Sold Date: July 21, 2018
Start Date: July 9, 2018
Final Price: $200.00 $120.00 (USD)
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Up for sale is very clean copy of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ‎– The Big Beat. It's an early pressing with RVG and the "ear" symbol in the dead wax and the 47 West 63rd Street address..

Vinyl is (visual) M-/VG++. Areas of scuffing and hairlines. Still glossy.
Cover is M-/VG++. Very clean, a little general wear. Faded a bit around the edges. 1 tiny red marker mark in upper left back corner. Bit of corner wear. (see photos for details).
VPI cleaned.

I play-graded this one. Side one sounds great. There are some intermittent light ticks/surface noise in the right channel on some parts of track 1. By track 2 surface noise/ticks are gone. Track 2 plays clean, sounds great. The surface noise/light ticks are back for track 3, in the left channel now, it comes and goes, not present for entire track, you mostly hear it in quiet sections. No pops or clicks.
Side 2 sounds great as well. Light ticks/surface noise can be heard in quiet sections of track 1. Track 2 plays pretty clean, not hearing much of that ticking/surface noise, similar to side 1, track 2. Track 3 has some ticking/surface noise in quiet sections.. No pops or clicks.

From a collection I recently purchased from an 83-year old record collector. His record shelves had plexi-glass doors in front of them which explains the amazing condition of the sleeves. He also took incredibly good care of the records. Follow my listings for more M-, mono Blue Note, Prestige, Pacific Jazz, Verve, Contemporary and Riverside LPs I'll be listing in the coming days.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ‎– The Big Beat Label: Blue Note ‎– BLP 4029 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono  Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop Tracklist Hide Credits A1The Chess Players Written-By – Wayne Shorter A2Sakeena's Vision Written-By – Shorter* A3Politely Written-By – Bill Hardman B1Dat Dere Written-By – Bobby Timmons B2Lester Left Town Written-By – Shorter* B3It's Only A Paper Moon Written-By – Rose*, Harburg*, Arlen* Companies, etc. Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Published By – Groove Music (3) Credits Bass – Jymie Merritt Design [Cover] – Reid Miles Drums – Art Blakey Liner Notes – Nat Hentoff Photography By [Cover Photo] – Francis Wolff Piano – Bobby Timmons Producer – Alfred Lion Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter Trumpet – Lee Morgan Notes Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter performs by courtesy of Vee Jay Records. Bobby Timmons performs by courtesy of Riverside Records.
Recorded on March 6, 1960.
Blue/white deep groove Blue Note Records INC - 47 West 63rd - NYC label on one side, Blue Note Records INC - New York USA label on the other side. RVG stamped in the dead wax, both sides. "P" for Plastylite plant etched in the trail off, both sides. Front laminated jacket No address on back cover Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Runout A): RVG BN-LP-4029-A Matrix / Runout (Runout B): RVG BM-LP-4029-B