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  The Frank Wess Quartet ‎– The Frank Wess Quartet Label: Moodsville ‎– MVLP 8, Prestige ‎– MVLP 8 Series: Moodsville –  Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono  Country: UK Released: 1960 Genre: Jazz Style: Post Bop Tracklist  A1It's So Peaceful In The Country A2Rainy Afternoon A3Star Eyes B1Stella By Starlight B2But Beautiful B3Gone With The Wind B3I See Your Face Before Me Companies, etc. Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Credits Bass – Eddie Jones Drums – Bobby Donaldson Flute, Tenor Saxophone – Frank Wess Mastered By – Rudy Van Gelder (tracks: RVG)  Piano – Tommy Flanagan Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder Notes USA pressed for export on plum/silver label to UK and housed in UK sleeve. Label has an import tax sticker on it, and Chappell group publishing. Distributed in Europe by INTERDISC Printed in England Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 9, 1960  

USA PRESSING FOR UK VINYL ALBUM IN FRONT LAMINATED FLIP-BACK SLEEVE WITH WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: MVLP #8 A EIT RVG /  SIDE B: MVLP #8 B EIT A RVG.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  LAMINATED HAS CAUSED SOME CRINKLING. INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND PLAY SCUFFS. DISC PLAYED WITH GOOD AUIO, THE ODD POP OR CLICK BUT NO SKIPS OR JUMPS. 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.