KENNY GRAHAM'S AFRO-CUBISTS.1954ESQUIRE EP EXCELLENT

	£		77
	$		102

A UK ISSUED JAZZ E.P. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!

THE FIRST DECENT COPY TO BE SEEN ON EBAY OR ANYWHERE IN MONTHS,PROBABLY YEARS FROM A RELIABLE POWER SELLER AND JAZZ COLLECTOR!

JAZZ EPs ARE NOT GENERALLY RARE AND EVEN ESQUIRE ONES TURN UP AT RECORD FAIRS AND IN COLLECTORS RECORD SHOPS BUT THOSE THAT DO ARE USUALLY TRADITIONAL JAZZ OR IF MODERN JAZZ AS ON OFFER FROM ME ARE IN POOR ALMOST UNPLAYABLE CONDITION.READ ON FOR A REFRESHING CHANGE OT THAT SITUATION!  

KENNY GRAHAM'S AFRO CUBISTS

JO HUNTER(TRUMPET)

KENNY GRAHAM,JOE TEMPERLEY,EDDIE MORDUE,NORMAN FANTHAM

(ALL TENOR SAXES)

DON HONEYWILL(BARITONE SAX)

DILL JONES(PIANO)

ROY PLUMMER(GUITAR)

SAMMY STOKES(BASS)

PHIL SEAMEN(DRUMS)

DONALDO(BONGOS)

JUDY JOHNSON(MARRACAS and VOICE)

TRACKS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

TEMPO MEDIO LENTO

DANCE OF THE ZOMBIES

SAGA BOY

HAITIAN RITUAL.

ALL FOUR ARE KENNY GRAHAM COMPOSITIONS

ESQUIRE EP-34.

RECORDED OCTOBER 23rd/27th 1953.

ULTRA CLEAN EXAMPLE HOUSED IN ART WORK COVER+A PHOTO OF KENNY GRAHAM AT THE BACK(SEE PHOTO#2) WITH A FEW TINY STAINS BUT NO WRITING,RIPS OR REPAIRS!

ONE OF A STACK OF ORIGINAL 1950s ESQUIRE LABEL E.P.s ON AUCTION FROM ME THIS WEEK AND FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AND MONTHS!

ESQUIRE WAS THE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LABELS FOR BRITISH,EUROPE AND SELECTED AMERICAN JAZZ 1950s RECORDINGS!

AN E.P. THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN RARE BUT OVER 50 YEARS LATER IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN ANY CONDITION!   

BARELY PLAYED-OUTSTANDINGLY QUALITY VINYL WITH GLEAMING SURFACES AND A LITTLE SURFACE NOISE MAINLY YEARS OF STORAGE DUST AND NO NASTY LOUD CLICKS,JUMPS OR STICKS!

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RARE BRITISH  JAZZ EP,THEN THIS COULD BE THE ONE FOR YOU!

IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER DELIGHT FROM ONE OF THE UKs LEADING RECORD  EXPERTS/DEALERS.  

FROM A RECENTLY PURCHASED COLLECTION OF TOP QUALITY EPs and LPs OWNED FROM NEW BY ONE OF THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT OF ESQUIRE RECORDS WHO HARDLY USED HIS RECORDS AND STORED AWAY FROM LIGHT AND HEAT IN A CUPBOARD FOR OVER 50 YEARS!

A JAZZ RECORD COLLECTORS DREAM-PLEASE READ ON FOR IN DEPTH DETAILS!!

MUSICALLY AFRICAN INFLUENCED JAZZ WITH 4 TRACKS THAT RUN FOR ABOUT 3 MINUTES EACH.  

IT ALMOST BREAKS MY HEART TO SELL IT!!!! 

ESQUIRE RECORDS WERE AN INDEPENDENT BRITISH JAZZ LABEL WHOSE RECORDS WERE NOT ALWAYS GIVEN MUCH PUBLICITY,OFTEN NOT STOCKED BY GENERAL RECORD SHOPS(WHO WOULD ORDER THEM ON REQUEST),USUALLY SOLD IN SPECIALIST SHOPS.

THE PRINT RUN FOR ESQUIRE EPs IN 1954 WAS PROBABLY JUST A THOUSAND(IF THAT) AND GIVEN THE FACT THAT IN 1954,MANY BUYERS FOR JAZZ WERE STICKING WITH THE BREAKABLE 10 INCH 78s,IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THIS EP ONLY SOLD A FEW HUNDRED COPIES,AND SO OFTEN EPs WERE MUDDLED UP WITH 78s RESULTING IN BAD SCUFFING AND EVEN BEING PLAYED WITH 78 RPM STYLI IN ERROR,SO HOW MANY SURVIVE OVER 50 YEARS LATER AS GOOD AS THIS EXAMPLE????

DON'T FORGET IN MANY CASES THE CONTENTS OF THESE EPs WERE NOT ISSUED ON LPs AND OVER THE YEARS HAVE OFTEN BEEN OVERLOOKED WHEN REISSUE LPs OR CDs ARE COMPILED.

THEY WERE SOMETIMES MADE AND ISSUED AS IN BETWEEN ALBUM PROJECTS OR ON SHORT TERM DEALS WITH OVERSEAS LABELS.

I AM SURE YOU CAN CHECK OUT INDIVIDUAL DETAILS ON THE CONTENTS WITH SOME INTERNET RESEARCH!

SO OFTEN THE MASTER TAPES FOR THESE EPs HAVE BEEN LOST,WIPED OR DAMAGED AND SO THIS MIGHT BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO ACTUALLY HEAR THIS MUSIC WHICH BEING ON ESQUIRE IS EXCELLENT! 

I HAVE NOT FOUND SUCH BREATHTAKING QUALITY FOR AN ESQUIRE E.P. OF THIS VINTAGE FOR QUITE SOMETIME.THEY ARE SIMPLY NOT TURNING UP AS FREQUENTLY AS THEY DID,EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO.MOST HAVE NOW LEFT THE UK FOR THE COLLECTIONS OF JAPAN,AMERICA AND THE FAR EAST NEVER TO RETURN TO THE SELLING MARKET.

THIS MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET SUCH A RARE AND MUSICALLY BRILLIANT E.P. LIKE THIS ONE IN ALMOST AS NEW CONDITION WITH THE BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED COVER!

THE RECORD HAS NO SURFACE PATCHES OR BAD STORAGE ISSUES,NO WARPING,NO SCUFFS,NO SCRATCHES,NO FADING etc.

THE SURFACES GLEAM WITH THAT BARELY PLAYED LOOK.THE  SURFACE NOISE HERE AND THERE IS MORE THAN LIKELY STORAGE DUST BASED ON ABOUT 50 YEARS OF THE DISC NOT BEING PLAYED!

LARGE CENTRE HOLE PRESSING WITH 3 PRONG PLASTIC CENTRE. 

PLEASE LOOK AT THE PHOTOS OF THE BRIGHTNESS AND SHARPNESS OF THE GOLD PRINT"A"SIDE LABEL+FRONT/BACK COVER.

THE COVER HAS NO WRITING/NO FADING/NO RIPS/NO REPAIRS-IT WILL BE HARD TO BEAT.

SOME MINOR STAINING AT THE BACK.

THE PREVIOUS OWNER WAS ONE OF THE MAIN DECISION MAKERS AT THE ESQUIRE RECORD COMPANY AND NATURALLY HAD THE BENEFIT OF GETTING THE BEST COPIES,ONE OF THE VERY FIRST OFF THE PRESSES AND INDEED IT IS HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS RECORD TO APPEAR ON EBAY FOR YEARS DIRECT FROM SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME! JUST ONE PREVIOUS OWNER IN OVER 50 YEARS!!!!!!!! 

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH ME ON EBAY SINCE 2002 AND INDEED ELSEWHERE BEFORE SINCE 1986, WILL PROBABLY KNOW I HAVE BEEN A RESPECTED  MUSIC EXPERT AND COLLECTOR FOR MANY YEARS CALLED UPON BY RADIO,TV AND PRICE GUIDES FOR MY ADVICE AND KNOWLEDGE.

UNLIKE OTHER SELLERS, I AM IN MY MID FORTIES AND HAD THE ENCOURAGEMENT FROM EVEN MY PRE-SCHOOL AGE TO ENJOY ALL STYLES OF MUSIC FROM MY LATE FATHER, WHO WAS A RESPECTED MUSICIAN AND COLLECTOR OF CLASSICAL AND JAZZ MUSIC.

BY MY TEENAGE YEARS, ALTHOUGH LISTENING TO THE POP MUSIC OF THE 1970s, I TENDED TO ACTUALLY ENJOY JAZZ AND CLASSICAL MUSIC MORE.

I HAVE SINCE DEVELOPED A KNOWLEDGE OF IT AND ESPECIALLY KNOW THE VERSIONS THAT ARE REGARDED BY MANY AS THE BEST AND WHILST I AM IN THE BUSINESS TO SELL, I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE ITEMS I AM SELLING.

IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET SUCH AS EBAY, THIS IS GETTING RARE SO YOU CAN BID WITH COMPLETE CONFIDENCE!

A VERY NICE PRESSING!  

MOST COPIES THAT SURVIVE ARE IN POOR CONDITION-THIS ONE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH A LITTLE SURFACE NOISE.

NO STICKS!/NO JUMPS!/NO CLICKS!

A COPY THAT HAS BEEN PLAYED ONLY A HANDFUL OF TIMES,POSSIBLY AS FEW AS 2-3 HAVING SPOKEN AT LENGTH TO THE PREVIOUS OWNERS SON,SELLING DUE TO HIS FATHERS PASSING. 

Just how many were preserved like this one FROM A RELIABLE INDUSTRY SOURCE ??!!!!!!  

The MONO ONLY mixes are Superb and full of bass, with a natural warmth from those VERY EARLY VINYL days OF OVER 50 YEARS AGO!

In the 1950s, many were using terrible old and heavy equipment and using worn styli or nasty autochangers that would scuff the discs forever in seconds at the time not aware that years later even the slightest damage would be evident on more sophisticated audio.

The 1950s equipment was quite often a bit basic and it was suggested to play E.P.s at between 5 and 8 grammes, which of course after a few plays would produce on later plays that nasty"film of fizzy distortion"so often IGNORED by sellers and in MY LISTENING GRADING is ALWAYS LISTENED OUT FOR WITH THE TREBLE FULL ON AND PLAYED TWICE TO ENSURE THE BEST AND MOST ACURATE GRADING!!!! 

 To find immaculate copies all these years later is getting almost impossible!FACT!

THEY ARE SIMPLY DRYING UP! 

These mixes are far punchier but are rather flat on the CDs that have come out!

Vinyl is still the best way to hear vintage JAZZ music like this one and always will be!  

GREAT WIDE RANGE SOUND WITH GREAT BASS!

I TEST ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITHOUT FILTERING OR A MONO SWITCH.

Look elsewhere on ebay and you WON'T see other copies-If by some sheer miracle you do just look closer and you will find they are often REPRODUCTION reissues, or lower grade copies with all manner of faults.

MOST RECORDS ON EBAY ARE IN DIABOLICAL, BAD CONDITIONS ATTEMPTED TO BE  SOLD BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GRADE OR BOTHER TO ACTUALLY PLAY THEM FOR AN ACURATE DESCRIPTION!

This is A POSSIBLE UPGRADER COPY-EXAMINE YOURS IF YOU HAVE ONE AT ALL AND IT MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS YOU THINK!

ORIGINAL FANTASTIC SLEEVE SO OFTEN MISSING!!  

REMEMBER I AM GRADING STRICTLY! PLEASE STUDY THE PHOTOS!

As both a collector and dealer,I AM VERY STRICT ON GRADING but DO CHECKOUT MY FEEDBACK FOR GRADING PROOF!!!!

Realistic  £10 STARTING price with no annoying reserve. BUY IT NOW OFFERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

HARDLY ANY ESQUIRE EPs OF THIS VINTAGE SELL FOR LESS AND I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW GOOD THEY ARE.DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS FRANTIC BIDDING AT THE LAST MINUTE.

DON'T LEAVE IT AND REGRET IT LATER!!!!!!!!!!!THIS MAY NOT BE REPEATED FOR A LONG TIME! 

THIS IS A GREAT CHANCE TO OWN A SUPER AND RARE E.P. A GREAT INVESTMENT! 

Postage is £2 RECORDED DELIVERY-SOLID PACKING FAR BETTER THAN THE MAJORITY OF SELLERS-LOOK AT THE FEEDBACK FOR PROOF! YOU WILL GET IT IN FINE SHAPE!!

Outside UK extra depending on destination. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO SEVERAL ITEMS OVERSEAS BEING"LOST", IF THE OPTION TO SEND INSURED IS REFUSED THEN I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST ITEMS. I DO NOT DRAMATICALLY INCREASE POSTAGE ON SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT.Paypal or cheque within 7 days please.

CHEQUE WILL NEED TIME TO CLEAR BEFORE DELIVERY. 

SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES FOR SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT

DO NOT BID UNLESS YOU INTEND TO PAY.Feedback always left. BE AWARE!!!! NON PAYERS AND TIMEWASTERS WILL BE DEALT WITH AND REPORTED TO EBAY AS WELL AS CIRCULATED VERBALLY AND BY EMAIL TO MY MANY DEALER AND COLLECTOR FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

Checkout my power seller status and my own feedback of OVER 9000 comments of my standards and service many from some of the world's most respected collectors and dealers. BUY with confidence! Always adding quality Records, cd's and related items to ebay several times a week. Customers from all over the world regard my  ebay selections as the #1 for QUALITY,VARIETY AND SERVICE.

I HAVE BEEN A DEALER SINCE 1986 WITH OVER 7 YEARS ON EBAY.

I ACTUALLY LISTEN TO MY ITEMS ON GOOD QUALITY EQUIPMENT, USUALLY TWICE TO ENSURE THE VERY BEST POSSIBLE AND ACURATE GRADE-I WANT LONG TERM REGULAR CUSTOMERS WHO WANT TO RETURN TO BUY FROM ME WITH FAITH AND TRUST.

LOOK AT MY FEEDBACK AND SEE WELL KNOWN RESPECTED COLLECTORS AND DEALERS WHO BUY FROM ME OVER AND OVER-NOTE WHAT THEY SAY-PAGE AFTER PAGE OF GLOWING STATEMENTS! 

UK Customers are very welcome to collect ebay winnings  by prior email arrangement.OVER 7 YEARS ON EBAY and many more before as a keen collector! Thanks for looking and good luck.

OTHER STYLES OF MUSIC ON EBAY FROM ME-SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE-LOOK NO FURTHER!!!!!

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY,MAYBE FOR THE LAST TIME FOR THIS SUPER BRITISH ISSUED JAZZ E.P.!

I HAVE MENTIONED EVERYTHING BUT IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK.

MANY MORE FANTASTIC ESQUIRE  EPs and LPs TO COME IN FUTURE WEEKS FROM THIS COLLECTION FROM THE SAME ERA!

KEEP WATCHING!

 DON'T LEAVE YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN!

THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET SUCH A WONDERFUL E.P. LIKE THIS ONE!

GOOD LUCK AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.