ALBERT AYLER BELLS RARE ORIG '65 ESP MONO PROMO LP 1010 SINGLE SIDED/BLACK VINYL

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·      ALBERT AYLER WITH CHARLES TYLER AND SUNNY MURRAY - BELLS  - VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1965 ESP DISK MONO PROMOTIONAL LP ESP(M)-1010

·      SINGLE SIDED PRESSING ON BLACK VINYL WITH SILK-SCREENED WHITE LETTERING ON THE BLANK SIDE OF THE RECORD)

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      *** PROMOTIONAL COPY; THE PROMOTIONAL STAMP ON THE COVER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·      NO LABELS ON THE RECORD.

·      RARE ORIGINAL ONE-SIDED DISC WITH ALBUM TITLE SILK-SCREENED IN WHITE PRINT ON ONE SIDE

·      The record has an "EAR" symbol (a pretzel-like engravure about 1/4-inch/6mm long) in the trail-off vinyl, which on SOME jazz labels is associated with very early or first pressings)

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      THICK CARDBOARD COVER, AMERICAN STYLE. (THIS IS THE WHITE COVER VARIATION WITH RED PRINT)

·      ORIGINAL SILK-SCREENED COVER

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·      THE RECORD HAS A 'BELL SOUND' STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

·      The record has ►SAM FELDMAN'S  initials (SF) clearly stamped or hand-etched in the trail-off vinyl (dead wax)

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Albert Ayler's short but definitive album, Bells  was a one-sided, collectors item vinyl platter limited to 1,000 copies. Covering about 20 minutes of music from the legendary Town Hall/N.Y.C. concert on May Day of 1965, it is not surprising to hear the angst and anguish in their music, considering it was made about five weeks after Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. Ayler and his quintet blow their own horns in alert of the "new thing" in jazz coming on strong, with no apologies as to its fierce intent or audacious stance. Brother/trumpeter Donald Ayler and alto saxophonist Charles Tyler join with the tenor saxophonist in a united front of sound and steel forged reserve in making free jazz a reality. The back cover has a reprint of Dan Morgenstern's Down Beat Magazine review of the performance, which is insightful, fair, accurate, and to the point, a good read for anyone who might dismiss Ayler's concept as something other than serious. The first of the two spontaneous compositions contains an outburst by the whole ensemble, followed by trumpet and tenor sax solos that bend notes and shapes in the extreme abstract. A free bop-based mid-section shows recording flaws, as drummer Sunny Murray and bassist Lewis Worrell are barely audible. Tyler's alto is drenched in the loud and abrasive tone the Ayler's dictated, but shows he has his own voice. The overtone-soaked music is tempered by a low-level bass solo from Worrell, with Murray's spare, splashy cymbal inserts, ending with a bouncy but eventual whirling dervish coda. The second, much longer improvisation, is based on Ayler's "Holy Ghost" theme, as a soulful, singing, vibrato-driven Ayler ignites Worrell via Murray's signature triple and quadruple flam accents. There's a clarion march theme repeated before and after congealed chaos, followed by deconstructed but distinct melodies, albeit brave and uncompromising. When all three of these horn players blow hard and strong together, it brings to mind Amiri Baraka's comment about "a terrible wholeness," as this purposefully saturated music stands alone as the most singularly unique early creative statement in modern music. As Albert Ayler recorded several definitive recordings before or after this one, and due to the very short length of Bells, it cannot be considered a magnum opus. But it does contain music played by his most powerful unit, a small window into the mind and heart of the most iconic maverick in the free jazz movement, and a magnet for discussion that lingers on well past his death.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MICHAEL G. NASTOS, ALL MUSIC GUIDE)

The PROMOTIONAL, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE OWNER OF ONE OF THE MOST MAJESTIC, MINDBLOWING RECORD COLLECTIONS ON THE PLANET EARTH (16,000 LP ALBUMS ALTOGETHER, OF WHICH ROUGHLY 10,000 TO BE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC), TO OFFER ONLINE HIS COLLECTION TO THE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS, SERIOUS JAZZ COLLECTORS AND GENERAL PUBLIC WORLDWIDE. BARRING ANY LAST-MINUTE DEVELOPMENTS, THIS WILL BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROJECT THIS SELLER HAS EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AND IS EXPECTED TO LAST ANYWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE YEARS. WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE OFFERING INDIVIDUAL ITEMS IN GROUPS OF 150-300 IN SIZE, LISTED APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH APART. THIS IS THE THIRD OF WHAT WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT 50 SIMILAR INSTALLMENTS AND SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT IS TO COME

THE BULK OF THE COLLECTION (ABOUT 90%) CONSISTS OF SOME OF THE RAREST AND MOST COVETED FREE- AND AVANT-GARDE JAZZ, SPIRITUAL JAZZ, RADICAL, FREE-BLOWING JAZZ, FAR-OUT FUSION, ELECTRONIC JAZZ, SOUL-JAZZ, BEAT POETRY, EXPERIMENTAL AND IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ AND MILITANT AND TRIBAL JAZZ OF EVERY SHAPE, SHADE AND FORM KNOWN TO MAN. NOTHING OF THIS NATURE HAS EVER BEEN SO SYSTEMATICALLY ASSEMBLED AND OBSESSIVELY PRESERVED IN ONE PLACE IN THE AVANT-GARDE JAZZ DOMAIN EVER, ANYWHERE, BY ANYONE. ALL MAJOR ARTISTS WHO EVER CREATED MUSIC IN THE FREE- , EXPERIMENTAL- AND SPIRITUAL JAZZ REALM WILL BE REPRESENTED, AS WILL BE HUNDREDS OF LESSER KNOWN, BUT EQUALLY INFLUENTIAL CULT ARTISTS WHO LEFT INDELIBLE STAMP ON THE WORLD OF THE MODERN JAZZ. LIKEWISE, ALL MAJOR STREAMS AND RECORDING LABELS OF FREE JAZZ WILL BE REPRESENTED, IMPRINTS SUCH AS ESP, INDIA NAVIGATION, EL SATURN, FMP, HAT HUT, BLACK SAINT, SOUL NOTE, RED RECORDS, 1HORO,  LEO (UK). TRIBE, ISPLASCH, QBICO, STRATA-EAST, BLACK JAZZ, BLACK LION, MOSAIC  AND DOZENS OF OTHER HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LABELS.  YOU CAN ALSO EXPECT TO SEE HUNDREDS OF PRIVATE PRESSINGS, TEST PRESSINGS , ACETATES, AUDIOPHILE AND LIMITED/NUMBERED RELEASES AND ALIKE. THE COLLECTION ALSO FEATURES A SMALL NUMBER OF OTHER GENRES, SUCH AS BLUES, R&B, FUNK AND LATIN AND A NEGLIGIBLE NUMBER OF ROCK TITLES..

THIS IS A FIERY, PASSIONATE MUSIC, PERPETUALY MODERN AND EVERY BIT AS TIMELESS AS THE DAY IT WAS BORN; A PERENNIAL QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY; AN ERUPTIVE, VOLCANIC STATEMENT - A SCREAM, REALLY - OF LIBERATION FROM ALL SOCIAL NORMS AND FORMS; IT IS TRULY A QUINTESSENTIAL LATE-20th CENTURY ART

THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN OBSESSIVELY BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS AND COMPULSIVELY PRESERVED FOR DECADES (SINCE THE MID-60s: THE OWNER BORE WITNESS TO THE MOST OF THE MODERN AMERICAN JAZZ HISTORY AND STORIES TO TELL). ASIDE FROM THE STILL SEALED ITEMS (YES, THERE WILL BE SOME), ALMOST 95% OF ALL ITEMS FALL INTO THE STRONG NEAR MINT TO UNPLAYED RANGE. MOST OF THE ITEMS FROM THIS COLLECTION WILL BE OF ARCHIVAL GRADE AND YOUR FINAL UPGRADES

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·      CONDITION:

·      RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++. A few light abrasions  ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly  insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)         The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

(d)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·      COVER  (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" SILK-SCREENED COVER)

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a partially split bottom seam (between 2 and 4 inches  / 5 to 10 centimeters)

-       Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 3

-       Back cover has circular tarnish (grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record),  probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.

-       Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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