EX-SEALED JAZZ LP HANK MOBLEY “Hi Voltage” BLUE NOTE/ Liberty 84273 McLEAN

$

58

Artist:  HANK MOBLEY                                    

Title:   “Hi Voltage”

Label:   BLUE NOTE ~ BST 84273.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.

Label is classic blue/white Blue Note, with the address as follows: “BLUE NOTE RECORDS * A PRODUCT OF LIBERTY RECORDS”. 

VAN GELDER is stamped in the runout groove.

Jacket has “BLUE NOTE: A Product of Liberty Records” on the logo. 

Session date:  1967

Personnel:  

Blue Mitchell – trumpet

Jackie McLean – alto sax

Hank Mobley – tenor sax

John Hicks – piano

Bob Cranshaw – bass

Billy Higgins – drums. 

Review:

“This 1967 date by tenor saxophone great Hank Mobley was a high watermark for the Blue Note label during that exceptional year.  Mobley wrote all six tunes here, and they offer the breadth and depth of his mature compositional method.  All but one of his collaborators on this project were label veterans – Jackie McLean, Blue Mitchell, Billy Higgins, and Bob Cranshaw.  The lone exception was pianist John Hicks, and the recording session benefits greatly from his contribution.  Hicks is a very lyrical player, even when he gets tough and funky.  He is right at home with the hard bop blues on the title cut, which opens the set and provides a wonderfully swinging bottom for the soloists to trade fours and burrow through.  His chromatic prowess and subtlety are very evident on the moving ballad "No More Goodbyes," where his gently shaded harmonies and ostinatos offer Mobley a beautiful backdrop to solo from.  Mobley's sense of rhythmic invention is showcased on the breezy yet finger-popping "Bossa De Luxe," and the three horns go deep into the groove -- using Higgins and Hicks as counterweights in the funky, greasy "Flirty Gerty" that closes the set.  In all, this date is solid, ranking with the very best of Mobley's offerings for Blue Note.”

(courtesy  Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)

Condition: 

NOTE:  This album came to us STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap as part of the estate of a shop owner who maintained a personal collection of fine vintage LPs, many of them sealed. 

In order to provide the most accurate information to guide your bidding, we made the decision to carefully open it to reveal the label and pressing details. 

You have our assurance that this scarce jazz LP has never been on a turntable since it left the factory. 

The vinyl is flawless!

Jacket is EXCELLENT in sparkling clean original factory shrink wrap.  Flawless front and back panels, except top right of front panel has a small round area of the shink wrap removed where it seems a price sticker may have previously been affixed (approximately 2 inches diameter), almost unnoticeable .   There is also a very tiny white nick in the album slick in the same location (see photo). 

Otherwise immaculate, with crisp corners, flawless seams and spine.

A beautiful item.

Includes the original LIBERTY factory inner sleeve, in top condition.

Track Listing:

Side One:

·         High Voltage

·         Two and One

·         No More Goodbys

Side Two:

·         Advance Notice

·         Bossa De Luxe

·         Flirty Gerty

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