DJANGO REINHARDT GREAT ARTISTRY RARE ORIG'53 CLEF 10" LP DAVID STONE MARTIN CVR

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·       DJANGO REINHARDT - THE GREAT ARTISTRY OF DJANGO REINHARDT - ORIGINAL 1954 10-INCH CLEF RECORDS LP WITH COVER ARTWORK BY DAVID STONE MARTIN - ORIGINAL CLEF RECORDS MONO 10-INCH LP MGC-516

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL BLACK, GLOSSY CLEF LABEL WITH SILVER SCRIPT AND DAVID STONE MARTIN'S "TRUMPETER" LOGO

·       DEEP GROOVE PRESSING

·       FLAT-EDGE PRESSING

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Simply put: some of the most beautiful, simply elegant, and elegantly simple, but in any way deeply felt and profoundly spiritual music this side of Heaven was created by this semi-literate French gypsy who was lacking two of his fingers; in addition, the album sports one of the RAREST David Stone Martin covers in existence.

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This is the Django Reinhardt who might have been, recorded only two months before his death from a stroke. With a French bop rhythm section in tow, he thoroughly adapts himself to the prevailing idiom while allowing himself plenty of gypsy-flavored runs and those unique harmonic turns of phrase. Reinhardt's sharp attacks, fast runs, vibrato, and bright tone on electric guitar delineate the links to Les Paul much more clearly than his acoustic guitar recordings do (explicitly so in one of Paul's famous vehicles, "Brazil"), and runs like those on "Confessin'" must have had an effect upon Chet Atkins. Clearly, Reinhardt would have been a leading, distinctive light of mainstream bop-grounded jazz had he lived and toured outside France. He could also play the blues convincingly on the cool, swinging, and droll "Blues for Ike" (for the newly inaugurated President Eisenhower?). Nevertheless, there is a strain of melancholy that runs through most of this collection, nowhere more so than in his heart-stopping closing rendition of his tune "Manoir de Mese Reves" (also known as "Django's Castle"); one could read a portent of impending mortality into this. Issued on 10" LPs in the 1950s, first on Mercury, then on Clef, mutilated in the '70s with overdubs by a group called Guitars Unlimited, and not issued on CD until the early '90s, these sessions have not been given their due among historians. But they are indispensable for a total understanding of his music.

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RICHARD S.GINELL, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Track list

A1 Night And Day

A2 Blues For Ike

A3 Nuages

A4 Insensiblement

B1 Brazil

B2 September Song

B3 Confessin'

B4 Manoir De Mes Reves

Credits

Bass – Pierre Michelot

Cover – David Stone Martin

Drums – Jean-Louis Viale

Guitar – Django Reinhardt

Liner Notes – Norman Granz

Piano – Maurice Vander

Recorded March 10, 1953 in Paris, France.

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++. A few light abrasions ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks impeccable, without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record has a "deep groove" (an indent in the label about 1/2-inch from the edge of the label, which on SOME labels is associated with very early or first pressings).

(c)           This is the original flat-edge pressing

(d)          The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD (VG).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Minor discoloration (color fading) noted along the top seam and the spine

-        Cover has some ring wear. On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 6.

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the top seam (nothing significant)

-        Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER

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