RARE jazz SONNY ROLLINS "Way Out West" CONTEMPORARY S-7017 '58 Orig. N-MINT GEM

$

260

DESCRIPTION:
Fantastic museum-quality copy of a jazz masterpiece by the great saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Features Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. Iconic front cover photo by jazz photographer William Claxton. Original stereo VERY FIRST pressing from 1958 in superb condition with original loose baggy. The finest copy of this LP we have ever seen!

COVER:
Near Mint with no ring wear, marks, tears, stains, writing, stickers, splits, bumps, flaking, warping, fading, discoloring or other defects of any kind. TINY and almost imperceptible amount of wear to back and bottom corners only. Looks like NEW with perfect spine and seams, glossy front and snow-white back. Please note: Yellowish glare in cover photos is in the pictures, not on the cover.

DISC:
Near Mint with no wear, dirt, scratches, scuffs, spots, fingerprints, warping or other defects of any kind. One VERY FAINT inaudible mark on side 1 only. Plays perfectly flat and centered. Looks and sounds like NEW. Mirror-like surface in dead-wax and full gloss in the grooves. Plays with rich, dynamic sound with almost NO surface noise--incredible sound!

MATRIX INFO:
Side 1: "STEREO - LKS - 33 - D1" "H" "A" (all machine-stamped)
Side 2: "STEREO - LKS - 34 - D1" "H" "A" (all machine-stamped)
"LKS" = recorded by Lester Koenig in stereo.
"D1" & "A"= Engineered by Roy DuNann, 1st mother & stamper

LABELS:
Mint with no wear, tears, writing, stickers, spindle marks, fingerprints or other defects of any kind. DEEP GROOVE labels are perfect, glossy and new-looking.

INNER SLEEVE:
Newer poly-lined protective inner sleeve provided in addition to original plain paper sleeve.

OUTER BAG:
Excellent with only minor wear and crinkles. Very rare to find the original loose baggy still included (shrink wrap was not yet in use at the time.) This bag from Music City in Minneapolis has done a great job of keeping the cover like new.

REVIEWS:
"Contemporary Records was located on Melrose Place in Hollywood.  There was no recording studio, just a shipping warehouse.  Koenig was very particular about high fidelity and recorded sound, and the genius of Roy DuNann made this shipping room turn out the best recorded sound of all the labels.   As the engineer for Contemporary, DuNann was able to produce the best recorded sound of any label at the time, even the big sound of Capitol Studios on Vine (where he once worked)  or Columbia’s 30th St. studios in New York City.  Audiophiles and purists love DuNann’s great sound, even though he is much less known than the secretive but redoubtable Rudy Van Gelder, who recorded infinitely more sides for Prestige, Blue Note, and Impulse records...

Go out and buy a copy of Sonny Rollins’ 1957 classic Way Out West.  It’s worth getting just for the cover shot by William Claxton, but the sound is like the great saxophonist is right there in your living room.  The audio quality is so pristine, the sound so palpable, that you can hardly believe that it’s a recording and not live.  The sound is so good it’s almost scary.  And this was in 1957 at the dawn of the stereo era.  Better than 99% of records made today." - KCRW Rhythm Planet

"I remember the moment when I first became intensely curious about Roy DuNann. It must have been about 1975, right after I moved to Seattle. I bought a Sonny Rollins LP called Way Out West, took it home, cued it up on my Thorens turntable, dropped the tonearm, and suddenly I was in a room with Rollins and Shelly Manne and Ray Brown. It was a shipping room with records stacked on shelves all around the musicians, but I wouldn't know that until many years later.

The song was, improbably, "I'm an Old Cowhand," and it began with Shelly Manne striking a woodblock in the right channel, and the blows carried in a perfectly defined acoustic space that included me. Then Rollins' tenor sax came in, so real in the left channel that I believed I could walk up and touch it. Deadpan, Rollins bit off the notes of Johnny Mercer's cowboy melody, the details of his pronunciation audible in his reed, now raspy, now clarion-clear.

The label was Contemporary, and the back of the album jacket said, "Recorded at Contemporary's Studios, Los Angeles. Produced by Lester Koenig. Sound by Roy DuNann." What made the sound truly astonishing was the recording date: March 7, 1957." - Stereophile

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
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All records will be safely packed in sturdy LP shipping boxes, with discs OUTSIDE of jackets to prevent splitting of seams.

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