Very rare Dutch jazz flexi disc Diamond Five Parlez Moi De Velours. UNIQUE ITEM

$

149

Dear jazz fans,

I'm offering for sale a unique piece of relatively unknown and nearly forgotten Dutch jazz history, a flexi-disc recorded by legendary Dutch jazz combo The Diamond Five for a company called Velours Doree, manufacturer of curtains.

Here's the story, told by a friend :  "  In 2007 a friend and I, being huge Diamond Five fans, urged the Universal record company to reissue the Diamond Five lp "Brilliant". The LP had been reissued in Japan but we wanted to see a reissue for Europe as well and luckily Universal complied. 

During this time we had quite a few talks with the (then) surviving members of the Diamond Five, John Engels, Cees Slinger and Jacques Schols. We talked a lot about the old days, places they played and recordings they made. In one of these conversations Jacques Schols mentioned that beside the flexi disc that they recorded for the Puch company (the one that has "Sister Sadie" on it) they also recorded a flexi disc for another company. Jacques thought it might have been for a company that made wallpaper but no one could remember it exactly. 

Because we had already unearthed some other unreleased Diamond Five material that we planned on releasing on a compilation we thought it would be fantastic to try and include this unknown flexi with the other material as well. This led to a frantic search on our part to try and find this mysterious flexi disc. We asked several serious collectors if they knew anything about it but no one we spoke to had ever heard of this recording. We searched for this disc on the internet, in lots of shops and on even more flea markets and worked our way through an enormous amount of completely unlistenable advertisements until one day I came across this flexi disc. I put the needle on it and when the music started I immediately knew, this was the one!

We took it to John, Cees and Jacques who were thrilled to see and hear it after all these years and they confirmed that it was actually the one that they had recorded."

Yes, this is it. A unique record to complete your collection.

So now for the details:

The Diamond Five - Parlez Moi De Velours   (Flexi disc for the Velours Doree company, recorded in the 1960's)

Musicians:  Harry Verbeke (tenor sax), Cees Smal (trumpet), Cees Slinger (piano), Jacques Schols (bass) and John Engels (drums).

The recording starts with a spoken advertisement over a jazz backing (left out on the cd) which goes on for 1 minute and 45 seconds and is then followed by the tune which lasts for just over 4 minutes.

Condition of the vinyl (play graded):  VG++  (this being a flexi disc it plays with some light surface noise)

Condition of the cover:  EX