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January 15, 2024
Start Date:
November 16, 2023
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Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra – Gillespiana
Label:
His Master's Voice – CSD 1392
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:
UK
Released:
1961
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Bop, Big Band, Latin Jazz
Tracklist
A1Prelude
A2Blues
A3Panamericana
B1Africana
B2Toccata
Credits
Bass – Art Davis
Bongos – Jack Del Rio
Congas – Candido
Drums – Chuck Lampkin
Horns – Al Richman*, Gunther Schuller, James Buffington*, Julius Watkins, Morris Secon, William Lister
Piano – Lalo Schifrin
Saxophone – Leo Wright
Timbales, Timpani – Willie Rodriguez
Trombone – Britt Woodman, Frank Rehak, Paul Faulise, Urbie Green
Trumpet – Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Ernie Royal, Joe Wilder, John Frosk
Tuba – Don Butterfield
Notes
UK 1st pressing stereo in front laminated-flip back sleeve.
UK STEREO FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN FRONT LAMINATED FLIP-BACK SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE.
MATRIX: SIDE A: VS 68394A-1 / SIDE B: VS 68394B-1 .
MOTHER / STAMPER: SIDE A: 1 / R. SIDE B: 1 / R.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.
DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. 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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