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JOHN GORDON - EROTICA SUITE - INSANELY RARE ORIGINAL 1978 STRATA-EAST LP SES-19780 - AUTOGRAPHED BY THE ARTIST IN PERSON AT THE WBGO RECORD FAIR IN NEWARK, NJ.
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED TO THE OWNER BY JOHN GORDON PLEASE SEE THE MAGNIFIED DETAIL OF HIS SIGNATURE, SHOWN BELOW
ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE STRATA-EAST LABEL
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
THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.
A fantastic little record and very much the kind of set that the Strata East label was created to represent The music here would hardly have found a home on the bigger jazz labels of the period not because it s too avant-garde or non-commercial, but just because it s so deeply personal and powerful the boldest vision on record of trombonist John Gordon, who composed a mind blowing suite of tracks for the first side of the album, as well as some equally great tunes for the second half Gordon leads the group on trombone with solos that are soaring and soulful, alongside work by the great James Spaulding on alto and flute, Waymond Reed on trumpet, John Miller on piano and keyboards, Lyle Atkinson on bass, and Frank Derrick on drums If you know some of the other players here from their own work of the time, you know you re in for a treat as the music has this fantastic sound of strong individual voices coming together, instruments lifted high on a mission of music with results that are as fantastic all these many years as they were in the 70s.
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WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE OWNER OF ONE OF THE MOST MAJESTIC, MINDBLOWING RECORD COLLECTIONS ON THE PLANET EARTH 16,000 LP ALBUMS ALTOGETHER, OF WHICH ROUGHLY 10,000 TO BE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC , TO OFFER ONLINE HIS COLLECTION TO THE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS, SERIOUS JAZZ COLLECTORS AND GENERAL PUBLIC WORLDWIDE. BARRING ANY LAST-MINUTE IMPEDIMENTS SUCH AS HEALTH ISSUES, WARS, ECONOMIC UPHEAVALS, CLIMATE CATASTROPHES, PANDEMICS, ETC. THIS WILL BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROJECT THIS SELLER HAS EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AND IS EXPECTED TO LAST ANYWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE YEARS. WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE OFFERING INDIVIDUAL ITEMS IN GROUPS OF 150-300 IN SIZE, LISTED APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH APART. THIS IS THE FIRST OF WHAT WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT 50 SIMILAR INSTALLMENTS AND SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT IS TO COME. ON SEEING THIS AMAZING COLLECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS SELLER S FIRST REACTION WAS INTENSE, ALMOST VISCERAL, DISBELIEF. IT TOOK YOURS TRULY ABOUT 10 MINUTES OF PINCHING, HEAD-SCRATCHING AND CONTINUOUS GASPING TO REGAIN HIS BREATH AND GRASP THE SHEER MAGNITUDE AND HISTORICAL DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THIS COLLECTION. ALMOST 70 OF THESE ITEMS THIS SELLER SEES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE HAD SPENT MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY COLLECTING RECORDS.
THE BULK OF THE COLLECTION ABOUT 90 CONSISTS OF SOME OF THE RAREST AND MOST COVETED FREE- AND AVANT-GARDE JAZZ, SPIRITUAL JAZZ, RADICAL FREE-BLOWING JAZZ, FAR-OUT FUSION, ELECTRONIC JAZZ, SOUL-JAZZ, BEAT POETRY, EXPERIMENTAL AND IMPROVISATORY JAZZ AND MILITANT AND TRIBAL JAZZ OF EVERY SHAPE, SHADE AND FORM KNOWN TO MAN. NOTHING OF THIS NATURE HAS EVER BEEN SO SYSTEMATICALLY ASSEMBLED AND OBSESSIVELY PRESERVED IN ONE PLACE IN THE AVANT-GARDE JAZZ DOMAIN EVER, ANYWHERE, BY ANYONE. ALL MAJOR ARTISTS WHO EVER CREATED MUSIC IN THE FREE- AND SPIRITUAL JAZZ REALM WILL BE REPRESENTED, AS WILL BE HUNDREDS OF LESSER KNOWN, BUT EQUALLY INFLUENTIAL CULT ARTISTS WHO LEFT INDELIBLE STAMP ON THE WORLD OF THE MODERN JAZZ. LIKEWISE, ALL MAJOR STREAMS AND RECORDING LABELS OF FREE JAZZ WILL BE REPRESENTED, IMPRINTS SUCH AS ESP, INDIA NAVIGATION, EL SATURN, FMP, HAT HUT, BLACK SAINT, SOUL NOTE, RED RECORDS, 1HORO, LEO UK . TRIBE, ISPLASCH, QBICO, STRATA-EAST, BLACK JAZZ, BLACK LION, MOSAIC AND DOZENS OF OTHER HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LABELS. WHILE CLASSIC HARD BOP AND ITS BANNER LABELS BLUE NOTE, PRESTIGE, RIVERSIDE, FANTASY, ETC WILL BE INCLUDED, THEY WILL COMPRISE A DISTINCT MINORITY OF OUR JOINT OFFERINGS. APROXIMATELY 20-30 OF ALL ITEMS WILL BE FOREIGN PRESSINGS, MOSTLY THOSE UNIQUE TO THEIR MARKETS AND NEVER AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES. YOU CAN ALSO EXPECT TO SEE HUNDREDS OF PRIVATE PRESSINGS, TEST PRESSINGS , ACETATES, AUDIOPHILE AND LIMITED/NUMBERED RELEASES AND ALIKE. THE COLLECTION ALSO FEATURES A SMALL NUMBER OF OTHER GENRES, SUCH AS BLUES, RB, FUNK AND LATIN AND A NEGLIGIBLE NUMBER OF ROCK TITLES..
THIS IS A PRIMEVAL, FIERY, VIOLENTLY PASSIONATE MUSIC, PERPETUALY MODERN AND EVERY BIT AS TIMELESS AS THE DAY IT WAS BORN A PERPETUAL QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY AN ERUPTIVE, VOLCANIC STATEMENT - A SCREAM, REALLY - OF LIBERATION FROM ALL SOCIAL NORMS AND FORMS IT IS A QUINTESSENTIAL LATE-20th CENTURY ART, EVERY BIT AS RELEVANT TO THE ARTISTIC AND SPIRITUAL QUEST OF THE CONTEMPORARY HUMANITY AS THE ESSENTIAL WORKS OF BRANCUSI, COCTEAU, POLLOCK, MOORE, JASPER JOHNS, BASQUIAT, BUNUEL, BERGMAN, MAKAVEJEV TARKOVSKY, JOHN CAGE, PHILIP GLASS, TERRY RILEY, FRANK ZAPPA, JACK KEROUAC, ALLEN GINSBERG OR LE MONTE YOUNG
THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN OBSESSIVELY BUILT UP AND ORGANISED AND COMPULSIVELY PRESERVED FOR DECADES SINCE THE MID-60s: THE OWNER BORE WITNESS TO THE MOST OF THE AMERICAN JAZZ PIONEERS AND HAS STORIES AND STORIES TO TELL . ASIDE FROM THE STILL SEALED ITEMS YES, THERE WILL BE SOME , ALMOST 95 OF ALL ITEMS FALL INTO THE STRONG NEAR MINT TO UNPLAYED RANGE. A NEGLIGIBLE PERCENTAGE OF ALL ITEMS FALL INTO THE VERY GOOD RANGE AND VIRTUALLY NONE BELOW VG . SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US. MOST OF THE ITEMS FROM THIS COLLECTION WILL BE OF ARCHIVAL GRADE AND TRULY YOUR FINAL UPGRADES
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CONDITION:
THE 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 NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The record comes in a hi-grade PVC inner sleeve, which has - apparently with success - shielded the record from the harmful impact of elements over many years
c The record is 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
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
THE COVER
THE COVER IS NEAR MINT
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear nothing significant 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 1.
- Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.
- Cover has some tiny, faint writing on its back side a microscopic price code written in one corner BARELY VISIBLE
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
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1 The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release, NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description top section, text in red letters . 2 Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone instead, please read the entire description and grading before bidding 3 Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. 4 We are unable to cancel bids in the final 12 hours of the auction if you need to do so, please contact eBay for help 5 We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing information in the final 24 hours of the auction. If you require this information, please contact us well before the final day of the auction. 6 Yes, we DO combine shipments. Please click on Shipping and Payment tab on top of the auction page for additional details. 7 All Paypal payments must be made from confirmed Paypal shipping addresses. NO third party shipping addresses will be honored 8 Absolutely NO partial refunds: if you are unhappy with the merchandise you received, please return it for a full refund, postage included 9 . Civilized people can disagree without accusing each other of being indecent or dishonest if you need proof of this seller s personal integrity, please check our eBay feedback, which speaks for itself 10 All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language attempted humor is fine and usually appreciated, although overused-to-death sarcasms can be really, really tedious. 11 This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and is generally a flexible and agreeable person 12 Our love appreciation for your trust, loyalty and business, always and forever Thank You Good Night
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