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Artist:   MAX ROACH

Title:   “Plus Four”

Label:   EMARCY ~ MG 36098.  Monaural pressing on medium thick vinyl with deep groove. 

Session date:  1956

Personnel: 

Max Roach – drums 

Kenny Dorham – trumpet 

Raphael Home Bryant, George Washington Morrow – bass

Sonny Rollins – tenor sax.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A solid “10” out of 10.    

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG+ with no major problems.   Front panel is clean and bright; has some peeling of laminate along the right edge.  Top seam has approx 4” split at top right.  Bottom seam has approx 1” split at the bottom right.  Reverse is clean; has original retail price sticker at the top left.  Overall a very presentable jacket to accompany the beautiful disc.

Includes original Mercury Records full-color factory inner sleeve in top condition.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Ezz-thetic Dr. Free-zee Just One of Those Things

Side Two:

Mr. X Body and Soul Woodyn’ You     

Review:

“After the tragic deaths of trumpeter Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell in a car accident a few months earlier, drummer Max Roach regrouped with trumpeter Kenny Dorham and pianist Ray Bryant filling in the unfillable holes; tenor great Sonny Rollins and bassist George Morrow remained from the earlier band.  This EmArcy album finds Roach taking plenty of solo space, including almost all of "Dr. Free-Zee" and the climax of "Just One of Those Things."  The horns have plenty of good spots, and other highlights of this worthy set include George Russell's "Ezz-thetic" and a warm rendition of "Body and Soul."”

(courtesy Scott Yanow, allmusic.com.)

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