the collections came in plastic sleeves. We'll be listing as many items to Ebay as fast as we can and most auctions will end on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays in the late evenings EST.

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Grading and Codes:
Grading System: Cover/Record
Records are visually graded.
Mint, SS Sealed, SS, or Mint: Is either new or still sealed.
NM Near Mint: Has very minor difference then mint. We normally grade everything near mint, even if it's mint. It's better to undergrade then overgrade.
VG++, VG+: Has been played but not a lot. Maybe some light scuffs or scratches, but no major wear or defects. Cover may have some light ring wear but not distracting. Minor seam wear also. VG++,VG+ records should be good enough for almost any collector BUT THEY ARE NOT MINT.
VG Very good: Will have a decent amount of surface scratches and / or surface noise and / or pops & ticks, but will not be too distracting. Cover will have more wear.
G / Good: Still plays through but will not look pretty, may be noisy but should play all the way through.
F/P: Fair / Poor: I wouldn't play it but might be fun to have till a great copy comes along.

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Guide to Abbreviations
PBC Plain black cover
SS Still sealed
CO Cut out TOBC Tape on back cover
CS Company cover TOC Tape on cover
PS Picture cover WLP White label promo
Re Reissue WOBC Writing on back cover
RW Ring wear WOC Writing on cover
Sm Splt Seam split WOL Writing on label
SOC Sticker on cover WS Plain white cover
SOL Sticker on label
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