THAD JONES Orig. BLUE NOTE 1513 Lex DG RVG Ear Flat Edg

$

225

Up for auction is:

*****One of the Legendary Titles from the Rare 1500 Series of the Blue Note Catalogue*****

THAD JONES

"Detroit -- New York Junction"

Blue Note BLP 1513

• Thad Jones' First Blue Note Recording!
• Rare Original Early Blue Note 1500 Series Holy Grail!
• Thick Rigid Vinyl with Flat Edge!
• 767 Lexington Ave NYC Address on Both Labels!
• 767 Lexington Ave., New York 21 Address on Jacket!
• Recording by Rudy Van Gelder!
• "RVG" Etched and "Ear" Stamped in Dead Wax Both Sides!
• Deep Groove on Both Labels!
• Cover Design by Reid Miles
• Cover Photo by Francis Wolff
• Liner Notes by Leonard Feather

1956

• Thad Jones -- Trumpet
• Billy Mitchell -- Tenor Sax
• Kenny Burrell -- Guitar
• Tommy Flanagan -- Piano
• Oscar Pettiford -- Bass
• Shadow Wilson -- Drums

Tracks Side 1:

1. Blue Room
2. Tarriff
3. Little Girl Blue

Tracks Side 2:

1. Scratch
2. Zec

Grading:

Cover: VG+

Glossy; clean; great design; strong spine and upper seam; scotch tape on left and right corners of lower seam; writing on front upper right; small writing on back (initials in blue ink upper right, pencil notations next to tracks)

Vinyl: VG

Still retains much of its gloss, but has numerous scuffs &/or scratches; plays with some surface noise throughout, but still has that awesome Blue Note hard bop sound; no skips 

Clean; very minor spindle wear and marks; initials written in blue ink in the blue area on the bottom of both labels

All records are graded visually unless otherwise noted.  I try to grade conservatively, using Goldmine guidelines, in order to give the buyer the benefit of any doubt.  I try to list all significant defects.  To aid in the description, I take photos of all items at the time of listing.  Please email me with any questions. 

* A further note about my grading:  I rarely grade a previously owned record NM.  I do not use this grade unless the record is virtually flawless.  After NM, my highest grade is E, followed by VG+.  I do not use NM-, E-, VG++, or VG+++ or other so-called in-between grades.  VG+ should be very acceptable to most collectors.  I will only list a VG record if it is extremely rare and hard-to-find.

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A Little Background Information on the Blue Note 1500 Series:

A BLUENOTE LABELOGRAPHY

REPRINTED FROM?PRIMYL VINYL EXCHANGE NEWSLETTER, vol. 2, no. 6, Nov - Dec, 1997

Blue Note. Unquestionably, the most famous and most collectible jazz records, Blue Notes are the grail of jazz afficionados. What was remarkable about Blue Note is that from the dawn of the LP era through the mid-1960's, Blue Note released approximately 350 albums of consistently high quality, both musically and sonically, including some of the landmark albums of modern jazz. Blue Note releases defined at least two of the most creative schools in modern jazz, hard-bop through albums by Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Sonny Clark, Hank Mobley and others, and "Miles Davis modernism," as found on albums by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Williams, etc....

First, a little background. There were three series of Blue Note LP releases. The first is known as the "1200" series, which consists of 8 records by either Sidney Bechet or George Lewis, reissuing earlier 78 and 10 inch releases. The second, known as the "1500" series, commenced in 1955, with catalogue numbers starting at 1501, and running through 1600, released in 1958. The early releases in this series are reissues of earliier 10" releases primarily from the early 50's, including records by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Bud Powell and others....

Among "serious" Blue Note collectors, there are two sorts of records which are in highest demand - monos and "deep grooves." The former is self-explanatory; the latter are records in which there is a concentric groove in the label, about two-thirds of the way from the center hole....

1.?Original Pressings, Alfred Lion era. These may be discerned from the jacket by the catalogue number appearing on the back in large, bold block letters; the label is the classic Blue Note blue and white. Albums numbered 1200, and 1501 through 1543 say Blue Note Records 767 Lexington Ave NYC in script letters, written in an arc inside the (deep) groove along the top of the label....