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TUSQUES FRANCOIS, GUERIN B., VITET B., PORTAL M. & OTHERS: “Free Jazz”

Label: COLUMBIA RECORDS

Label Number: SL-5008-AX 

- MONSTER RARE JAPAN ORIGINAL PRESSING FROM 1970

- Comes housed in JAPAN ONLY JACKET ART

- NEAR MINT COPY

- Just never turns up

- Sounds superior to equally rare French original press

- TOP CONDITION – for ARCHIVAL COLLECTOR

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ Mint – shiny and glossy vinyl that seems to have had hardly any play – NO marks or hairlines – Perfect copy for archival collector, impossible to improve upon

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint. Perfect spine, fully readable. Sharp corners. Straight edges. TOP CONDITION with NO defects. Impossible to upgrade upon. Sole defect is a catalogue number seal on front upper right corner which can easily be removed if you are a bit handy. No splits/ No damages/ NO ringwear/ No signs of storage.

Some words on this issue: TUSQUES FRANCOIS, GUERIN B., VITET B., PORTAL M. & OTHERS: “Free Jazz” (Nippon Columbia – SL-5008-AX) This shit is so obscure as a Japanese press that it is rumored almost no regular label copies exist. Japanese press of this legendary hyper rare slide that originally (and only) saw the light of day on the Mouloudji label. It was simultaneously released in Japan only but with a totally Japan only different jacket art, making it even rarer than its French counterpart pressing since it virtually did not sell anything here in Japan. Neither one of these issues turns up these days, making it one of the rarest European free jazz slides around. That aside, the LP was recorded on 26 October 1965 at the Comedie de Champs Elysee in Paris and issued on the small Moloudji label the year after. These days it is regarded as the disc that originated the birth of free jazz in France. Main man Francois Tusques was flanked by Michel Portal, Bernard Vitet and Bernard (Beb) Guerin who later down the line would team up again in the ranks of the Michel Portal Unit.That all aside, this sonic masterpiece is a mature, cohesive and above all lunar jazz waves of simultaneous sound. The music veers from arranged to improvised passages in a very smooth manner in a heads down momentum kind of way that builds up into compulsive group interactions before meandering again in spontaneous individual sonic punctuations. There are hardly any extended solo sections or prominent egos to work around. Instead, time signatures change rapidly, pieces of melody are picked up, tossed around and then disappear as quickly as they came. Instruments intertwine throughout the entire record and everybody is on tiptoe and on the alert to what's going on around them. Decidedly "free", yet retaining melody, structure, rhythm, but never for too long before somebody comes up with another idea. The group as a unit accesses here the dawn of free music in France as the pure sound, teleporting these primal communication modes back towards each player’s individual sound that is in an ongoing state of expansion and derangement. Just beautiful and one of the key-recordings to document the birth of true free music in Europe. 

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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In case of purchase more than $200, item(s) must be shipped by EMS (Express Mail with internet tracking, and the insurance).

= EMS Shipping to USA/Canada/Mexico/Oceania = $25 for 1 LP, $29 for 2 LP's, and $33 for 3 LP's.

= EMS Shipping to UK/Europe/Russia = $28 for 1 LP, $32 for 2 LP's, and $36 for 3 LP's.

= EMS Shipping to South America = $37 for 1 LP, $42 for 2 LP's, and $48 for 3 LP's.

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