Clarence Williams w/ King Oliver 2x Broadway QRS session 1347, 1348 Jazz
$
350
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Description
ARTIST: Clarence Williams and His Orchestra
LABEL: Broadway 1347, 1348
TITLES: Speakeasy / Long Deep & Wide; Squeeze Me / New Down Home Blues, VV+
CONDITION: E (1347), VV+ (1348)
DESCRIPTION: The complete Clarence Williams QRS session from August 1928 - 4 sides with King Oliver. Broadway 1348 has light background noise in spots from many small light scratches. 1347 is in glossy E condition with a couple small scratches and a tiny gray stain that tics lightly a few grooves on "Long, Deep and Wide". Music loud and clear on both, quiet surface on 1347. A chance to get a pair of great Clarence Williams rarities in one lot.
Both play great due to being waxed from QRS masters--1348 surprisingly so. These sound much, much better than existing CD reissues, which are grossly overprocessed.
78 GRADING: We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted, eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).
E+
Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear. N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.
E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black.
E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.
V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.
V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.
V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.
P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.
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