Pyramid - Original 1960 Danish Atlantic label 6-track Test Pressing Mono LP

The Modern Jazz Quartet LP

55,00 €

Stock status: In stock
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Rare original 1960 Danish Atlantic label 6-track test pressing Mono LP - of New York, NY, based jazz Quartets iconic American songwriter's sixth studio album.

Vinyl has generic plain white testpressing labels - no info added. This copy was bought by a Metronome label employee - autehnticity is beyond question. Vinyl has been kept in a plain white sleeve.

Vinyl has machine stamped (ms) and hand etched (he) matrix information:
Side 1: 11613-A AT (he) EX (ms)
Side 2: 11614-A AT (he) EX (ms)

Condition: VG+ (Vinyl and Labels)/Generic:
Vinyl is rigid and heavy - has a few light and insudible surface mark - one label has a couple of light and superficial slightly scattered spindletraces - the other a single shortand simple one. Vinyl is straighht VG+. this does not look like a record played frequently, just a few times - without being handled to carefully. 

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Vendome (John Lewis) 2:30
2. Pyramid (Blues for Junior) (Ray Brown) 10:46
3. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) 5:02

Side 2:
1. Django (John Lewis) 4:36
2. How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) 6:15
3. Romaine (Jim Hall) 7:28

Recorded August 22 & 25, 1959, December 21, 1959, January 15, 1960 at Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts and Capitol Studios, New York City

Credits:
Milt Jackson - vibraphone
John Lewis - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Connie Kay - drums

Technical Credits:
Nesuhi Ertegun - Production
Earle Brown, Johnny Cue, Tom Dowd - Engineers
Nesuhi Ertegun - Supervision

Artwork:
Susanne Schapowalow - MJQ Photography

Artist The Modern Jazz Quartet
Media LP
Katalog nummer 1325
Land Denmark
Label Atlantic
Udgivelsesår 1960
Grading VG+ (Vinyl and Labels)/Generic
Genre Jazz
Sub Genre 1 Cool Jazz
Sub Genre 2 Bop
Condition Used