One of many JAZZ LPs from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a large amount of PROMO LPs.
Many others still in SHRINK WRAP. Several STILL SEALED
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL and Masterdisk pressings in the mix!
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This auction is for:
LENNY PICKETT  with
The BORNEO HORNS
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.CARTHAGE Records CGLP 7001
Original 1987 issue • Stereo LP
FIRST PRESSING

VINYL is NM
Full gloss vinyl looks and plays Like New. Labels are super clean both sides with no spindle marks.
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COVER is NM
Still in the original shrink wrap, crisp, tight and straight with no creases, indentations, soil, writing or other marks. Sharp corners all around ... a bit of very light bumping to opening edge is the only flaw to an otherwise faultless cover.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

TRUE FIRST PRESSING
LP meets all the specifications at DISCOGS for a 1st Press.
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MATRIX NUMBERS

Side One: CGLP7001-A-1

Side Two: CGLP7001-B
"MASTERDISK" stamped in trail-off wax, side one; "EDP", on both sides.

© 1987 Carthage Records
Jacket made in Canada
Rocky Hill NJ address for Carthage Records
printed on back cover and labels

Mastered at MASTERDISK by BOB LUDWIG
All selections were recorded at Skyline Studios in NYC direct to full track stereo (30 ips). The “tape” used in ‘Solo For Saxophone And Tape‘ was recorded at Grog Kill Studio in Mt. Templar, NY and with the exception of that pre-recording, all information on this album is first generation. Editing and sequencing was done at Horizon Studio in NJ and at Sourcer Sound in NYC. Direct to metal mastering was done by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk in NYC, and plating was done at Europadisk in NYC.

Skyline sessions were engineered by Paul Wickliffe assisted by Tom Durack. Grog Kukk sessions were engineered by Tom Mark. All editing was done by Paul Wickliffe.

SIDE ONE
1. Dance music for Borneo Horns #1
2. Solo for saxophone and tape
3. Dance music for Borneo Horns #2
4. Septet #2 for Seven Winds and Percussion

SIDE TWO
1. Dance Suite Section D
2. Dance Music for Borneo Horns #4
3. Dance Suite Section 1
4. Dance Music for Borneo Horns #5
6. Landscape

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"LENNY PICKETT is one of the most phenomenal, widely and wildly talented saxophone players of his generation. Self-taught, with a relentlessly soulful approach, a deep understanding and transcendent melding of so many Afro, world, blues, jazz, funk and roots with a very free, instinctual feel for putting it all together here into something not only new, but groundbreaking. He also possesses a beautiful musical mind and a highly original, bracing, compelling, distinctive voice.

Growing up in Berkeley CA, he initially gained fame with TOWER OF POWER. Pickett changed coasts in the 1980's and became a fixture of the downtown New York City avant-garde that centered around the performing space known as the Kitchen and that featured musicians like Peter Gordon, Ned Sublette, and Rhys Chatham. he later went on to be the bandleader for Saturday Night Live (SNL).

His several hundred recording and performing credits include work with artists from Talking Heads to David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Paul McCartney, William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Grace Jones, Nona Hendryx, The Meters, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Aaron Neville, Lucky Peterson, Black Uhuru, Laurie Anderson, Little Feat, to even Mariah Carey and Mick Jagger.  On top of all of this, he is a professor in the Jazz Studies department at New York University, and, when his schedule permits, performs clinics and concerts worldwide."
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No wonder Lenny Pickett's own records are so far and few between, but when he drops one it's a mind-blowing experience. He has exactly 2 albums under his own name, this phenomenal "BORNEO HORNS", from 1987 and "THE PRESCRIPTION" from 2014.

THE BORNEO HORNS is the only one of those ever released (long out of print) on VINYL.
(and it's the one you really want.)

All of these strangely different vectors (particularly the Funk and the Spiritual Free Jazz) are channeled into one uncommonly powerful, eccentric, deliriously, playfully and seriously funky album here -  with soulful, quirky primal beats underpinning the diverse horns and reeds in a thick, mystery-laden terrain of sounds from another world, replete with dense jungles and dark, dangerous urban back alleys. No electronics on this LP btw, should the previous statement suggest that.

Despite this being Pickett's first album as a leader, he chose to emphasize his vision and writing abilities over and beyond his ferocious technique as a player. These grooving, expansive, propulsive, bracing tracks are a true revelation ...a record you can listen to again & again and still not hear it all.

A very scarce record, not to be missed
...there's nothing else like it, not even close

Disc inside anti-static poly inner sleeve.

Even though still in the original shrink-wrap
LP is kept in a protective, clear poly outer-sleeve
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Please see my other listings for more
Vintage and Collectible JAZZ LPs
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