African Dawn - Original 1983 German Enja label 8-track LP

Scarce original 1983 German Enja label 8-track LP - Abdullah Ibrahims tribute album to some his musical heroes - Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane - also including 5 of South African born pianist own colourful compositions.

Vinyl has the generic yellow and black printed company labels with upper company name-logo - held in a fully laminated picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyls and Labels)/VG++ (Cover):
Vinyl is wonderfully shiny and has an extremely light degree of sleeve wear only. Labels are perfect and vinyl is overall easily graded close to perfect.

Cover has allmost no signs of handling - touch of edge wrinkling, a 1 or 2 mm rip in the surface cover from mid-lower back opening and lower opening corner wear - all barely noticeable defects - cover is also also easily graded near mint - a very nice copy.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Blues For A Hip King - 5:43
2. Sunshine of your Smile - 3:25
3. African Dawn - 6:27
4. African Piano - 6:42

Side 2:
1. 'Round Midnight (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) - 5:26
2. Just You, Just Me (Greer, Klages) - 3:11
3. Blue Monk (Monk) - 4:17
4. For Coltrane - 7:19

Credits
Dollar Brand - Piano

Technical Credits:
Horst Weber, Matthias Winckelmann - Production
Carlos Albrecht - Recording Engineer


Artwork:
Elisabeth Winckelmann - Album Design
Guiseppe Pino - Back Cover Photography
Franz Schauer - Front Cover Photography