Sold Date: December 23, 2020
Start Date: November 19, 2020
Final Price: $225.00 (USD)
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***NOTE: THIS IS A POLYURETHANE MASTER PRESSING AND NOT AN ORIGINAL ISSUE. MADE FROM A HIGH-RESOLUTION SILICONE MOLD AND EXTREMELY HIGH-VISCOSITY POLYURETHANE RESIN. IT SOUNDS AND PLAYS JUST LIKE AN ORIGINAL WOULD IN FULL ANALOG GLORY, ALL THE SURFACE NOISE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORIGINAL SHELLAC. I HAVE BEEN MAKING THESE FOR COLLECTORS FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW, AND MANY SOUND ENGINEERS AND COLLECTORS CAN ATTEST TO THEIR QUALITY. CONTACT ME DIRECTLY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE A LIST OF ITEMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE***
ARTIST:  Charlie Johnson's Orchestra
LABEL:   Victor test pressing mx BVE-53600-1 (per discographies, destroyed!). 
TITLES:  Molasses
CONDITION:  V, two large edge bites not into grooves, long tight hairline crack NAP. This is stabilized by the copying process. Not cracked all the way through on the copies (unlike the original). Scratches and scuffs and light to moderate distortion, but still a great player. All the defects of the record are present in the copies. This may have been rejected because of the whistling sound near the end due to the cooling recording wax.
DESCRIPTION: Polyurethane copy of an unissued test pressing found c. 2007 in a junk shop in Los Angeles listed in discographies as destroyed. A transfer started circulating in the jazz community in c. 2014, and a blog post on the record appeared a few years later. I acquired the record from the finder about a week ago. No Charlie Johnson collection is complete without this. This is one of the hottest, tightest, and best-arranged jazz records of the 1920s. Cleaned up transfer https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZShlzXZ5sY5RhCa4x0YUcmSFWl8UjIP19eV CHARLIE JOHNSON AND HIS PARADISE BAND: Charlie Johnson, p, dir: Leonard Davis, Sidney de Paris, t / Jimmy Harrison, tb / Ben Whittet, cl, as / Edgar Sampson, cl, as, vn / Ben Waters, cl, ts, a / George Stevenson, tb / Bobby Johnson, bj / Billy Taylor, bb / George Stafford, d / New York, May 8, 1929. 78 GRADING:  We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted,  eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).  

E+

Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear.  N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.

E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black. 

E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.

V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.

V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.

V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.

P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.

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