MILES DAVIS "On The Corner" 1972 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT

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  MILES DAVIS "On The Corner" 1972 UK CBS 1st PRESS MINT CENTRE-LOADING GF, SUPERB COPY OF MILES' MASTERPIECE
MILES DAVIS
On The Corner

ORIGINAL, AND PRETTY SCARCE UK CBS (S 65246) FIRST PRESSING (October 1972) OF MILES DAVIS' STUNNING MASTERPIECE "On The Corner" - MUCH DERIDED UPON RELEASE BUT NOW REGARDED AS AN IMPRESSIVE AND SIGNIFICANT WORK

THIS COPY IS IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION AND HAS POSSIBLY ONLY EVER BEEN PLAYED A HANDFUL OF TIMES AT MOST
THE FIRST ISSUE ORANGE CBS LABELS ARE CLEAN AND BRIGHT WITH JUST A (VERY) FEW LIGHT SPINDLE TRACES, THE VINYL DELIVERS FLAWLESS, CRYSTAL CLEAR, SHARP AND CLEAN AUDIO THROUGHOUT AND THE CENTRE LOADING GATEFOLD COVER, PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.” IS CLEAN AND FRESH
THE SET COMES COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS COMPANY INNER SLEEVE (Issue 5 with blue printing)

THIS REALLY IS A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A STUNNING WORK - THE MORE TIMES I RETURN TO THIS LP THE MORE THERE IS TO FIND AND ALONG WITH 'TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON', PROBABLY MY FAVOURITE MILES ALBUM (although that's a tough call)
THIS MASTERPIECE RARELY TURNS UP FOR SALE - NEVER MIND AS A UK FIRST PRESS AND IN SUCH WONDERFUL CONDITION AND IS VERY, VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

MATRIX NUMBERS: S 65246 A1 / S 65246 B1

Could there be any more confrontational sound in Miles Davis' vast catalog than the distorted guitars and tinny double-timing drums reacting to a two-note bass riff funking it up on the first track from On the Corner?
Before the trumpet even enters the picture, the story has been broken off somewhere in the middle, with deep street music melding with a secret language held within the band and those who can actually hear this music -- certainly not the majority of Miles' fan base built up over the past 25 years. They reacted badly with total confusion as to what the hell the man was up to." Miles just shrugged and told them it wasn't personal, but they could take it that way if they wanted to, and he blew on his trumpet.
Here are killer groove riffs that barely hold on as bleating trumpet and soprano sax lines (courtesy of Dave Liebman on track one) interact with John McLaughlin's distortion-box frenzy. Michael Henderson's bass keeps the basic so basic it hypnotizes; keyboards slowly enter the picture, a pair of them handled by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, as well as Ivory Williams' synthesizer. Finally, Colin Walcott jumps in with an electric sitar and there are no less than five drummers -- three kits (Al Foster, Billy Hart, and Jack DeJohnette), a tabla player, and Mtume. It's a four-tune suite, "On the Corner" is, but the separations hardly matter, just the shifts in groove that alter the time/space continuum. After 20 minutes, the set feels over and a form of Miles' strange lyricism returns in "Black Satin." Though a tabla kicks the tune off, there's a recognizable eight-note melody that runs throughout.
Carlos Garnett and Bennie Maupin replace Liebman, Dave Creamer replaces McLaughlin (on Side Two) and the groove rides a bit easier -- except for those hand bells shimmering in the background off the beat just enough to make the squares crazy. The respite is short-lived, however. Davis and band move the music way over to the funk side of the street -- though the street funkers thought these cats were too weird with their stranded time signatures and modal fugues that begin and end nowhere and live for the way the riff breaks down into emptiness.
"One and One" begins the new tale, so jazz breaks down and gets polished off and resurrected as a far blacker, deeper-than-blue character in the form of "Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X," where guitars and horns careen off Henderson's cracking bass and Foster's skittering hi-hats. It may sound weird even today, but On the Corner is the most street record ever recorded by a jazz musician. And it still kicks.

Track Listing:
Side 1: On The Corner - New York Girl - Thinkin' One Thing And Doin' Another - Vote For Miles / Black Satin
Side 2: One And One / Helen Butte / Mr. Freedom X

LABELS: CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO writing and only a couple of (very) light spindle traces - BARELY PLAYED
VINYL Visual: The vinyl surfaces retain their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are practically UNMARKED (some light sleeve-removal type hairlines only which have NO audio consequence)
VINYL Audio: SUPERB - CRYSTAL CLEAR, RICH AND SHARP SOUND. On playback at a LOUD volume there are NO scratches, NO jumps/sticks, NO surface noise and NO clicks/pops. TREMENDOUS COPY OF A SENSATIONAL RECORD WHICH I CANNOT RECOMMEND HIGHLY ENOUGH and which plays to the highest standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion. Graded MINT for audio
SLEEVE: The centre-loading, matte gatefold cover is UNMARKED with UNRUBBED surfaces which retain their BRIGHT VIBRANT COLOUR on the outside and are CLEAN and WHITE on the inside. There are some light creases to the spine but nothing really - EXCELLENT+

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