Miles Davis/Young Man With A, Classic Records Blue Note 10" Vinyl Mono LP (used)
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This is Miles Davis' first Blue Note recording released in 1952 as a 10" LP with the title apparently borrowed from a 1950 movie of the same name starring Kirk Douglas. The line up on the six song LP features Jay Jay Johnson, Jackie McLean, Gil Coggins, Oscar Pettiford and Kenny Clark backing up the Young Man with a Horn. This record swings and the playing is obviously from a more romantic Miles trying to find his way. The authentic "deep groove" non-groove guard pressing in an authentic tip on jacket will fool even the best collectors. Cut on the newly restored Classic Mono Cutting System at Bernie Grundman mastering by Mr Be Bop himself! Even if you don't own a record player you have to have this record if you want to be cool.
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From Michael Hobson:
BLP 5013 Miles Davis - "Young Man With A Horn". We started with the original session master that includes alternate takes of a few of the tunes recorded in March 1952. The tape is a 15 ips 1/4" fulltrack mono on Scotch 111 tape stock. The tape is in great condition for being 50 years old and represents an important piece of Jazz history and a document of a young Miles trying to "Find a Lick" as Ron Rambach of Music Matters says in sarcastic jest.
The six tunes on the 10" record were cut on a vintage Mono cutting system restored for the Classic Blue Note Signature LP series which features an original Westrex 2B cutter head and Western Electric Tubecutting amplifier. The sound is vintage and lush and was not limited as it is obvious that the original pressing used for comparison in mastering was. We discovered some tape distortion in a few places that is more noticeable on the original tape than on the limited production copy that cut the original pressings. Also, original 10" Blue Note LP's from the early 1950's are notoriously noisy which further masks the tape distortions common when early Scotch 111 tape is saturated which it is in some of the passages that Miles blows on. We could have used a cedar noise reduction device but chose for authenticity purposes not to. What you get is a true document of Miles from early 1952 - warts and all.
The pressings were done at Erika Records in Los Angeles on vintage manual presses that feature no groove guard and the classic "deep groove" that Blue Note collectors seek out as most desirable. Classic Records worked very closely with Erika personnel to help improve consistent quality across pressings which is more difficult with manual presses than with the fully automatic presses utilized at RTI (which does not press 10" records.)
The next 10" in the series is Miles Davis Vol. 3 (Mar 2002 release), recorded in 1954 is much more solid in terms of both the performance and the recording - Scotch improved the tape stock substantially by 1954! Both of these records are vastly superior to the original pressings and are must have's for Miles Davis fans.
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