TOMMY FLANAGAN "OVERSEAS" AP, LE, NE (#66), SO, RVG, 180G, NEW/SEALED
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TOMMY FLANAGAN "OVERSEAS"
ULTIMATE AUDIOPHILE PRESTIGE REISSUES FROM ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS. SOME OF THE MOST COLLECTIBLE, RAREST AND BEST SOUNDING RUDY VAN GELDER RECORDINGS EVER MADE. ALL CUT FROM THE ANALOG ORIGINAL MONO MASTER TAPES BY KEVIN GRAY. PRESSED ON 180 GRAM VINYL AT STATE-OF-THE-ART PLANT QUALITY RECORD PRESSINGS AND PLATED BY GARY SALSTROM.
"WHEN JAY JAY JOHNSON TOURED SWEDEN IN THE SUMMER OF 1957, HIS PIANIST, TOMMY FLANAGAN, DREW ACCOLADES. FLANAGAN'S PLAYING ON MILES DAVIS' TUNES SUCH AS "VIERD BLUES", AND "IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY" HAD MADE HIPPER SWEDES ALREADY AWARE OF HIS ABILITIES."
"AMONG THESE WERE EXECUTIVES FOR METRONOME RECORDS, AND THE RESULT WAS FLANAGAN'S FIRST RECODING DATE UNDER HIS OWN NAME, IN STOCKHOLM ON AUGUST 15, 1957. FLANAGAN LATER IN HIS CAREER BECAME KNOWN AS THE "JAZZ POET", AN ARTIST WHOSE CONSUMMATE LYRICISM AND REMARKABLY SMOOTH SWING FEEL HAVE LONG CAPTIVATED LISTENERS. HAPPILY, THE COMPLEX, PLIANT LINES, THE RHYTHMIC SNAP, AND THAT GREAT TASTE IN TUNES WERE ALREADY IN PLACE WHEN THE DETROIT-BORN, BUD POWELL-INFLUENCED FLANAGAN ARRIVED IN NEW YORK IN THE LATE 1950'S. NO WONDER HE SOON PLAYED AND/OR RECORDED WITH MILES DFAVIS, SONNY ROLLINS, J.J. JOHNSON, AND OTHERS."
"OVERSEAS IS VERY WELL RECORDED AND THE TRIO IS WELL DEFINED IN A SPACE WITH STEREO-LIKE WIDTH AND DEPTH. KEVIN GRAY'S REMASTERING OF THE MONO LP IS EXCEPTIONAL." DENNIS D. DAVIS, HI-FI+, ISSUE 95"
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