STEVE LACY w/JOHNNY DYANI & ENRICO RAVA FOREST & ZOO RARE ORIG '67 ESP STEREO LP

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·      STEVE LACY QUARTET– THE FOREST AND THE ZOO - ORIGINAL 1966 E.S.P. RECORDS STEREO LP  ESP(S)-1060

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·      ORIGINAL, CUSTOM ESP LABELS WITH THE BLACK & WHITE IMAGE OF THE ARTIST, UNIQUE TO THIS RELEASE

·      PRESTIGE RECORDS, BERGENFIELD, NJ PRESSING

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·      ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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According to the liner notes of this new edition, Steve Lacy walked into the ESP-Disk offices in New York in 1966 and offered to sell Bernard Stollman a tape of a concert he had recorded with his quartet during a concert in Argentina (where they had been stranded). That band was truly an international one: Lacy and Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava made up the front line, and the rhythm section included South African expats Johnny Dyani on bass and drummer Louis Moholo -- who had both been members of the Blue Notes and the Brotherhood of Breath with Chris McGregor. Engineer Ken Robertson brought the tape back to Stollman in 1992, claiming the entire album had been recorded out of phase. This makes sense given the lags on the original. The remastered and reissued CD version issued in 2008 claims to have fixed that problem. It hardly matters. The musical interaction that takes place over 40 minutes here is compelling, fraught with openness and the willingness to explore the margins. Unlike a lot of the other "new thing" recordings made at the time, the focus here is unusually rich, expressive, colorful, and easy on the ears -- though it may not have been at the time. Lacy, who came up playing in Dixieland groups before he heard Thelonious Monk, had been increasingly influenced by the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler. His own exploration of his chosen instrument, the soprano saxophone, is all evident here in the manner in which he is considering new tonal, textural, and color possibilities as a soloist and as a functioning member of an ensemble. This is white-hot musical invention -- it meanders, swoops, soars, digs in its heels, and above all offers a staggering kind of communication between four players who took nothing for granted and knew that everything was up for grabs. Even at this early stage of Lacy and company's investigation of free and improvised music, there is a healthy melodicism, rich counterpoint exchanges between Lacy and Rava, and a wildly expansive rhythmic palette employed by Dyani and Moholo. This is not normally considered an essential part of Lacy's very large catalog, but in the 21st century it does deserve to be heartily and critically reexamined. The cover painting by the late artist Bob Thompson makes the set worth owning simply for its beauty

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY THOM JUREK, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE OWNER OF ONE OF THE MOST MAJESTIC, MINDBLOWING RECORD COLLECTIONS ON THE PLANET EARTH (16,000 LP ALBUMS ALTOGETHER, OF WHICH ROUGHLY 10,000 TO BE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC), TO OFFER ONLINE HIS COLLECTION TO THE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS, SERIOUS JAZZ COLLECTORS AND GENERAL PUBLIC WORLDWIDE. BARRING ANY LAST-MINUTE DEVELOPMENTS, THIS WILL BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROJECT THIS SELLER HAS EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AND IS EXPECTED TO LAST ANYWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE YEARS. WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE OFFERING INDIVIDUAL ITEMS IN GROUPS OF 150-300 IN SIZE, LISTED APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH APART. THIS IS THE THIRD OF WHAT WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT 50 SIMILAR INSTALLMENTS AND SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT IS TO COME

THE BULK OF THE COLLECTION (ABOUT 90%) CONSISTS OF SOME OF THE RAREST AND MOST COVETED FREE- AND AVANT-GARDE JAZZ, SPIRITUAL JAZZ, RADICAL, FREE-BLOWING JAZZ, FAR-OUT FUSION, ELECTRONIC JAZZ, SOUL-JAZZ, BEAT POETRY, EXPERIMENTAL AND IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ AND MILITANT AND TRIBAL JAZZ OF EVERY SHAPE, SHADE AND FORM KNOWN TO MAN. NOTHING OF THIS NATURE HAS EVER BEEN SO SYSTEMATICALLY ASSEMBLED AND OBSESSIVELY PRESERVED IN ONE PLACE IN THE AVANT-GARDE JAZZ DOMAIN EVER, ANYWHERE, BY ANYONE. ALL MAJOR ARTISTS WHO EVER CREATED MUSIC IN THE FREE- , EXPERIMENTAL- AND SPIRITUAL JAZZ REALM WILL BE REPRESENTED, AS WILL BE HUNDREDS OF LESSER KNOWN, BUT EQUALLY INFLUENTIAL CULT ARTISTS WHO LEFT INDELIBLE STAMP ON THE WORLD OF THE MODERN JAZZ. LIKEWISE, ALL MAJOR STREAMS AND RECORDING LABELS OF FREE JAZZ WILL BE REPRESENTED, IMPRINTS SUCH AS ESP, INDIA NAVIGATION, EL SATURN, FMP, HAT HUT, BLACK SAINT, SOUL NOTE, RED RECORDS, 1HORO,  LEO (UK). TRIBE, ISPLASCH, QBICO, STRATA-EAST, BLACK JAZZ, BLACK LION, MOSAIC  AND DOZENS OF OTHER HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LABELS.  YOU CAN ALSO EXPECT TO SEE HUNDREDS OF PRIVATE PRESSINGS, TEST PRESSINGS , ACETATES, AUDIOPHILE AND LIMITED/NUMBERED RELEASES AND ALIKE. THE COLLECTION ALSO FEATURES A SMALL NUMBER OF OTHER GENRES, SUCH AS BLUES, R&B, FUNK AND LATIN AND A NEGLIGIBLE NUMBER OF ROCK TITLES..

THIS IS A FIERY, PASSIONATE MUSIC, PERPETUALY MODERN AND EVERY BIT AS TIMELESS AS THE DAY IT WAS BORN; A PERENNIAL QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY; AN ERUPTIVE, VOLCANIC STATEMENT - A SCREAM, REALLY - OF LIBERATION FROM ALL SOCIAL NORMS AND FORMS; IT IS TRULY A QUINTESSENTIAL LATE-20th CENTURY ART

THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN OBSESSIVELY BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS AND COMPULSIVELY PRESERVED FOR DECADES (SINCE THE MID-60s: THE OWNER BORE WITNESS TO THE MOST OF THE MODERN AMERICAN JAZZ HISTORY AND STORIES TO TELL). ASIDE FROM THE STILL SEALED ITEMS (YES, THERE WILL BE SOME), ALMOST 95% OF ALL ITEMS FALL INTO THE STRONG NEAR MINT TO UNPLAYED RANGE. MOST OF THE ITEMS FROM THIS COLLECTION WILL BE OF ARCHIVAL GRADE AND YOUR FINAL UPGRADES

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·      CONDITION:

·      THE RECORD

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(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                          THE COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2

-       Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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