DUKE ELLINGTON "Anatomy Of A Murder" 1959 UK PHILIPS NM
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24
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£ 24
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Sep 13, 2010
Sold Date
Sep 3, 2010
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£ 22
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DUKE ELLINGTON "Anatomy Of A Murder" 1959 UK PHILIPS NM
SOUNDTRACK TO OTTO PREMINGER'S MOVIE, BARELY PLAYED
DUKE ELLINGTON
Anatomy Of A Murder
ORIGINAL UK PHILIPS (BBL 7338) FIRST PRESSING (MONO, 1959) OF DUKE ELLINGTON'S CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK TO OTTO PREMINGER'S MOVIE "Anatomy Of A Murder" IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION - IT'S HARDLY, IF EVER, BEEN PLAYED AND IT'S HOUSED IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A STUNNING MINT EXAMPLE OF THE ORIGINAL LAMINATED DUO-FLIPBACK SLEEVE (LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE YESTERDAY) - FANTASTIC COPY OF ELLINGTON'S BIG BAND JAZZ AT ITS FINEST AND VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
THE RECORD HAS THE FIRST ISSUE MATT AND HEAVILY TEXTURED BLACK/SILVER PHILIPS LABELS WITH "MICROGROOVE" TEXT AND "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1959" STATEMENT
MATRIX: AA 07544 ? 1L ? 5 // 420 / AA 07544 ? 2L ? 3 // 420
By the time of Duke Ellington's engagement to write and record the music for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, he was an elder statesman of jazz.
He'd performed in, and contributed music to, various movies before, but those were almost all short subjects or B-musicals, or confined to a handful of numbers (Belle of the Nineties) -- Anatomy of a Murder, by contrast, was a four-star feature film with a first-class cast (led by James Stewart, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara) and director.
He rose to the occasion, creating a virtuoso jazz score -- moody, witty, sexy, and -- in its own quiet way -- playful. Ellington naturally subordinated his music to the action in the film, but "Midnight Indigo," "Flirtibird," "Happy Anatomy," and "Sunswept Sunday" (the latter highlighted by Jimmy Hamilton's clarinet theme) would have slotted in nicely in other contexts, on any of his standard albums
Track Listing:
Side One: Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder / Flirtibird / Way Early Subtone / Hero To Zero / Low Key Lightly / Happy Anatomy
Side Two: Midnight Indigo / Almost Cried / Sunswept Sunday / Grace Valse / Happy Anatomy / Haupe / Upper And Outest
LABELS: The labels are clean, fresh and unmarked with no evident spindle traces, just signs of very light rubbing around the spindle hole - beautiful, barely copy - NEAR MINT
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces still retain their original deep, like-new glossy sheen (amazing for an LP which is 50 years old). Under a strong light there are some wispy, superficial circular marks possibly made by a cleaning cloth but these are extremely minor and have no audio consequence - NEAR MINT
VINYL Audio: Superb MONO cut with a crystal clear, deep, rich sound - beautifully recorded and engineered. On playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my LPs prior to listing) there are no scratches, no sticks or jumps, no clicks or pops and just the slightest hint of (very minor) surface noise in a couple of spots but this lessened on my second play through and will undoubtably reduce on subsequent plays. The whole LP plays beautifully throughout to just about the highest possible standard with no distortion, no groove-wear, sounds wonderful and is very critically graded NEAR MINT for audio - great stuff and very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: The original fully laminated duo-flipback sleeve (which is very thin and flat) is in stunning condition - as clean, crisp and fresh as the day it was made - MINT
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