BUD POWELL SONNY STITT ESQUIRE UK 20-03 10” LP MINT

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BUD POWELL, SONNY STITT QUARTET ESQUIRE PRESTIGE NEW JAZZ 20-03 10” LP WITH CURLEY RUSSELL AND MAX ROACH. FIRST UK ISSUE OF NEW JAZZ NJLP 103. DEEP GROOVE, FLAT EDGE. SUPER THICK VINYL, SOLID MINT-, NEARLY PERFECT BUT HAS A VERY FAINT HAIRLINE ON SIDE 1 WHICH IS INAUDIBLE AND HARDLY VISIBLE. PERFECT FIDELITY AND MIRROR LIKE SHEEN AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FAINT HAIRLINE NOTED ABOVE THIS LP IS AS NEW IN APPEARANCE AND SOUND AS THE DAY IT WAS PRESSED OVER 50 YEARS AGO. COVER SOLID MINT! NOTE: WHAT MAY LOOK LIKE RED TAPE ON THE COVER (IT CAN'T BE SEEN IN THE DIGITAL PHOTO) IS ACTUALLY THE CLOTH SEAM BINDING THEY USED ON THESE VERY EARLY UK 10” LP’S—(THE THIRD MODERN JAZZ LP ISSUED BY ESQUIRE - 1952). VASTLY SUPERIOR FIDELITY TO THE VERY RARE NEW JAZZ 10” FIRST ISSUE. VERY RARE—A GEM!! ONE OF THE EARLY BEBOP MASTERPIECES BY A YOUNG BUD POWELL! THIS LP AND COVER (LIKE SO MANY OF THE ESQUIRE AND VOGUE LP'S I'VE LISTED) ARE AS GOOD AS IT GETS - AND THEN SOME! ITS A JOY TO SEE THE RARE VINTAGE VINYL OF MODERN JAZZ IN SUCH PRISTINE CONDITION, WITH THE MOST OUTSTANDING HIGH FIDELITY ONE COULD EVER HOPE TO HEAR - MAKES ONE FEEL LIKE THESE GREAT MUSICIANS ARE ALIVE AND PLAYING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE EUROPEAN MODERN JAZZ FIRST ISSUES.

*NOTE: I WILL BE LISTING A LARGE COLLECTION OF THESE FIRST ISSUE EUROPEAN MODERN JAZZ 10”, 12”, EP’S, AND 78 SETS. IN ALL CASES THEY WERE ISSUED IN EUROPE DURING THE SAME PERIOD AS THE AMERICAN PRESSING IN THE USA. PRESTIGE OWNER BOB WEINSTOCK HAD AN ARRANGEMENT WITH ESQUIRE IN THE UK, BARCLAY IN FRANCE, AND METRONOME IN SWEDEN, TO SELL & TRADE MASTERS OF EUROPEAN JAZZ RECORDINGS FOR RELEASE ON PRESTIGE IN THE USA, AND FOR AMERICAN PRESTIGE RECORDINGS TO BE RELEASED ON THE ESQUIRE, BARCLAY, AND METRONOME LABELS IN EUROPE FROM THE EARLY 1950’S THRU THE MIDDLE 60’S. ALFRED LION OF BLUE NOTE, AND MANY OTHER US JAZZ LABELS ALSO MADE THE SAME ARRANGEMENT, HOWEVER ALFRED LION STOPPED IT BEFORE THE 12” BLUE NOTE’S STARTED. THE FIDELITY AND PRESSING QUALITY OF THESE EU DEEP GROOVE FIRST ISSUES IS AMAZING, IN SOME CASES THEY SOUND MUCH BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN ISSUES (ESP. IN THE CASE OF PRESTIGE & DEBUT 10” ISSUES). THE ALTERNATE COVER ART IS ALSO OF SPECIAL HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE COLLECTOR OF MODERN JAZZ AS IT IS CREATIVE, DRAMATIC, AND OFTEN USES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED PICTURES AND INNOVATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN. ALSO, THIS COLLECTION OF EU DEEP GROOVES ARE IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION (SAD TO SAY THE EUROPEANS FOR THE MOST PART SEEM TO HAVE TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THEIR LP’S THAN FELLOW AMERICAN COLLECTORS OF THE PERIOD). THESE ORIGINAL LP’S WERE NOT PRESSED IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS DURING THE 1950’S AND EARLY 60’S (SAME AS CAN BE SAID OF THE MAJOR INDEPENDENT JAZZ LABELS IN THE USA) SO THEY ARE IN FACT OFTEN MUCH HARDER TO FIND THAN THE SAME USA PRESSED FIRST ISSUE. THESE EU DEEP GROOVES ARE IN EVERY CASE – AUDIOPHILE PRESSINGS, MADE OF VERY THICK PURE VIRGIN VINYL, WITH A VERY STRONG DEEP GROOVE IMPRESSION. THESE EUROPEAN PRESTIGE FIRST ISSUES ARE MUCH SUPERIOR TO THE USA ISSUES - (EVEN THE 12” NYC DEEP GROOVES, AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING AS THE W. 50TH NYC PRESTIGE 12” FIRST ISSUES ARE BEAUTIFUL IN FIDELITY, BUT THESE I WILL WITHOUT HESITATION STATE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER – ABSOLUTELY STUNNING FIDELITY). I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WRITE THIS NOTE THANKS TO MANY YEARS OF COMMUNICATION WITH DISTRIBUTORS, AND COLLECTORS FROM EUROPE DURING THE PERIOD, AS WELL AS CONTEMPORARY MAJOR COLLECTORS AND JAZZ MUSIC HISTORIANS. I HOPE THIS INFORMATION WAS OF ASSISTANCE IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THESE LP’S.

OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, DOWNBEAT 2003 WILL BE LISTING A MAJOR COLLECTION OF VERY RARE VINTAGE JAZZ LPS, 78S, EPS, ETC. FROM A MAJOR COLLECTION ACQUIRED OVER 30+ YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL COLLECTING. SOME OF THE RAREST LPS OF BOP AND MODERN JAZZ WILL BE OFFERED, FROM ALL MAJOR LABELS INCULUDING BLUE NOTE, PRESTIGE, SAVOY, DIAL, ROOST, PACIFIC JAZZ, DEBUT, VOGUE, TO NAME A FEW. THE PIECES IN MOST CASES ARE IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION AND PRESERVATION. SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY! PLEASE SEE MY ‘ME’ FOR ALL STRICT GRADING, SHIPPING AND PAYMENT TERMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.