BILL EVANS TRIO"EXPLORATIONS"1961RIVERSIDE MONO NR.MINT

	£		87
	$		115

A FANTASTIC UK PRESSED JAZZ  LP IN THE VERY FINEST OF CONDITIONS!!

THE BILL EVANS TRIO "EXPORATIONS"

AN ALL TIME CLASSIC RIVERSIDE LABEL LP AND JUST ABOUT PERFECT IN EVERY WAY!

ONE OF THE BEST JAZZ ALBUMS EVER!!!!!

ALONGSIDE THE TRULY AMAZING PIANO OF BILL EVANS ARE SCOTT LA FARO (BASS)+PAUL MOTIAN (DRUMS) 

THIS IS AN ORIGINAL 1961 MONO PHILIPS PRESSED RIVERSIDE LABEL LP WITH VERY THICK VINYL:

12-351+ A/B MATRIXES-EARLIEST POSSIBLE!

1ST TIME ISSUE IN THE UK!! CLEAN LABELS!! 

THE RECORD IS IN VERY NEAR MINT CONDITION!

I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE MAJORITY WOULD STATE MINT BUT IN MY OPINION MINT DOES NOT EXIST UNLESS YOU HAVE A SEALED ITEM BUT THIS COPY WILL BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IMPROVE UPON SO DO NOT MISS OUT!

MUSICALLY,BILL EVANS WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENCIAL PIANISTS AND WITH A VARIETY OF MOODS AND PHRASING,HE IS RIGHTLY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE VERY BEST JAZZ MUSICIANS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

IF YOU ONLY OWN A HANDFUL OF JAZZ LPs,THIS IS ONE TO CONSIDER! 

THE TRACKS WERE RECORDED IN NEW YORK IN 1961.

LOVELY,CLEAR NATURAL MONO SOUND WITH HEAPS OF BASS.

IN DEPTH SLEEVE NOTES.  

THE FIRST DECENT COPY TO BE SEEN ON EBAY OR ANYWHERE IN YEARS IN MONO FROM A RELIABLE SELLER,JAZZ FAN AND LONG TERM COLLECTOR!

 FROM THE COLLECTION OF FORMER ESQUIRE RECORDS AND MAJOR JAZZ COLLECTOR AND MUSICIAN,THE LATE PETER NEWBROOK WHO PRESERVED HIS RECORDS USING TOP OF THE RANGE EQUIPMENT. 

MANY SHOPS WOULD ONLY GET THESE LPs TO SPECIAL ORDER AND IT MUST HAVE BEEN DELETED WITHIN A YEAR DUE TO POOR SALES!!!

 THE PRINT RUN FOR THESE LPs WOULD BE A FEW THOUSAND AT THE VERY MOST AND OF COURSE HOW MANY SURVIVE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION 49 YEARS LATER??

SUPERB EXAMPLE HOUSED IN A CLEAN AND BRIGHT LAMINATED FRONT COVER!

PLEASE STUDY BOTH PHOTOS SHOWING THE FRONT AND THE BACK OF THE COVER(MOST DEALERS ONLY SHOW THE FRONTS!)AND NOTICE THE BRIGHTNESS,STAIN FREE AND TOTALLY IMMACULATE CONDITION OF THE COVER!

TRULY BREATHTAKING QUALITY THAT WILL CAREFULLY PACKED INCLUDING A SOFT PVC COVER TO ENSURE PROTECTION IN THE POST! 

49 YEARS OLD AND LOOKING AS IF IT HAS JUST COME OFF THE FACTORY PRODUCTION LINE!

AN ALBUM THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN RARE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!

49 YEARS LATER IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AS GOOD AS THIS ONE!

THE MAJORITY WERE PLAYED ON RADIOGRAMS,PORTABLE PLAYERS AND EVEN THE MOST CAREFUL FANS WOULD HAVE PLAYED IT DOZENS OF TIMES,THIS COPY HAS HAD HARDLY ANY PLAYS AT ALL!

MANY COPIES WERE PLAYED AND RUINED IN ERROR ON HEAVYWEIGHT  GEAR!

THIS ONE HAS BARELY PLAYED WITH GLEAMING SURFACES,NO SURFACE MARKS AND HARDLY ANY SURFACE NOISE WHATSOEVER!  

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN UPGRADER/ULTIMATE COPY -

THIS COULD BE THE ONE FOR YOU!

IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER DELIGHT FROM ONE OF THE UKs LEADING RECORD  EXPERTS/DEALERS.

THIS 1961 LP HAS INSPIRING JAZZ MUSIC THAT YOU WILL WANT TO ENJOY AGAIN AND AGAIN!

THE TRACKS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

ISRAEL

HAUNTED HEART

BEAUTIFUL LOVE

ELSA

NARDIS

HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN

I WISH I KNEW

SWEET AND LOVELY

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A JAZZ  COLLECTORS DREAM-PLEASE READ ON FOR IN DEPTH DETAILS!!

I HAVE NOT FOUND SUCH BREATHTAKING QUALITY FOR AN  LP OF THIS VINTAGE FOR QUITE SOMETIME.THEY ARE SIMPLY NOT TURNING UP AS FREQUENTLY AS THEY DID,EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO.MOST HAVE NOW LEFT THE UK FOR THE COLLECTIONS OF JAPAN,AMERICA AND THE FAR EAST NEVER TO RETURN TO THE SELLING MARKET.

THIS MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET SUCH A MUSICALLY BRILLIANT LP LIKE THIS ONE IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!

PLEASE LOOK AT THE PHOTO OF THE BRIGHTNESS AND SHARPNESS OF THE LABELS AND THE COVER!

NO WRITING,NO REPAIRS,NO RIPS,NO SPLITS,NO SPILLAGES,NO STAINS,NO LAMINATION PEELING,NOT EVEN ANY ULTRA TINY EDGE CREASES.  

DON'T FORGET JUST HOW EXPENSIVE LPs WERE FOR THE AVERAGE FAN OF THE 1960s.AN LP WAS USUALLY A CAREFULLY CONSIDERED PURCHASE OVER WEEKS AND EVEN MONTHS,WHICH EXPLAINS WHY SO FEW TURN UP.

THOSE THAT DID BUY THEM WERE OFTEN SCARED OF HAVING THEM STOLEN OR BORROWED WITHOUT RETURN AND WOULD WRITE NAMES ON THE COVER-JUST COMPARE WITH ANY OTHER SIMILAR LPs ON EBAY.THE MAJORITY HAVE WRITING,SELLOTAPE REPAIR OR WORSE STILL DRAWINGS AND DOODLES ADDED.

THIS IS ABOUT THE BEST I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS AND YEARS.

CHECK OUT YOUR COPY-CAN YOU REALLY PUT UP WITH THE ONE YOU HAVE GOT AND WILL YOU REGRET IT LATER?

IF NOTHING ELSE THIS IS A FANTASTIC INVESTMENT!

I AM SURE TO REGRET NOT KEEPING IT BUT THAT'S LIFE!  THE HOUSE IS FULL AS IT IS! 

THE PREVIOUS OWNER  HAD THE BENEFIT OF GETTING THE BEST AND INDEED IT IS HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS RECORD TO APPEAR ON EBAY FOR YEARS DIRECT FROM SOMEONE WHO WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME! 

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH ME ON EBAY SINCE 2002 AND INDEED ELSEWHERE BEFORE SINCE 1986, WILL PROBABLY KNOW I HAVE BEEN A RESPECTED  MUSIC EXPERT AND COLLECTOR FOR MANY YEARS CALLED UPON BY RADIO,TV AND PRICE GUIDES FOR MY ADVICE AND KNOWLEDGE.

WHILST I AM IN THE BUSINESS TO SELL, I CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THE ITEMS I AM SELLING.

IN A COMPETITIVE MARKET SUCH AS EBAY, THIS IS GETTING RARE SO YOU CAN BID WITH COMPLETE CONFIDENCE!

A VERY NICE THICK PRESSING!  

MOST COPIES THAT SURVIVE ARE IN POOR CONDITION-THIS ONE IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION WITH HARDLY ANY SURFACE NOISE,EVEN AT HIGH VOLUME WITH THE TREBLE FULL ON TO"CATCH"ANY GROOVE WEAR AND THAT IS BEING STRICT! 

NO STICKS!/NO JUMPS!/NO CLICKS!/NO SWISHES!/NO DISTORTION!

A COPY THAT HAS BEEN PLAYED ONLY A FEW TIMES HAVING SPOKEN AT LENGTH TO THE PREVIOUS OWNERS SON!!!!

PROBABLY HALF A DOZEN OR SO AT THE MOST! 

Just how many were preserved like this one ??!!!!!!  

The SOLID MONO mixes are Superb and full of bass, with a natural warmth from those LP days OF 49 YEARS AGO!

In the EARLY 1960s, many were using terrible old and heavy equipment and using worn styli or nasty autochangers that would scuff the discs forever in seconds at the time not aware that years later even the slightest damage would be evident on more sophisticated audio.

The EARLY 1960s equipment was quite often a bit basic and it was suggested to play LPs at between 5 and 8 grammes, which of course after a few plays would produce on later plays that nasty"film of fizzy distortion"so often IGNORED by sellers and in MY LISTENING GRADING is ALWAYS LISTENED OUT FOR WITH THE TREBLE FULL ON AND PLAYED TO ENSURE THE BEST AND MOST ACURATE GRADING!!!! 

 To find immaculate copies all these years later is getting almost impossible!FACT!

THEY ARE SIMPLY DRYING UP! 

These mixes are far punchier but are rather flat on the CDs that have come out!

Vinyl is still the best way to hear this TOP JAZZ music and always will be!  

GREAT WIDE RANGE SOUND WITH GREAT BASS!

I TEST ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITHOUT FILTERING OR A MONO SWITCH.

There is NO spindle wear.  

Look elsewhere on ebay and you MIGHT see other copies-Look closer and you will find they are often reissues,inferior USA issues or lower grade copies with all manner of faults.

MOST RECORDS ON EBAY ARE IN DIABOLICAL, BAD CONDITIONS ATTEMPTED TO BE  SOLD BY PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO GRADE OR BOTHER TO ACTUALLY PLAY THEM FOR AN ACURATE DESCRIPTION!

This is A POSSIBLE UPGRADER COPY-EXAMINE YOURS IF YOU HAVE ONE AT ALL AND IT MAY NOT BE AS GOOD AS YOU THINK!  

THE LP ITSELF AS USUAL WILL BE REMOVED FROM IT'S COVER BEFORE SENDING!   

REMEMBER I AM GRADING STRICTLY! PLEASE STUDY THE PHOTO! 

As both a collector and dealer,I AM VERY STRICT ON GRADING but DO CHECKOUT MY FEEDBACK FOR GRADING PROOF!!!!

Realistic  £30 STARTING price with no annoying reserve. BUY IT NOW OFFERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

HARDLY ANY  LPs OF THIS VINTAGE SELL FOR LESS AND I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW GOOD THEY ARE.DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF THERE IS FRANTIC BIDDING AT THE LAST MINUTE.

DON'T LEAVE IT AND REGRET IT LATER!!!!!!!!!!!THIS MAY NOT BE REPEATED FOR A LONG TIME! 

THIS IS A GREAT CHANCE TO OWN A SUPER AND RARE LP. A GREAT INVESTMENT! 

Postage is FREE INCLUDING RECORDED DELIVERY TO THE UK WITH SOLID PACKING FAR BETTER THAN THE MAJORITY OF SELLERS-LOOK AT THE FEEDBACK FOR PROOF! YOU WILL GET IT IN FINE SHAPE!!

Outside UK extra depending on destination.£5 EUROPE. REST OF THE WORLD £8. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO SEVERAL ITEMS OVERSEAS BEING"LOST", IF THE OPTION TO SEND INSURED IS REFUSED THEN I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST ITEMS. I DO NOT DRAMATICALLY INCREASE POSTAGE ON SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT.Paypal or cheque within 7 days please.

CHEQUE WILL NEED TIME TO CLEAR BEFORE DELIVERY. 

SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES FOR SEVERAL ITEMS BOUGHT

DO NOT BID UNLESS YOU INTEND TO PAY.Feedback always left. BE AWARE!!!! NON PAYERS AND TIMEWASTERS WILL BE DEALT WITH AND REPORTED TO EBAY AS WELL AS CIRCULATED VERBALLY AND BY EMAIL TO MY MANY DEALER AND COLLECTOR FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

Checkout my feedback of OVER 11,000 comments of my standards and service many from some of the world's most respected collectors and dealers. BUY with confidence! Always adding quality Records, cd's and related items to ebay several times a week. Customers from all over the world regard my  ebay selections as the #1 for QUALITY,VARIETY AND SERVICE.

I HAVE BEEN A DEALER SINCE 1986 WITH OVER 8 YEARS ON EBAY.

I ACTUALLY LISTEN TO MY ITEMS ON GOOD QUALITY EQUIPMENT, USUALLY TWICE TO ENSURE THE VERY BEST POSSIBLE AND ACURATE GRADE-I WANT LONG TERM REGULAR CUSTOMERS WHO WANT TO RETURN TO BUY FROM ME WITH FAITH AND TRUST.

LOOK AT MY FEEDBACK AND SEE WELL KNOWN RESPECTED COLLECTORS AND DEALERS WHO BUY FROM ME OVER AND OVER-NOTE WHAT THEY SAY-PAGE AFTER PAGE OF GLOWING STATEMENTS! 

UK Customers are very welcome to collect ebay winnings  by prior email arrangement.OVER 8 YEARS ON EBAY and many more before as a keen collector! Thanks for looking and good luck.

OTHER STYLES OF MUSIC ON EBAY FROM ME-SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE-LOOK NO FURTHER!!!!!

DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS OPPORTUNITY,MAYBE FOR THE LAST TIME FOR THIS LP IN THIS AMAZINGLY TIP-TOP CONDITION!

I HAVE MENTIONED EVERYTHING BUT IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK.

MANY MORE FANTASTIC LPs TO COME IN FUTURE WEEKS FROM THIS COLLECTION FROM THE SAME ERA OF THE 1960s! KEEP WATCHING!

 DON'T LEAVE YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN!

THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET SUCH A WONDERFUL LP LIKE THIS ONE ON IT'S EARLIEST MONO EDITION!

GOOD LUCK AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.

SOME MORE RARELY SEEN JAZZ LPs ENDING FROM ME SHORTLY BEFORE AND AFTER THIS ONE ENDS,ALL IN THE VERY FINEST OF CONDITIONS AND QUITE PROBABLY THE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO OWN SUCH RECORDS IN THE VERY BEST CONDITIONS!