THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET PLUS TWO, At The Blackhawk MONO USA LP

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Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two – At The Blackhawk Label: Riverside Records – RLP 12-323 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono Country: US Released: 1966 Genre: Jazz Style: Bop, Hard Bop Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Let's Call This Written-By – Thelonious Monk Written-By – Thelonious Monk 8:32 A2 Four In One Written-By – Thelonious Monk Written-By – Thelonious Monk 8:37 A3 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Written-By – Bassman*, Washington* Written-By – Bassman*, Washington* 6:07 B1 Worry Later Written-By – Thelonious Monk Written-By – Thelonious Monk 9:09 B2 'Round Midnight Written-By – Williams*, Monk* Written-By – Williams*, Monk* 12:06 B3 Epistrophy (Closing Theme) Written-By – Thelonious Monk Written-By – Thelonious Monk 2:00 Companies, etc. Record Company – Orpheum Productions, Inc. Recorded At – The Blackhawk, San Francisco Mastered At – Components Corp. Credits Bass – John Ore Design [Cover] – Ken Deardoff Drums – Billy Higgins Engineer [Recording] – Ray Fowler, Reice Hamel Mastered By – Jack Matthews Piano – Thelonious Monk Producer, Liner Notes – Orrin Keepnews Tenor Saxophone – Charlie Rouse, Harold Land Trumpet – Joe Gordon Notes Recorded 'live' at The Blackhawk, San Francisco; April 29, 1960. Joe Gordon appears through the courtesy of VEE-JAY Records. Mastered on a HYDROFEED lathe. (The present album is also available in Stereophonic form on RLP 1171.) Blue / Green 1966-67 label Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Runout A): RLP 12 323 A Matrix / Runout (Runout B): RLP 12 323 B  

USA MONO 1966 PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD.  SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. TWO INCH SEAM SPLIT BOTTOM RIGHT.   INNER SLEEVE HAS SOME WEAR.

DISC: VISUALLY DISC IS VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SCRATCHES BUT SOME PLAY SCUFFS AND HAIRLINES. AURALLY IT PLAYS WITHOUT SKIPS OR JUMPS, BUT THERE ARE SOME SURFACE NOISES IN PLACES.  IT WOULD BENEFIT FROM A PROFESSIONAL CLEAN PRIOR TO FIRST PLAY. 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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