1958 1st UK COLUMBIA HANK MOBLEY LEE MORGAN Monday Night At Birdland Superb Exc
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Proper heavy hitters of the hard bop era on a true 50's pressing. This is a £2k+ lp if it was on Blue note, and is in fact harder to find as this 64 year old UK original, in great sound - would have sold nothing and had no re-press back then. More 50s modern jazz to come all of this week. 1958 1st UK COLUMBIA HANK MOBLEY LEE MORGAN Monday Night At Birdland Superb Excellent to mint minus barely marked LP in a VG sleeve, bottom edge has been through the wars, as shown, two splits, centre and opening for 2 inches, only major fault. Clear pics of all details as you can see. Plays Near Mint on my Ortofon mono cart in lovely warm valve mono sound, excellent on a high end stereo contact line cart. Lee Morgan Trumpet Curtis Fuller Trombone Hank Mobley Tenor Saxophone Billy Root Tenor Saxophone Ray Bryant Piano Tommy Bryant Bass Specs Wright Drums
Famed jazz DJ Symphony Sid Torin ruled the roost in New York City from the earliest days of bebop up to the birth of its hard bop brethren in the late 1950s. Birdland was the focal point of the scene for the rising stars, especially a teenage trumpeter named Lee Morgan, fresh from Philadelphia and ready to take on the world. Morgan is the ostensible leader for these nightclub jam sessions done on two consecutive Monday nights, as he is upfront in the mix and brazenly takes charge of the melody lines throughout in these septet recordings. Emerging from the new music, trombonist Curtis Fuller, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, and pianist Ray Bryant are the principals on this date, with lesser-known but equally potent tenor man Billy Root, Ray's brother Tommy Bryant on bass, and drummer Charles "Specs" Wright rounding out this high-level combo of talent and enthusiasm. In his distinctive, dry, mush-mouthed manner, Torin introduces these standards as vehicles for extended solos, all familiar to mainstream jazz listeners. The full and rich melody of "Walkin'" is played one time through only, so the saxophonists can get right to business, with the tempo sped up for Morgan's solo, while Fuller leads out on "All the Things You Are" as the tenors second the motion and harmonise lightly. "Bags Groove" really emphasises the harmonic aspect of the four horns melting together, while Wright again rushes through "There Will Never Be Another You" amid the exciting work of Mobley and Root
HANK MOBLEY/LEE MORGAN Monday Night At Birdland (1958) UK COLUMBIA
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GREEN/GOLD Minigroove *MONO* COLUMBIA Labels MATRIX: RLP 29A - 2N / RLP 29B - 1N MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/G and 1/G HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED FLIPBACK SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending" COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED EMI EMITEX INNER SLEEVE
Side 1: Walkin' (12:35) All The Things You Are (11:17) Side 2: Bag's Groove (12:27) There Will Never Be Another You (9:26)
Our ethos is to offer you best sounding analogue only pressings of vintage records. Here is another beauty of that type. We offer massive postage subsidies to overseas buyers on multiple purchases. i.e £1 extra per lp to a maximum of £15, then no extra charge. We pack carefully in custom made hard card boxes. If the appearance or playgrade suggests it requires it, our records are cleaned on a wash and vac machine, using art du son fluid in distilled water. This is already in a new heavy poly outer with antistatic inners added with outer sleeve and records all layered behind each other to prevent splits.
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