MILES DAVIS “Friday Night Blackhawk” jazz LP COL 6-eye DG orig 1A/1G Mobley HEAR

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Artist:  MILES DAVIS 

Title:   “In Person Friday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco Vol. 1”

Label:   COLUMBIA ~ CS 8469.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. Label is red with black text, with “6-eye” logo design.   

Year:  1961

Personnel:

Miles Davis, trumpet

Hank Mobley, tenor sax

Wynton Kelly – piano

Paul Chambers – bass

Jimmy Cobb - drums

Matrix numbers: 

XSM53550-1A

XSM53551-1G

Condition: 

DISC:  EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or issues.  Sounds gorgeous with superb fidelity as you can hear in the accompanying sound clip from this actual LP (no modifications).  Labels are clean. 

This outstanding LP is one that you will never need to upgrade, and is fully guaranteed to please.      

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT.  Front artwork is clean and bright, with a few slight traces of ring wear.  Nice seams and spine; top seam has a small, but noticeable “dent” where it was bumped; not serious and no splits.  Bottom corner tips have been lightly bumped.  Reverse has some yellowing along the top and bottom.  No writing, stickers or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket to accompany the superb disc.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Walkin’
• Bye Bye Blackbird

Side Two:

• All of You
• No Blues
• Bye Bye
• Love, I’ve Found You

Review:

“The first of two sets recorded during a weekend in 1961 features the Miles Davis Quintet at a period of time when Hank Mobley was on tenor and the rhythm section was comprised of pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb. What is most remarkable is the way Kelly fits into this particular blend of the Miles band. Kelly's interplay with Chambers is especially brilliant, because his sense of blues phrasing inside counterpoint harmony is edgy and large, with left-hand chords in the middle register rather than sharp right-hand runs to accentuate choruses. Davis himself has never played with more intensity and muscularity on record than he does here. He is absolutely fierce, both on the Friday night and Saturday night sets. Kelly plays more like a drummer than a pianist, using gorgeously percussive left-hand comps and fills to add bottom to the front line's solos. Mobley displays his bebop rather than hard bop and groove sides here, and reveals his intricate knowledge of the bop phraseology; he sounds free of the baggage and responsibility that he replaced John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. His solos on "If I Were a Bell" and "No Blues" are simply revelatory. This is an underappreciated group because of its relatively short life, but as evidenced here, the bandmembers swung fast and hard and never looked back. Hearing a dropped bassline, an out-of-time cymbal flourish, and a shortened series of phrases by Miles because he miscounted -- you guess the track -- adds to the charm of this being recorded as it was, without any cleanup. It is difficult to recommend this set over Saturday Night or vice versa; Miles fans will need both to fully appreciate how special this engagement with this particular band was.”

(courtesy Stephen Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)

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