BILL EVANS Interplay LP RIVERSIDE RM445 US '62 DG MONO COVR GD/VINYL GOOD+ Phill

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BILL EVANS Interplay LP RIVERSIDE RM445 US '62 DG MONO COVR GD/VINYL GOOD+ Philly Joe Jones Jim Hall

Artist:

Bill Evans

Title:

Interplay

Modified Item:

No

Catalog #:

RM 445

Country/Region of Manufacture:

United States

Record Label:

Riverside Records

Custom Bundle:

No

Release Year:

1962

Style:

Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bebop

Edition:

First Pressing

Duration:

LP

Genre:

Jazz

Record Grading:

GOOD+/GOOD

Sleeve Grading:

Good (G)

Speed:

33RPM

Special Attributes:

Original Pressing, Deep Groove, Mono

Record Size:

12"

Artist: Bill Evans
Title: Interplay
Label: Riverside Records RM 445
Release: US 1962
Format: Vinyl Record 12" LP 33 RPM
Genre: Jazz Post Bop
Notes: DG MONO

Record Grading: DEEP GROOVE

Side 1:  GOOD+  NEEDLE MARKS AT 12 AND 6 O’CLOCK. LOTS OF NAIL SCUFFS NEAR 7 O’CLOCK.

Side B: GOOD  NAIL MARKS AT 3, 6, AND 9 O’CLOCK.  

Sleeve Grading: GOOD – WATER DAMAGE ON FRONT AND REAR. SPLIT ALONG SPINE AND HALF OF TOP. FLAKING ON BOTTOM.

Bill Evans, outside his usual trio format, with the excellent Jim Hall and Freddie Hubbard together as the Bill Evans Quintet. Evans and Hall went on to record the exquisite “Undercurrent” together, with more of that telepathic communication reminiscent of Evans and LaFaro.

Vinyl:  Riverside RM445 US mono press

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout: MM RM-445A(M)
• Matrix / Runout: MM RM-445B(M)

There was a post on the US Jazz Collector site at which the quality of pressing in different countries came into question. There seemed a tone from the American posters that the US originals were unquestionably best, or at least that is how I read it. You have

Deep grooved US Riverside label, hand-etched matrix number typical of US Riverside pressings

Circle containing letter “M” after the catalogue number – engineer or pressing plant possibly.

Serrated edge! (click to view 1600px full screen)

Tracklist

You And The Night And The Music

7:04

When You Wish Upon A Star

5:42

I'll Never Smile Again

6:31

Interplay

8:11

You Go To My Head

5:02

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

6:24

RIVERSIDE was established in 1953 by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer. It started as a reiusse label for early jazz. In 1954, beginning with two 10" LPs by Randy Weston, the company begun recording modern jazz.

Riverside took off for real street credibillity in 1955 by signing Thelonious Monk, and became, after Blue Note and Prestige, the most important jazz label of the era.

Almost all Riverside's new jazz were produced by Orrin Keepnews. Bill Grauer directed the company's sales and business operations. The company established the subsidary labels Judson in late 1950s and Jazzland in 1960.

PAUL BACON designed a large number of covers for Riverside in the 1950s. He had started as designer at Blue Note and went to Riverside as art director in 1954.

Another designer at Riverside was Ken Deardoff. Often hired photographers were Paul Weller and Donald Silverstein, but Riverside also used pictures from William Claxton, Burt Goldblatt and Bob Parent among others.

Riverside issued around 120 LPs in the Archives series (traditionl jazz), of which about the half where 10". In the Contemporary series about 300 12" LPs were issued between 1955 and 1964.

Bill Grauer died in 1963, and the company went bankrupt the following year.

Paul Bacon, who in total made around 2000 covers for Blue Note, Riverside and other labels, turned to the book world in the 1960s. He designed book covers for famous writers such as Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Philip Roth.