CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUARTET Sonny Murray DEBUT 143 ORIG 1st Press Free Jazz RARE

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THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUARTET FEATURING SUNNY MURRAY: “Action”

Label: DEBUT

Label Number: DEB 143

RARE ORIGINAL DENMARK ONLY ISSUE, 1st ORIGINAL PRESS from 1965. Beautiful copy….

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent….has a couple barely visible papersleeve hairlines only detectable under bright light….great condition

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint, perfect sleeve with no damages, no signs of wear, no splits, no bend corners. Amazing shape.

Some words on this issue: The CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUARTET FEARURING SONNY MURRAY: “Action” (Debut – DEB-143) Original 1965 1st Danish MONO pressing in absolute excellent condition. great copy, jacket is super clean and record is EX. “John Tchicai was not the only Dane pursuing the "New Thing" in the early '60s. Trumpeter Hugh Steinmetz, alto saxophonist Franz Beckerlee and bassist Steffen Andersen were on the case in 1960, emulating Ornette Coleman's shape of jazz to come. As the core of the Contemporary Jazz Quartet, they began covering Ornette's early compositions, adding originals to their set lists until 1964, when they first recorded Action for the Danish Debut label. The drummer on the date was Sunny Murray, then in Copenhagen with a trio led by Don Cherry, a mentor to Steimetz. Luckily, more attention was paid to the music than to the album's cover, which billed the drummer as "Sonny Murray." While most of the compositions have the agitated, fragmentary feel of Coleman's late Atlantics, there is also a glimpse of the Danish folk lyricism Tchicai would all but trademark. Despite Steinmetz's indebtedness to Cherry, he bypassed the playfulness of Cherry's work on the early Contemporary and Atlantic dates, and articulated an intriguing approach to Cherry's slippery chromatic runs and lyrical positivism. Beckerlee had all but dispensed with Ornette as a role model; his raspy rants at times foreshadowing Peter Brotzmann. Andersen, whose jagged lines were closer to Gary Peacock than either Charlie Haden or Scott LaFaro, reinforced this departure from the model. Add Murray's spattered cymbals and surprisingly light snare touch, and the resulting music is consistently intriguing, and occasionally spellbinding.” (Bill Schoemaker). Great condition original 1st MONO pressing from 1965. MONO issue is seriously rare in such a nice nick as this one and one of the finest jazz records of that era.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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