Alex Riel Trio - Original 1965 Danish Fona label 5-track Stereo 10"

Rare original 1965 Danish Fona label 5-track stereo 10" - superb Danish drummers debut as leader? sided by Montmartre rhythm section compadre bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and pianist Kenny Drew.

Alex Riel was known outside of Denmark for his collaborations with Sahib Shihab, Dexter Gordon, Jackie McLean and Ben Webster a.o.

Vinyl has the generic light blue rimmed top black and lower white company labels - housed in a fully laminated top and bottom flipback picture cover.

Condition: VG+ (Vinyl and Labels)/VG+(+) (Cover):
Vinyl is nice - has a few lines... all inaudible and ranging from extremely light to light. A single faint one on Side
3-4 very light to light ones on Side

Labels has a spiderweb of faint spindletraces - all only visible when vinyl is angled when held to a light source. Labels are graded close to near mint - vinyl overall conservatively VG+ leaning towards close to near mint/excellent.

Vinyl plays great though - straight and with hardly any crackling and no clicks or pops off course - just great playing, fine dynamics and volume - a playgrading would be near mint. .

Cover is superb - faint age discolouration - a couple of small and light wrinkles along opening and a minor lower spine corner dent... a marginal one to lower opening as well - very nice and graded close to near mint/excellent.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 Flamenco Sketches
2 Yesterdays

Side 2:
1 Django
2 Worksong
3 In A Way

Cover manufactured by Gerlach & Raffel

Credits:
Alex Riel - Drums
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Bass
Kenny Drew - Piano

Artwork:
Johannes Obel - Front cover painting (Rørelser)
Birger Jørgensen - Liner Notes