Before buying please ensure you understand this has a plain white card sleeve with my added colour facsimilie of the original front attached.

This week I am offering a treasure trove: I found a small pile of unused Esquires, and sorted through them with a bright light to identify the best condition ones, lacking storage damage, and any spindle marks of being played by customers in the shop. No marks to playing surfaces or labels. These are the ones that are like they came out of the factory 60 years ago. Some of these are changing hands for healthy three figures, and if you have a sleeve with a worn one in, you have hit the jackpot. we do combine shipping to save money for you.

This appears to be my last one!.

Pristine vinyl 1957 Unplayed new Old Stock 1957 Phil Woods & Sahib Shihab on Four Altos. Esquire 32-074 UK 1st Press RVG in the dead wax. Full band is Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein - alto saxophones
Mal Waldron - piano
Tommy Potter - bass
Louis Hayes - drums. A very fine lp, mine gets plenty of plays. A pre 1959 US mother sent over by Prestige, and pressed on better vinyl over here. I have this myself, a killer album, with killer trading of licks between that crazily strong front line, and good old fantastic soloing as well. Quill  died young, Hal Stein's album of two years before this is ridiculously expensive, vg copies even, sell for hundreds.

One review noted:

"although this is a Van Gelder-engineered session, the horns aren't "reverb-enhanced" or the piano's sound "bottled up." Definitely, the best all-alto blowing session I've yet come across (none of the irritating distortion of Rudy's unbearable 3-tenor "A Blowin' Session," on which Griffin, Coltrane and Mobley all sound like buzz saws)."

When we post this to you, we pack in hard card custom made new boxes.  

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