Archie Shepp-Dollar Brand – Duet - NM Free Jazz Vinyl LP – Japan OG w/Insert

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Archie Shepp is one of my personal favorite tenor sax players, and one of my favorite jazz performers overall.  He was one of the leaders of the free jazz movement, performing with Coltrane on the classics A Love Supreme and Ascension.  His own library is filled with beautiful, compelling music. For this collection he collaborated with brilliant pianist, Dollar Brand.  This South African pianist and composer escaped his homeland with his wife, jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, and settled in New York City in the mid-1960’s.  While there he established himself as a brilliant jazz composer and performer, touring on his own or with established stars including Max Roach and Randy Weston.  His playing style reflects his early homeland influences as well as gospel, soul, funk, and hard bop.  His primary jazz influences are Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, which you will hear in this beautiful performance.  He no longer goes by that stage name.  He now records and performs as Abdullah Ibrahim. This is a beautiful free jazz experience. The album was released on the Japanese Denon label in 1978, number YX-7532-ND.  This is the original release of the album. The album has never been released on vinyl in the US, or anywhere else in the world. The insert liner notes sheet, written in Japanese, is included. The vinyl is in pristine condition with its bright original luster and no scratches or scuffs.  It plays with virtually no background noise.  The vinyl grades NM.  The album cover shows no ring wear and no corner or edge wear. All seams are clean, sharp, tight, and intact. The cover warps out slightly.  The cover grades VG+.

Track List:

Fortunato

Barefoot Boy From Queens Town

Left Alone

Theme From “Proof Of The Man”

Ubu-Suku

Monebah

Grading Information:

I always clean and then listen to every record I list on eBay. I do this to make sure I can give as accurate a description of each record as possible.  I do both a visual check and an audio check. I absolutely attempt to give as objective a grading as I can. I don’t ever want you to be disappointed in the quality of the album you receive.  <p> I use four grades in my grading:  NM, VG+, VG, and G.  The only exception is a sealed album which is presumed to have vinyl in mint condition. Sealed albums may not be returned. My NM grading means that the vinyl looks and plays as though it is the first time out of the sleeve. The VG+ rating is used on any album that plays great but has one or two small defects.  It may have a pop here and there or some occasional background static. On a VG album you can expect that, typically, this album will play great, but you’ll see more defects on this than your VG+ rated album.  Most often the VG rated album may even play well enough to be graded VG+, but the color or blemishes drop the grading.  Likewise, you may occasionally find an album that looks almost NM but the sound quality just isn’t there. That’s why I play every album first, because this does happen.  In this case the vinyl will be graded VG.  Occasionally I will list an album with a grade of G. This is one where I consider the collectible value of the album to be great enough that the copy being presented is worth having as a filler copy. Albums graded G are not returnable.

Shipping Information – Combined Shipping:

The shipping cost will be based on the weight of your package. For Media Mail, shipping is $5.50 in the continental U.S. In addition, I will happily combine records from multiple auctions to reduce total shipping cost. In fact, I welcome it!  Shipping will be $5.50 in the U.S regardless of the number of auctions won in any 5-day period. If you also happen to win one or more 7” records, those will be shipped separately to keep all records in appropriately sized mailers.

Canada shipping is calculated based on weight using US Postal Service rates.  Combined shipping is also welcomed here and does result in significant per-album cost savings. The first album will typically cost approximately $24. Additional albums will be shipped for $6 per album, with up to four pounds able to be shipped before we need to use International Priority shipping. At that point we will work together on final determination of shipping cost.

Shipments to outside the US and Canada will vary depending on your country. Typically the cost per album will be no more than $30.  Combined shipping is welcome here as well, at a cost of $10 per additional album up to the maximum of four pounds.

All albums will be shipped in specially designed album hard cardboard mailers with a cardboard insert to prevent damage upon opening.  The vinyl is removed from the cover and presented in a new poly sleeve.  I am committed to one day turnaround on shipments.  If I receive payment before 7:00 AM Central Time I will package and ship that same day.

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