HANK MOBLEY Quintet LP 1957 Pressing Blue Note 1550 NY 23 Ear Beaded Edge

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Very Collectible! HANK MOBLEY Quintet LP Blue Note 1958 Pressing Beaded Edge  BN-LP 1550 US 1957
Very rare to find the Microgroove Pressing!



Dust jacket is in rough shape.
You are buying the album with the damaged dust jacket.
  Sleeve has corner damage, tears, showing general
heavy damage, or will be partially missing.
Defects of dust jacket are pointed out in photos as noted.




Vinyl Album is in very good condition considering it is about 64 years old. 



RVG Cursive P BN-LP-1550 A

RVG Cursive P BN-LP 1550 Side B



Side A and B Labels are in great condition
Track List Side A
A1 Funk In Deep In Freeze A2 Wham And They're Off A3 Fin De L'affaire










Appropriate Album Features: 
Blue Note Records, 47 West 63rd St., New York 23
1550: Hank Mobley, With Farmer, Silver, Watkins,  Blakey (1957) Mono Version Only

Beaded Edge (hard to photo edge but
looks like beaded edge not flat edge)

Deep groove

Has appropriate Laminated Cover (no Inc.) Recorded on March 8, 1957 ~ Album released in 1958

 
RVG Initials The Dead Wax has Hand Etched RVG Initials  "RVG" of Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer of  most of the Blue Note sessions in the 1950's-60's. Having RVG hand etched or stamped in the dead wax means that the sessions were mastered by Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey and are very high quality.
 
Ear (Cursive P) Also has the Highly collectible "Ear (cursive P) in the dead wax on this New York 23 USA Label. Records with the P mean higher quality (heavier" pressing made by Plastylite Pressing Company that Blue Note used.





Track List  B1 Startin' From Scratch B2 Stella-Wise B3 Base On Balls


Bass – Doug Watkins
Design Cover – Harold Feinstein
Drums – Art Blakey 
Piano – Horace Silver 
Producer – Alfred Lion 
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder 
Tenor Saxophone – Hank Mobley 
Trumpet – Art Farmer
Very rare to find the Microgroove Pressing. 
Corner and tear and heavy damage to
dust jacket from use
and vintage age of 64 years old. 

Defects are pointed out in photos & as described.
Some faint scratches on album. 


 Unbelievable high fidelity sound for the time!
Tested and sounds great on an on a Ortofon 2M Red and plays very well.
RIIA Compliant 

Thank you for looking!