MILES DAVIS +19 MILES AHEAD RARE CDN LBL 1 ED COVER NM-

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Release

Title: Miles Ahead
Artist: Miles Davis + 19
           Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans
Label: Columbia Records 
Release Number: CL 1041
Release Year: 1957
Prior Release Number: NONE
Prior Release Year: NONE
Number of Records: 1
Pressing: Canada
Size: 12 inch
Speed: 33 1/3 RPM

Album Cover: Standard
Front: VG+, 4" TOP SEAM SPLIT
Back VG+, woc
Vinyl: VG+ to NM-, hairline scratches, scuff marks
Graded (Visually/Played): VG+ to NM- / VG+ to NM-
Sleeve: Plain sleeve 
Sleeve Condition: VG+
Insert(s): None
Insert(s) Condition: N/A
Mono/Stereo: MONO
Electronically Reprocessed/Digital: N/A

Description

FIRST EDITION
Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 under Columbia label as CL 1041. This was the first album following Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess andSketches of Spain. Gil Evans combined the ten pieces that make up the album in a kind of suite, each following the preceding one without interruption. Davis is the only soloist on Miles Ahead, which also features a prominent horn section.

A fifth recording date involved Davis alone (re-)recording material to cover or patch mistakes or omissions in his solos using overdubbing. The fact that this album originally was produced in mono makes these inserted over-dubbings rather obvious in the new stereo setting.

Album Cover

Miles reportedly was unhappy about the album's original cover, which featured a photograph of a young white woman and child aboard a sailboat. He made his displeasure known to Columbia executive George Avakian. For later releases of the record, however, the original cover-photo has been substituted by a photograph of Miles Davis.

Vinyl: VG+, hairline scratches, scuff marks
Label: NM
Matrix Numbers: XLP41762-1G 
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Vinyl: NM-
Label: NM
Matrix Numbers: XLP41763-1D
Stampers: 

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Near Mint (NM) Vinyl is near perfect. Very likely unplayed. At most, a light scuff appears on the record, but it should play without any noise or skips. The record sleeve should also be near perfect with only minor signs of wear. There should be no "ring wear" on the cover. (Ring wear is when the outline of the record inside shows through the sleeve.) 

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