MILES DAVIS VOL. 1 VOGUE UK LDE 028 10” LP DG MINT

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MILES DAVIS VOL. 1 VOGUE UK BLUE NOTE LDE 028 10” LP. FIRST ISSUE IN UK OF BLUE NOTE 10” LP BLP 5013. SUPER THICK VINYL, FLAT EDGE, DEEP GROOVE, STUNNING MINT CONDITION VINYL AND COVER WHICH ARE MIRROR-LIKE. LOOKS TO HAVE BEEN HARDLY PLAYED OR HANDLED IN OVER 50 YEARS SINCE FIRST BEING PRESSED. AMAZING RICH FIDELITY AND CLARITY. ALT. ARTWORK IS A COLLAGE OF PHOTOS BY FRANCIS WOLFF ON THE FRONT AND BACK. VERY RARE! A CORNERSTONE OF MODERN JAZZ. ALSO HISTORIC AS THIS WAS THE DEBUT OF JACKIE McLEAN - AS HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON AN LP (HE IS ALSO FEATURED ON THE COVER ART PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE WHICH WAS ONLY ON THIS EDITION OF THE LP - HE WOULD NOT BE SHOWN ON AN ALBUM COVER AGAIN UNTIL 1956!)

PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE EUROPEAN MODERN JAZZ FIRST ISSUES.

*NOTE: I WILL BE LISTING A LARGE COLLECTION OF THESE FIRST ISSUE EUROPEAN MODERN JAZZ 10”, 12”, EP’S, AND 78 SETS. IN ALL CASES THEY WERE ISSUED IN EUROPE DURING THE SAME PERIOD AS THE AMERICAN PRESSING IN THE USA. ALFRED LION HAD AN ARRANGEMENT WITH FRENCH AND UK VOGUE TO TRADE MASTERS OF EUROPEAN JAZZ RECORDINGS FOR RELEASE ON BLUE NOTE IN THE USA, AND FOR AMERICAN BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS TO BE RELEASED ON THE EU VOGUE AND SWING LABEL THROUGHOUT THE 10” PERIOD. BOB WEINSTOCK OF PRESTIGE, AND MANY OTHER US JAZZ LABELS ALSO MADE THE SAME ARRANGEMENT, HOWEVER ALFRED LION STOPPED IT BEFORE THE 12” BLUE NOTE’S STARTED. THE FIDELITY AND PRESSING QUALITY OF THESE EU DEEP GROOVE FIRST ISSUES IS AMAZING, IN SOME CASES THEY SOUND MUCH BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN ISSUES (ESP. IN THE CASE OF PRESTIGE & DEBUT 10” ISSUES). THE ALTERNATE COVER ART IS ALSO OF SPECIAL HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE COLLECTOR OF MODERN JAZZ AS IT IS CREATIVE, DRAMATIC, AND OFTEN USES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED PICTURES AND INNOVATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN. ALSO, THIS COLLECTION OF EU DEEP GROOVES ARE IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION (SAD TO SAY THE EUROPEANS FOR THE MOST PART SEEM TO HAVE TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THEIR LP’S THAN FELLOW AMERICAN COLECTORS OF THE PERIOD). THESE ORIGINAL LP’S WERE NOT PRESSED IN SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS DURING THE 1950’S (SAME AS CAN BE SAID OF THE MAJOR INDEPENDENT JAZZ LABELS IN THE USA) SO THEY ARE IN FACT OFTEN MUCH HARDER TO FIND THAN THE SAME USA PRESSED FIRST ISSUE. THESE EU DEEP GROOVES ARE IN EVERY CASE – AUDIOPHILE PRESSINGS, MADE OF VERY THICK PURE VIRGIN VINYL, WITH A VERY STRONG DEEP GROOVE IMPRESSION. I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WRITE THIS NOTE THANKS TO MANY YEARS OF COMMUNICATION WITH DISTRIBUTORS, AND COLLECTORS FROM EUROPE DURING THE PERIOD, AS WELL AS CONTEMPORARY MAJOR COLLECTORS AND JAZZ MUSIC HISTORIANS. I HOPE THIS INFORMATION WAS OF ASSISTANCE IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THESE LP’S.

OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, DOWNBEAT 2003 WILL BE LISTING A MAJOR COLLECTION OF VERY RARE VINTAGE JAZZ LPS, 78S, EPS, ETC. FROM A MAJOR COLLECTION ACQUIRED OVER 30+ YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL COLLECTING. SOME OF THE RAREST LPS OF BOP AND MODERN JAZZ WILL BE OFFERED, FROM ALL MAJOR LABELS INCULUDING BLUE NOTE, PRESTIGE, SAVOY, DIAL, ROOST, PACIFIC JAZZ, DEBUT, VOGUE, TO NAME A FEW. THE PIECES IN MOST CASES ARE IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION AND PRESERVATION. SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY! PLEASE SEE MY ‘ME’ FOR ALL STRICT GRADING, SHIPPING AND PAYMENT TERMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.