WARDELL GRAY, Memorial Volume Two [Esquire] VAN GELDER mono 1957 UK LP

$

100

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Scrapple From The Apple - Wardell Gray

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Wardell Gray ?– Memorial Volume 2 Label: Esquire ?– 32-023 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono  Country: UK Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz Style: Bop Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Scrapple From The Apple Written-By – Charlie Parker A2 Move Written-By – Denzil Best B1 Bright Boy Written-By – Kendall Bright B2 Farmers Market Written-By – Art Farmer B3 Jackie Written-By – Hampton Hawes B4 April Skies Written-By – Buddy Collette B5 Lover Man Written-By – Roger Ramirez B6 Sweet And Lovely Written-By – Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias Credits Alto Saxophone – Sonny Criss (tracks: A1, A2)  Bass – Billy Hadnott (tracks: A1, A2), Harper Cosby (tracks: B1 to B6)  Congas – Robert Collier (tracks: B1 to B6)  Cover – Disley*  Drums – Chuck Thompson (tracks: A1, A2), Larry Marable* (tracks: B1 to B6)  Liner Notes – Ira Gitler Photography By – Ray Avery Piano – Hampton Hawes (tracks: B1 to B6), Jimmy Bunn (tracks: A1, A2)  Remastered By – Rudy Van Gelder Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon (tracks: A2), Wardell Gray Trumpet – Art Farmer (tracks: B1 to B6), Clark Terry (tracks: A1, A2)  Notes A1-A2 recorded 27/08/1950  B1-B6 recorded December 1951

UK MONO PRESSING VINYL ALBUM ON DEEP GROOVE LABEL IN FRONT LAMINATED FLIP-BACK SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE. This is an unbelievable 200+g weight pressing, a seriously thick slab of vinyl witha deep bass sound.  These UK Esquire pressings are pressed from the exact same first issue Van Gelder USA Prestige metalwork.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: PRLP-7009-A A  /  SIDE B: RVG PRLP-7009-B A

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. CORNER BUMPS BUT NO SEAM SPLITS.  INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: VISUALLY DISC IS EXCELLENT MINUS WITH NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND LIGHT PLAY SCUFFS.  WE HAVE PLAYED BOTH SIDES AND AURALLY GRADE IT VERY GOOD+, THERE ARE NO SKIPS OR JUMPS BUT SOME SURFACE NOISES IN PLACES. 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.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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