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MONO – 2nd PRESSING

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

(very rare record! This was the only copy of it on E-Bay when listed)

Band/Artists: Lem Winchester, Benny Golson

Album Title: Winchester Special

Featuring: Lem Winchester, Benny Golson, Tommy Flanagan, Arthur Taylor, Wendell Marshall

Catalogue#: NJLP 8223

Year/Record Company: New Jazz/Prestige Records (1965)

1 LP – Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This mono LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: good+

Shine: a little

Scratches: several moderate scratches, several light & feather scratches as well

Label Wear: light (completely readable)

Labels: silver print on very dark navy blue labels with the Prestige “Trident” logo at the right: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: moderate

LP Sound: good+ (some pops, no skips or hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: moderate

Jacket Condition: good+ (glossy, completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: moderate (very worn, no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: light

Front Ring Wear: light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve: original plastic sleeve

Sleeve Wear: minimal

Cover: Esmond Edwards

Liner Notes: Ira Gitler

Winchester Special is an album by vibraphonist Lem Winchester with saxophonist Benny Golson recorded in 1959 and released on the New Jazz label. Scott Yanow of Allmusic states: "The music falls between bop and hard bop with consistently swinging solos that are generally fairly inventive. This was one of Winchester's three recordings for the New Jazz label; all are easily recommended to straightahead jazz fans". (source: Wikipedia)

SIDE 1

Down Fuzz 10:02

If I Were A Bell 4:02

Will You Still Be Mine? 7:00

SIDE 2

Mysticism 7:31

How Are Things In Glocca Morra? 4:11

The Dude 6:42

Lem Winchester (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 1961) was an American jazz vibraphone player. Formerly a police officer, Winchester pursued music as a hobby in Wilmington, Delaware. He turned to music full-time after an appearance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. He was soon working with some of the top names in jazz, making his debut recording with pianist Ramsey Lewis. Winchester recorded a handful of albums as a leader, and made sideman appearances with the likes of saxophonist Oliver Nelson, and organists Jack McDuff and Shirley Scott. Most of his recordings were with Prestige Records. Critic Scott Yanow has suggested that while Winchester's playing was strongly influenced by Milt Jackson, he "did not stick around long enough to carve out his own original voice" on the vibraphone. Winchester's career was cut short when he died in a handgun accident, aged 32. (source: Wikipedia)

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer re-formed the Jazztet in 1982.

In addition to "I Remember Clifford", many of Golson's compositions have become jazz standards including "Blues March", "Whisper Not", and "Killer Joe".

While in high school in Philadelphia, Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Rodney. After graduating from Howard University, Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson's rhythm and blues band; Tadd Dameron, whom Golson came to consider the most important influence on his writing, was Jackson's pianist at the time.

From 1953 to 1959, Golson played with Dameron's band and then with the bands of Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, with whom he recorded the classic Moanin' in 1958.

Golson was working with the Lionel Hampton band at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in 1956 when he learned that Clifford Brown, a noted and well-liked jazz trumpeter who had done a stint with him in Dameron's band, had died in a car accident. Golson was so moved by the event that he composed the threnody "I Remember Clifford", as a tribute to a fellow musician and friend.

In addition to "I Remember Clifford", many of Golson's other compositions have become jazz standards. Songs such as "Stablemates", "Killer Joe", "Whisper Not", "Along Came Betty", and "Are You Real?", have been performed and recorded numerous times by many musicians.

From 1959 to 1962, Golson co-led the Jazztet with Art Farmer. Golson then left jazz to concentrate on studio and orchestral work for 12 years. During this time he composed music for such television shows as Mannix, Ironside, Room 222, M*A*S*H, The Partridge Family and Mission: Impossible. He also formulated and conducted arrangements to various recordings, such as Eric Is Here, a 1967 album by Eric Burdon, which features five of Golson's arrangements, conducted by Golson.

During the mid-1970s, Golson returned to jazz playing and recording. Critic Scott Yannow of Allmusic wrote that Golson's sax style underwent a major shift with his performing comeback, more resembling avant-garde Archie Shepp than the swing-era Don Byas influence of Golson's youth. In 1982, Golson re-organized the Jazztet.

In November 2009, Golson was inducted into the International Academy of Jazz Hall of Fame, during a performance at the University of Pittsburgh's annual jazz seminar and concert. (source: Wikipedia)

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