RIC COLBECK The Sun Is Coming Up LP white label promo/test press EURO FREE JAZZ

	£		131
	$		174

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FOR AUCTION:-

RIC COLBECK QUARTET - THE SUN IS COMING UP 

Top UK / European free jazz rarity! 

This copy has hand-written promo or test press white labels (which perhaps makes it rarer still) - but be assured it is the genuine item not an unauthorised contemporary repress. 

The fully-laminated cover is the same as on the commercial release, as are the machine-stamped matrices in the deadwax:- 

6383001  1Y//1?420  1 1    1 

6383001  2Y//1?420  1 1    1

Colbeck was a rather cool and adventurous Englishman who took his trumpet to New York in the sixties and performed on Noah Howard's first two releases on ESP. This session was recorded at Chalk Farm Studios in London in 1970 with Mike Osborne (alto), J F "Jenny" Clark (bass) and Selwyn Lissack (drums). To my knowledge, it has never been commercially re-issued in any format.

COVER - EX+   Very clean and bright. Solid seams and spine, with no wear and no splits. Dinged and creased on the top left corner, a light crease on the top right corner, and a hint of wear on the bottom right corner. 6cm of laminate lift on the front near the bottom of the spine and a few very short and light creases in the laminate on both sides at the cover edges. No stickers or writing. Plain stock poly-lined inner (which looks as though it may not be the original).

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I will be liquidating a large part of my record collection over coming weeks - including some very nice "top end" and hard to find items in all genres - but particularly jazz, free jazz, soul jazz, bossa, dub, reggae and such like - please watch out for them................

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GRADING SCALE:   M/NM/EX/VG/G(+/-) visual grading - only play tested if specifically indicated above. NM is near mint not mint - I do not use M except for an unplayed record. 

                               [I will give a full no quibble refund (excluding return postage) on safe return of the record if you are not happy with my grading]

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