Moondog - Moondog - Columbia Masterworks MS 7335 -1969 - NM/VG++

$

37

Thank you for your consideration of my auction offering!!     I am single owner of this LP

Label/Catalog Number:            Columbia Masterworks MS 7335

Condition: 
      Media:       NM  High gloss. In grooves in beautiful shape. A broad very light paper scuff across side 2 that
                                  has no affect on audio at all. Labels in perfect shape. (see photos)     
      Sleeve:     VG+  There is light shelf & ring wear (see last 2 photos). No seam splits or stains.  (see photos)
      Matrix:      Side 1:     (Stamped) XSM150716-1B         Side 2:      (Stamped) XSM150717-1B 

Moondog        Real Name:  Louis Thomas Hardin
Profile:
Born May 26, 1916 in Marysville, Kansas; died September 8, 1999 in Münster, Germany.   Moondog wrote all his music in braille having lost his sight in an accident involving a dynamite cap at the age of 17. Revered pioneer on the avant-garde/minimalist scene, usually within the jazz realm. His revolutionary attitude towards composition and melody was lauded by such eminent contemporaries as Philip Glass and Steve Reich, while his style and attitude drew comparisons to Harry Partch. His influence can be seen in the music of Stereolab and Moonshake among many others.

                                               ===========================================
Tracklist
A1     Theme     2:35
A2     Stamping Ground     2:36
A3     Symphonique #3 (Ode To Venus)     5:51
A4     Symphonique #6 (Good For Goodie)     2:45
B1     Mini-Sym #1     (5:45)
               B1a     I - Allegro    
               B1b     II - Andante Adagio    
               B1c     II - Vivace    
B2     Lament I, "Bird's Lament"     1:42
B3     Witch Of Endor     6:29
               B3a     I - Dance    
               B3b     II - Trio    
                   B3b1     A. Adagio (The Prophesy)    
                   B3b2     B. Andante (The Battle)    
                   B3b3     C. Agitato (Soul's Death)    
               B3c     III - Dance (Reprise)    
B4     Symphonique #1 (Portrait Of A Monarch)     2:36

Companies, etc.
    Manufactured By – Columbia Records
    Printed By – Shorewood Packaging
    Published By – Archimedes Music
    Published By – Skiff Music Corp.
    Produced For – Poseidon Productions (3)

Credits
    Baritone Saxophone – Wally Kane
    Bass – Alfred Brown, George Duvivier, Louis Hardin, Ron Carter
    Bass Clarinet – Ernie Bright
    Bass Trombone – Paul Faulise
    Bassoon – Don Macourt, George Berg, Jack Knitzer, Joyce Kelly, Ryohei Nakagawa, Wally Kane
    Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci
    Clarinet – George Silfies, Jimmy Abato, Phil Bodner
    Composed By [All Selections], Liner Notes – Louis Hardin
    Contrabass – Joe Tekula
    Design [Album Design] – Ron Coro
    Engineer [Engineering] – Arthur Kendy, Fred Plaut
    English Horn – Henry Shuman, Irving Horowitz
    Flugelhorn [Flügelhorn] – Joe Wilder
    Flute – Andrew Lolya, Harold Bennett
    French Horn – Brooks Tillotson, James Buffington, Ray Alonge, Richard Berg
    Percussion – Bob Rosengarden, Dave Carey*, Elayne Jones, Jack Jennings
    Photography By [Cover] – Don Hunstein
    Photography By [Inside] – Fred Lombardi
    Piccolo Flute – Harold Jones (2), Hubert Laws
    Producer – James William Guercio
    Producer [Associate Producer For Poseidon Productions] – Alfred Brown
    Tenor Vocals [Tenore] – Eugene Becker, Raoul Poliakin
    Trombone [Tenor] – Buddy Morrow, Charles Small*, Tony Studd
    Trumpet – Alan Dean, Joe Wilder, Mel Broiles, Teddy Weiss
    Trumpet [Bass] – Danny Repole
    Tuba – Bill Stanley, Don Butterfield
    Tuba [Tenor] – Bill Elton, Bill Stanley, John Swallow, Phil Giardina
    Viola – David Schwartz, Emanuel Vardi, Eugene Becker, Raoul Poliakin
    Violin – Aaron Rosand, Paul Gershman

Notes
All copyrights are administred by Archimedes Music (ASCAP), a Division of James William Guerico Enterprises, Inc., except Theme (Archimedes Music/Skiff Music Corp. [ASCAP]).
Library of Congress catalog card number R72-750723 applies to MS 7335.
Cover photo/inside photos: Columbia Records Photo Studio
Manufactured by Columbia Records
Unipak U.S. patent no. 3,426,960
Printed in U.S.A.
Gatefold sleeve

                                               ===========================================

The following are excerpts from Moondog´s original notes:

I was born in Marysville, Kansas, May 26, 1916 ... My first school was a log cabin in Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and my first teacher was my mother ... My first drum set, at the age of five, was a cardboard box ... In 1929, my dad [an Episcopal minister] sold the ranch and we moved east, eventually buying a farm in Hurley, Missouri. I played drums in Hurley High School. It was in Hurley that I lost my sight when a dynamite cap exploded ...
I finished high school in the Iowa School for the Blind. There I got my first real formal training in music and heard my first classical music. I studied violin, viola, piano, pipe organ, harmony and sang bass in the choir ... But much of what I know about music was self-taught, by reading braille books on the subject, doing much listening for ear training, so I could write down the music I heard in my head. I am so self-trained that I write all my music away from any Instrument. I do use the piano to test passages, but I do not rely on it ...
I began using Moondog as a pen name in 1947, in honor of a dog I had in Hurley, Missouri, who used to howl at the moon more than any dog I knew of ...
Though I was born in the United States, I consider myself "a European in exile" for my heart and soul are in Europe. I am a classicist at heart, and everything is classically conceived, in form, content and interpretation ... I feel like I have one foot planted in America and one in Europe, or one in the present and one in the past. Rhythmically, I am considered to be in the present, even avant garde, whereas melodically and harmonically I am very much in the past. But the present becomes the past just as the future becomes the present. As I say in one of my lyrics, "Today is yesterday´s tomorrow which is now ...

Theme was first recorded in 1952, following a period of buying up old instruments and working out the parts, and then finally dubbing them all in - reeds, brass, percussion and strings. It is not only a theme, but, it is my theme, a sort of musical signature ... Stamping Ground is in D Minor, in the vein of Lament I, but the melodic line works itself into a canon, or the melodic line is a canon, and revels itself as such as the piece progresses ... Symphonique #3(Ode to Venus) is a twelve-part canon with a four-bar coda. With an implied reference to Tchaikovsky´s "None But the Lonely Heart," it creates a very lush, impassioned contrapuntal texture, full of the joys and sorrows of love ... Symphonique #6 (Good for Goodie), dedicated to Benny Goodman, is in the swing style, though classically conceived. The form is called a ground, that is, a theme played over and over in the bass. Counting the ground, this piece is in seventeen-part counterpoint - every eight bars a new part comes in, and, once in, keeps repeating its eight bars to the end. The first added part is for Goodie, and that part is played in the highest register of the clarinet on the last repeat, up high like Benny plays ... Minisym #1: Minisym refers to either the orchestra or to a composition, like saying that a symphony plays a symphony. It has three short movements, each with a middle section or trio ... Lament I (Bird´s Lament) was written in honor of Charlie Parker, on hearing of his death. It is a chaconne, a four-bar accompaniment that is repeated over and over with a free melodic line over it, played by an alto sax, Bird´s instrument, with an obligato played on a baritone sax. Bird used to stop by my door-way back in 1951-2 and talk about music. One night I met him in Times Square and shook a shaking hand, not realizing that would be the last time we would meet ... Witch of Endor is part of a ballet that I wrote for Martha Graham. It begins and ends in 5/4 time, dances by the witch. The trio consists of three parts: I. The witch´s prophecy of Saul´s death; 2. An idealized depiction of the battle on the mountain, and Saul, realizing he is losing it, decides to take his own life by falling on his own sword, held by a soldier; 3. The death of Saul ... Symphonique#1 (Portrait of a Monarch) is a symphonic synthesis, a musical portrait of Thor the Nordoom, Emperor of Earth, a fictitious person but nonetheless factual. By means of having a monopoly on the world´s gold supply, he rules from behind the scene, by means of agents and double agents. It opens vigorously, imperiously, depicting bis absolute power; then comes the section showing his jocular side, a robust good humor; then a return to the towering strength of his personality, closing with a long chord, diminishing to a whisper, for he is one who knows peace and calm, the peace and calm of one who crushes all opposition to his will ...        - Moondog                      -from moondogcorner.de

                                               ===========================================

We use a Music Hall WCS-2 machine and thoroughly vacuum clean all records. Each order is carefully packaged by removing the LP from the jacket to avoid seam splits. Media comes in a new Spin Care premium inner sleeve providing Anti Static, Anti Dust & Anti Scratch features as well as a new poly sleeve outer jacket. Our records are packed in cardboard pad inserts and placed in sturdy record mailers for safe delivery.   We take Customer Service seriously, and want you to be satisfied. If your expectations are met or exceeded, we'd appreciate it very much if you'd consider providing feedback that reflects your satisfaction.  Alternatively, please provide the courtesy of contacting us if expectations are not met, so a resolution can be achieved.