Lester Young Trio 2 x 12" 78rpm David Stone Martin
$
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LESTER YOUNG TRIO
Mercury C-104 / album of two 12" 78rpm discs, blue label
album: EX
labels: E+
surfaces: V+
play grade: 6.5 - 7.5 (see below)
Personnel: Lester Young, Aye Guy, Buddy Rich.
Songs: I Cover the Waterfront, I've Found a New Baby, Back to the Land, Somebody Loves Me.
The photo doesn't quite do justice to the condition of the album. The colors are bright, binding is tight and secure with unfaded title on spine. The only defects are slight wear at the bottom and right edges and a 1" scuff on the cover. I've seen a few copies of this album over the years, but never one where the cover art was this vibrant and unfaded.
Shipping: $5 media rate in the US. Outside US, estimate cost at a weight of 3 pounds +$1 for packaging.
Please check my other auctions, I will be listing a few dozen very desirable small group jazz 78s over the coming week.
PLAY GRADING: The visual condition of a 78 is rarely an indicator of how well it plays, so I play grade all 78s on a 10 point scale. I rarely sell discs that grade lower than 6, and discs that play grade 9 or 10 are rare. Note that these are overall ratings; the first few seconds as well as the loudest passages of a disc tend to be noisier than the rest. Often the grade is given as a range (e.g. "6.5 - 8"), meaning you will hear that range of sound quality. I do not sell cracked or chipped discs and I am careful to note any label or major surface defects in the description.
10: plays exceptionally well for shellac, indestinguishable or better than a mint LP of the pre-stereo era. Noise is minor.
9: excellent sound; plays with negligible surface noise, near LP quality
8: excellent sound; plays with minimal surface noise
7: good sound; plays with moderate surface noise
6: typical 78rpm sound, average condition, surface noise is somewhat distracting
5: tolerable sound; surface noise is about as loud as the music
split grades (6/8, 7/8, etc - one grade for each side of disc. 7.5=somewhere between 7 and 8, etc.)
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