Donald Byrd – At The Half Note Cafe – Hard Bop Vinyl LP – Blue Note-Art Pepper

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Donald Byrd is an incredibly talented jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player with the unique ability to fuse bebop with r&b soul and funk sounds.  He was powerfully influential on many of the emerging jazz funk artists of the last 40 years, including Herbie Hancock.  This is one of his earliest Blue Note recordings, and it captures Byrd leading his powerful quintet is a spectacular live performance at The Half Note Café in New York City in 1960.  Leading the way here with Byrd is a young and powerful baritone sax player, Art Pepper.  Both these amazing musicians provide stunning moments of incredible bebop and hard bop musicianship.  This fabulous album was released on Blue Note in 1966, number BST 84060.  This is a reissue of the album originally released in 1961.  The vinyl is in exceptional condition with its bright original luster and just a couple of very light scuffs that barely impact play.  It plays beautifully with just very light sporadic background noise.  The vinyl grades VG.  The album cover shows light ring wear and light corner and edge wear.  All seams are sharp, tight, and intact.  The cover grades VG+. 

Album Tracks: 
My Girl Shirl
Soulful Kiddy

A Portrait Of Jennie
Cecile
The Theme

Grading Information

I only 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.  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.  Very 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. 

Shipping Information – Combined Shipping

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. Canada shipping rates have gone up dramatically. The first album will be shipped for $16.  Additional albums will be shipped for $4 per album, with up to five albums 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. 

The Canada cost determination also applies for all other International shipping, except that the first album is shipped for $21 and each subsequent is just an additional $5.00. 

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.  Payment by Paypal is preferred. 

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