SONNY ROLLINS Plus 4 Mobile Fidelity MFSL Super Rare NEVER Released TEST PRESS
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SONNY ROLLINS Plus 4 Test Pressing NM/NM Used Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: Mobile Fidelity MFSL1-272
Here is a REAL curiosity that some audiophile out there may have an answer for. Up for bid is a Mobile Fidelity Test Pressing. Record is packaged in a generic white sleeve with the following information printed on it:
AUGUST 30 2002 MFSL-1 272 A1 / B1
The RTI generic record label has the SAME info stamped on it.
MFSL-1 272 A1 is even stamped in the dead wax along with the code:
PS/2 @ MOFI
and
8315-2 (3)
A search of MFSL index numbers say that this *SHOULD BE* Aimee Mann's "Bachelor No. 2," but it's not. Play grade reveals it to be Sonny Rollin's 1956 classic, "Plus 4." Of all the documentation that I've been able to dig up, Plus 4 was released on Mobile Fidelity SACD, but NOT on vinyl. Apparently this is a test pressing for a vinyl record that was NEVER released!
Review: On this session a twenty-something Sonny Rollins uses the other musicians in the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet (of which he was a member) as his sidemen. When you consider the personnel, the tunes, and the impending tragic deaths of Clifford Brown and Richie Powell (both were involved in a fatal car crash just months after this recording was made), the historical significance of this disc is immense. This is hard bop at its finest.
The music on Plus Four seems timeless. It documents one of the greatest working groups in jazz history—and, in Rollins and Brown, two of the genre's greatest practitioners in their prime. ~ All About Jazz
Songs:
Side One 1. Valse Hot 2. Kiss and Run
Side Two 3. Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) 4. I Feel a Song Coming On 5. Pent-Up House
Record is unsealed and in Near Mint condition.
These highly collectible test pressings are from the first stamper and sometimes less than 20 exist. Test pressings reflect the closest you can get to the lacquers and have a very special collectible value.
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