Miles Davis Dig 1957 mono LP 7012 NYC address RVG

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Miles Davis 1957 Prestige LP 7012 Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter and Art Blakey.  Remastered by Van Gelder.

Prestige yellow and black with 446 W. 50th St. N.Y.C. address.  Runout is marked PRLP-7012-A-1 on side A, and PRLP-7012-B on side B.  I'm not sure if the 1 on side A indicates a first press or not, but it doesn't appear on side B.  Both side A and B have RVG in the runout.  There is a name and address label on side B, visible in picture.

Record plays through very well.  There are a couple of audible pops at normal volume levels, but I had to turn it loud to hear any crackle even between songs.  This record plays exceptionally cleanly.

See pictures.  Each corner has minor bangs  Splits at open side top and bottom with top one about one eighth of an inch and bottom one about half of an inch.  Front is glossy.  Back is a little yellowed with age.  This is probably a promo copy, part of the letter N is visible beside a name and address sticker on back, with the letters le sticking out on the other side.  I assume that under the sticker it probably says ot For Sa.  Sweet Ga Brown is written in pencil above the song title, "Dig" in the playlist.  Overall, it looks great for an over fifty year old record jacket.

Playlist as follows:

Side A

Dig

It's Only A Paper Moon

Denial

Side B

Bluing

Out Of The Blue

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Be sure to click the see other items button for more records as I will be liquidating a 5,000 record collection over the next few years.  This collector started in the 1930s and continued until cds supplanted records as the medium of choice.  The collection is mostly jazz and classical.  There are name and address stickers on most of the records and covers that I don't dare try to remove as many have been there for fifty years!  Besides putting on stickers, the original collector often left handwritten notes to himself on the back covers, usually dates.  Having seen his massive cassette and reel to reel collection, and going by the dates, I suspect that the dates are when he made tapes of the albums.  I also suspect that the taping is the reason that these records are in such nice condition.  This collector was a non smoker, but he got at least some of his records used, I've seen a couple that obviously came from library sales.  If I notice a smoky smell, I will note it, but so far they smell like cardboard.