Warren Mills Blues Serenaders, 2 12" unissue styrene mx tests BLACKBIRDS 78 E+

$

150

ARTIST:  Warren Mills and His Blues Serenaders
LABEL:   Two unissued 12" Victor masters, 49008-4 and 49008-6 
TITLES:  Sequence of 'gems' from both pressings:
I Can't Give You Anything Blut Love Diga Diga Do I Must Have That Man Magnolia's Wedding Day I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Take 4: Unissued Take 5: Issued in 1929 on Victor 35926 Take 6: Issued in 1974 on Jazz Archives 21 LP Take 7: Lost
CONDITION:  E+
DESCRIPTION: Fabulous sound on these 2 unissued styrene master tests of 12" Gems from "Blackbirds of 1928" listed in red above.  Take 4 and 7 are not listed in Rust.   There was no such bandleader as Warren Mills.  Irving named the session after his 5 year old son Warren.  Plenty of guess work went into identifying the personnel (see Rust clip below) and I'm sure it's still up for debate. 
Each of these takes is quite different musically.

Matt Malneck, vn , dir: Manny Klein, Red Nichols and another, t / Tommy Dorsey, tb / Jimmy Dorsey, Arnold Brilhart, as / ts / 4 vn / Arthur Schutt, p / Eddie Lang, g / 2 bb / d / 3 female and 6 male (4 of them apparently black) voices, with unknown female soloist. New York, February 1, 1929.
78 GRADING:  We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted,  eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).  

E+

Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear.  N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.

E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black. 

E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.

V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.

V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.

V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.

P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.