STAN GETZ / EDDIE SAUTER, Focus stereo USA 1st pressing EXC- LP

Sold Date: December 1, 2020
Start Date: November 15, 2020
Final Price: $16.99 (USD)
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Stan Getz / Eddie Sauter ‎– Focus Label: Verve Records ‎– V6-8412 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold  Country: US Released: 1961 Genre: Jazz Style: Contemporary Jazz Tracklist  A1I'm Late, I'm Late8:08 A2Her6:08 A3Pan3:55 B1I Remember When4:57 B2Night Rider3:52 B3Once Upon A Time4:45 B4A Summer Afternoon5:56 Companies, etc. Published By – Cressada Music Inc. Credits Arranged By, Composed By – Eddie Sauter Bass – John Neves Cello – Bruce Rogers Conductor – Hershy Kay Drums – Roy Haynes Engineer [Recording, Mastering] – Ray Hall Liner Notes – Dom Cerulli Photography By [Cover] – Pete Turner (4) Producer – Creed Taylor Saxophone [Tenor] – Stan Getz Viola – Jacob Glick Violin – Alan Martin, Gerald Tarack, Norman Carr Notes Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, July 14, 28, and September / October, 1961. First Pressing: "MGM RECORDS - A DIVISION OF METRO•GOLDWYN•MAYER, INC. - Made in U.S.A." on label. Label with deep groove Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Etched runout side A): V-6-8412-A 61-VGS-552 WC Matrix / Runout (Etched runout side B): V-6-8412-B 61-VGS-553 WC Rights Society: ASCAP  

USA STEREO FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH NEW GENERIC WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. CORNER BUMPS. 

DISC: VISUALLY EXCELLENT MINUS WITH NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, BUT AS WITH ALL THESE MGM PRESSED VERVE 1960s PRESSINGS, IT PLAYS VERY GOOD+ WITH THE OCCASSIONAL SURFACE NOISE IN PLACES. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.




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