FREDDIE HUBBARD, First Light VAN GELDER USA 1st pressing Exc- LP FREE SHIPPING
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Mar 23, 2026 Sold Date
Mar 18, 2026 Start Date
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Freddie Hubbard – First Light Label: CTI Records – CTI 6013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Press, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1971 Genre: Jazz Style: Fusion, Soul-Jazz A1 First Light Written-By – Freddie Hubbard 11:00 A2 Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey Written-By – Paul & Linda McCartney 8:12 B1 Moment To Moment Written-By – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer 5:40 B2 Yesterday's Dreams Written-By – Don Sebesky, Norman Martin 3:55 B3 Lonely Town Written-By – Comden & Green*, Leonard Bernstein 6:55 Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Mastered At – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Arranged By – Don Sebesky Bass – Ron Carter Bassoon – Jane Taylor Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci Design [Album] – Bob Ciano Drums – Jack DeJohnette Engineer, Mastered By – Rudy Van Gelder Flute – Hubert Laws Flute, Bassoon – Wally Kane Flute, Clarinet – George Marge Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet – Romeo Penque French Horn – James Buffington*, Ray Alonge Guitar – George Benson Harp – Margaret Ross Percussion – Airto Moreira Photography By [Cover] – Pete Turner (4) Photography By [Liner] – Dean Brown (5) Piano – Richard Wyands Producer – Creed Taylor Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard Vibraphone – Phil Kraus Viola – Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi Violin – David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, Matthew Raimondi, Paul Gershman, Tosha Samaroff

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+.

DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are clearer, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  



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