DONALD BYRD BYRD IN FLIGHT RARE SEALED BLUE NOTE 200-GR MONO LP TEST PRESSING

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·       DONALD BYRD with HANK MOBLEY, JACKIE McLEAN, DUKE PEARSON AND OTHERS – BIRD IN FLIGHT – RARE UNSEALED, UNUSED, STILL FACTORY SEALED  TEST PRESSING BY CLASSIC RECORDS USED FOR THE 2008 AUDIOPHILE RELEASE OF THE 1960 BLUE NOTE  MONO LP BLP-4048 ON AUDIOPHILE 200-GRAM VIRGIN VINYL

·       GENUINE U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL CLASSIC RECORDS MONO TEST PRESSING; BELIEVED MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL, FIRST GENERATION BLUE NOTE MASTER TAPES ***

·       PLAIN, GENERIC WHITE TEST PRESSING LABEL WITH BLUE CLASSIC RECORDS LOGO AND HAND-SCRAWLED CATALOG NUMBER ON ONE SIDE (THE OTHER SIDE IS ENTIRELY BLANK)

·       Original session recorded by ►Rudy Van Geldes

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       PLAIN, GENERIC, WHITE TEST PRESSING COVER,  STAMPED WITH ORIGINAL BLUE NOTE CATALOG NUMBER (BN LP-4048) AND SCHEDULED DATE OF RELEASE (6/19/2008) AND NOTHING ELSE

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

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

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By the time of this fourth Blue Note album by trumpeter Donald Byrd, it became clear that his playing was becoming stronger with the passing of time. This album features separate studio sessions from January and July of 1960 with constants Duke Pearson on piano and drummer Lex Humphries. Bassists Doug Watkins and Reggie Workman split duties six tracks to three, as do tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley and alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, making for some interesting sonic combinations, although Byrd is the dominant voice. Several of these selections are penned by Byrd, but it is pianist Pearson who contributes four of the most potent compositions on Byrd in Flight, supplying the wings for these quintet recordings to take off with. Of the Pearson originals, "Gate City," with Mobley, is an attractive soul shuffle with a basic tandem line played one time through; "Bo," with Byrd and McLean, is a singing, easy blues; and "My Girl Shirl" is an all-Byrd-led bopper with McLean in late and a brief Latin break. Byrd's "Ghana," dedicated to that country's liberation, is not so much Afrocentric as it is a hip modal Afro-Cuban to hard bop streaker in an assertive tone. "Lex" is typical hard bop fare, with the tenor saxophonist and trumpeter going to town, while a supreme version of the ballad standard "Little Boy Blue" has the ever present Pearson and Byrd in slow musical repast about lost opportunities, primed by the sultry bass playing of Workman. Given the split-decision nature of the two bands, and because it's nigh impossible to pick a favorite between the soulful Mobley and the more shrill McLean, listeners will have to decide if they can happily live with both versions of the group on one album, or hear more via other recordings apart from this seminal recording Donald Byrd hath wrought. Either way, the lover of hard bop to post-bop wins in the end.

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

Two separate dates are combined on this Blue Note album. Trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Duke Pearson and drummer Lex Humphries are heard in both quintets with either tenorman Hank Mobley or altoist Jackie McLean and Doug Watkins or Reggie Workman on bass. The consistently strong originals by Pearson and Byrd ("Little Boy Blue" is the lone standard) give this set its own personality and purpose. An excellent example of early '60s hard bop.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY SCOTT YANOW, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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Amazing! An unbelievable piece: What we have here is an unheard-of TEST PRESSING of this classic Blue Note hard bop masterpiece. It is possible (although not likely) that this test pressing  contains alternate versions of some of the tracks, but please don’t take our word for it: we regret that we cannot provide any competent information on how different this TEST PRESSING pressing may be from the official release. Please contact us if you have any questions).

The bidders should note that this is the test pressing of the Blue Note’s 2008 audiophile, analogue, 200-gram edition of the album and NOT the test pressing of the original 1960 issue; nevertheless, test pressings – even SUBSEQUENT generations of test pressings - are often known to include unusual mixes, alternate takes, demo versions and other oddities not usually associated with the known version of the release.

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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)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)             The record is  apparently 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!

·       COVER: This reference pressing comes without any custom jacket, and will be shipped in a plain, generic, white cardboard cover.

COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

NO SIGNIFICANT IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No wrinkles or creases

-        No yellowing from aging

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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