John Coltrane Lush Life Prestige 7188 DG RVG Mono Original

$

145

This week were are auctioning records from a fabulous collection we recently bought that belonged to a close and dear friend of mine. Most of the records and covers are very clean! This is the first wave which will have a lot of the heavy hitters, including Lee Morgan's Candy, Tina Brooks - True Blue, Hank Mobley 1560 and many others. Definitely check out our other listings. As usual, bidding begins at $9.99 with NO RESERVE!

Coltrane, John Lush Life

Media: LP
Condition: EX+/EX-
Cover Condition: EX+
Label: Prestige
Reference Number : 7188
Country: US
Date: 1960

Original mono pressing with yellow label, Bergenfield NJ address on center label and RVG in dead wax. Record has a few light surface marks. Side A plays very quietly with only an occasional light tick. No clicks or pops. Side B has surface noise and a number of light ticks at the beginning of the 1st track, including 1 pop about 2 minutes in. The noise lightens up but is still present up until Donald Byrd's solo and then plays quietly for the rest of the tune. The last tune has repetitive light click for 12 revolutions. No groove distortion and the music dominates. Cover has very light shelf wear on the glossy front cover and is overall near mint. This record has been professionally cleaned on a Keith Monks Record Cleaning Machine and stored in an audiophile quality sleeve. Includes original Prestige paper sleeve.

Side A features Coltrane with Earl May and Arthur Taylor playing Like Someone In Love, I Love You and Trane's Slow Blues. Side B has Coltrane with Donald Byrd, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and either Louis Hayes or Al Heath and they play Lush Life and I Hear A Rhapsody.

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Mint is only used for sealed records or records that we are certain have never been played.

NM or Near Mint is for the most part as good as it gets! No marks and will play clean with no noise unless inherent in the pressing.

EX+ Will generally have minor flaws like sleeve scuffs, but will overall be near mint.

EX or Excellent will have light surface marks and some light background noise in spots and/or a couple light clicks or ticks.

EX- Overall an Excellent copy with light surface marks, but with something that distracts, like a small scratch that makes a few pops or a few light repetitive clicks.

VG+ Consistent background noise or a few pops. No skips or sticking. Still a playable copy.

VG will have problems. Noise will dominate. May have quite a few pops and possibly a quick skip. Groove distortion possible.

VG- Will probably have a skip or two and will be noisy throughout.

G = Our lowest grade and is actually a poor record.

Cover grading -

Mint = perfect!

NM = Damn near perfect, at most a minor corner impact.

EX+ = Overall near mint but with up to 3 minor flaws such as a minor corner impact, small amount of writing like a name or date or less than 1/2 inch split or very slight shelf wear.

EX = May have one split up to 3 inches, light shelf wear, corner impact up to 1/2 inch or light shelf wear.

EX- Splits up to 3 inches or one split up to 5 inches, light to moderate shelf wear or ring wear.

VG+ = Possible full length split on one seam, moderate shelf wear but still holding together plus other flaws.

VG = splits, wear, a filler cover.

VG- or below = rough! All cover flaws will be well described.

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