Red Rodney The New Sounds Prestige PRLP 122 10" Audio: NM Jazz Bebop hearb4ubuy
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Description
Original/very early U.S. Prestige 10-inch issue of Red Rodney’s The New Sounds, catalog PRLP 122, one of the label’s most desirable early modern-jazz 10-inch releases.
Recorded in New York on September 27, 1951, this session captures trumpeter Red Rodney leading his own quintet during the period immediately following his work with Charlie Parker. The personnel is:
Red Rodney – trumpet
Jim Ford – alto saxophone
Phil Raphael – piano
Phil Leshin – bass
Phil Brown – drums
Prestige discography confirms the September 27, 1951 session and identifies the seven performances that became PRLP 122.
Rodney’s historical importance is substantial. He had already established himself in the late 1940s as a first-rate bebop trumpeter and became one of the white musicians most closely associated with Charlie Parker’s working groups, bringing a hard-edged, agile trumpet style directly out of the bebop language.
This Prestige date is particularly important because, as Ira Gitler notes on the original rear cover, Rodney had surprisingly little small-group material under his own name at the time. This LP therefore documents him not as a sideman, but as a leader with his own working group and musical identity.
TRACKS
Side One
The Baron
This Time the Dream’s on Me
Mark
If You Are But a Dream
Side Two
Red Wig
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Coogan’s Bluff
Prestige’s own discography traces all seven titles to the September 1951 session.
WHY THIS RECORD MATTERS
This is an important transitional document from the early post-Parker bebop era.
Rodney plays with a directness and authority that reflects his time in Parker’s orbit, but this is not simply a Bird-derived date. The session also shows his lyrical side, especially on “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “If You Are But a Dream,” alongside sharper, more driving pieces such as “The Baron,” “Mark,” and “Red Wig.”
The original liner notes are by Ira Gitler, one of the most important chroniclers of modern jazz and a key figure in documenting Prestige’s early catalog.
PRESSING DETAILS
This copy carries the characteristics associated with the earliest issue family:
Prestige PRLP 122
10-inch mono LP
Blue Prestige labels
754 10th Avenue, New York address
Deep-groove label area
Hand-etched PRLP-122-A matrix visible
Original-style photographic front cover
Original striped liner-note back cover
Prestige pressing research dates this original configuration to around November 1951 and specifically identifies the striped liner-note back as the original jacket style. Later reissues used a different back-cover design and later address information.
CONDITION
Record plays NM audio.
The vinyl presents beautifully and grades Near Mint, with excellent gloss and very clean early Prestige labels.
The original jacket remains highly attractive for an early 1950s 10-inch Prestige release. There is light age toning, modest edge/corner wear and seam deterioration visible in the photographs. I would grade the cover VG+.
The original Prestige cover has done its job and preserved the record well. However, seam splitting is occurring. To help preserve both the record and the original cover/sleeve, the record will be placed in its own generic sleeve and shipped outside the original cover.
For the collector, the combination of Red Rodney, original early Prestige 10-inch format, 754-label configuration, Ira Gitler liner notes, and NM vinyl makes this a serious piece of early modern-jazz history.
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