GIGI GRYCE QUINTET, Saying Somethin' [Esquire] VAN GELDER mono 1962 UK LP

$

135

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Back Breaker - Gigi Gryce

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Gigi Gryce Quintet ?– Saying Somethin'! Label: Esquire ?– 32-151 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono  Country: UK Released: Feb 1962 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Back Breaker Written-By – Gigi Gryce 6:10 A2 Leila's Blues Written-By – Gigi Gryce 6:50 A3 Blues In The Jungle Written-By – Gigi Gryce 6:21 B1 Down Home Written-By – C. Fuller* 8:22 B2 Let Me Know Written-By – Hank Jones 4:46 B3 Jones' Bones Written-By – Hank Jones 7:13 Companies, etc. Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Published By – Totem Music Credits Alto Saxophone – Gigi Gryce Bass – Reggie Workman Cover – Esmond Edwards Drums – Granville "Mickey" Roker*  Liner Notes – Ron Eyre Piano – Richard Wyands Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder Trumpet – Richard Williams Notes Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; March 11, 1960.

UK MONO PRESSING VINYL ALBUM ON DEEP GROOVE LABEL IN FRONT LAMINATED FLIP-BACK SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE. This is a 180+g original pressing with a deep bass sound.  These UK Esquire pressings are pressed from the exact same first issue Van Gelder USA Prestige metalwork.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: RVG NJLP-8230-A A  /  SIDE B: RVG NJLP-8230-B A

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+ JUST A LITTLE SHORT OF EXCELLENT MINUS FOR ITS AGE WITH LIGHT CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. NO SEAM SPLITS.  INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: VISUALLY DISC IS EXCELLENT MINUS WITH NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES.  WE HAVE PLAYED BOTH SIDES AND AURALLY GRADE IT VERY GOOD+, THERE ARE NO SKIPS OR JUMPS BUT SOME SURFACE NOISES IN PLACES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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