HANK MOBLEY & LEE MORGAN Peckin` Time (Blue Note 1574) US 1st Press RVG Ear MINT

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HANK MOBLEY & LEE MORGAN Peckin` Time (Blue Note 1574) RARE US 1st Pressing RVG Ear MINT-
RARE US first pressing of the Hank Mobley & Lee Morgan album "Peckin` Time" on Blue Note Records (February 1958). 
"Peckin' Time, badged as a Hank Mobley-Lee Morgan joint effort, is really a Hank Mobley album; all the compositions (except for the Weil/Nash standard "Speak Low") are Hank Mobley originals. Not that Lee Morgan does not play with characteristic fire and clarity. But recognizing Hank Mobley as the main creative force here is yet another necessary step in his ongoing re-valuation.
The band - Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Charlie Persip (drums)- is stellar and delivers dynamic hard bop. The Wynton Kelly / Paul Chambers combination that powered Miles Davis' band is once again enabling and energizing. Hank Mobley plays with perhaps the greatest assurance of any point of his career, with long, beautifully crafted solos that match Lee Morgan's in their strength and inventiveness. 

The opening track, "High And Flighty", is very much in Jazz Messengers territory. "Speak Low" starts out as a latin-based vehicle for Lee Morgan's trumpet playing before morphing into a more straight ahead bop piece with fine soloing from Hank Mobley. The title track and "Stretchin' Out" are angular, offbeat blues-based bop of the kind that Hank Mobley was so adept at composing. The closing track,"Git-Go Blues", is a straightforward blues that offers plenty of soloing space for piano, sax and trumpet.

Overall, this is an album that it is easy to recommend. It is another asset in building a true picture of Hank Mobley as a great sax player and jazz composer." - 100greatestjazzalbums.blogspot.ch
GRADING:
MINT- COVER, in near-perfect condition. Please see photos for details.
- Slightly frayed corner at bottom right, as shown.
- Sticker residue and small rubber stamped "O" on back cover, at top right.
- Other than that, the cover is in amazing, practically pristine condition.
- Includes vintage stock inner sleeve.

EX+ RECORD that has seen only very minor play.
- Original very first US "deep groove" pressing record, with a weight of 187 grammes.
- Pristine vinyl on both sides, with perfect audio reproduction throughout.
- Minor background crackle in between tracks, as well as in some quiet passages.
- Two small thumbnail-type scuffs (in "Speak Low") cause two or three lightest "swishes".
- Other than that, no hairlines, scratches, scuffs or other visible signs of previous play.
- Original first-pressing Blue Note Records labels with "47 WEST 63rd - NYC" address and a few light spindle lines on each side.
- The matrix stamps in the run-off grooves read "BNLP-1574-A" and "BNLP-1574-B".
- The run-off grooves include the RVG stamp and the "Plastylite" Ear symbol on both sides.
- This record is fully certified to be a very first US pressing of "Peckin` Time", released in February 1958.
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