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Music For Moderns

LP (Item 73542) Clef, Early 50s — Condition: Very Good
One of the really unique albums on Verve's "Special Series" of the early 50s – a set of tracks that mix modern orchestrations and jazz – written and conducted by Moore, and featuring Calvin Jackson as the lead soloist on piano! Side one features the extended "Concerto For Piano & Orchestra" – a long track that really cooks along very nicely, with the sort of strange "jazz meets orchestra" twists that were showing up on the best Verve sides of the time, such as work by Ralph Burns. Side two is more sedate, but still nice – with Jackson playing on versions of "Laura", "Blue Skies", "Oh Lady Be Good", "Blues In The Night", and "Lover". David Stone Martin cover, too!  © 1996-2025, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(Original pressing – with Special Series label – nice and heavy, and cover is too! Cover has a split top seam, which has a small piece of masking tape – and bottom seam has making tape. Vinyl is nice and clean.)

Very Good

  • Vinyl can have some dirt, but nothing major.
  • May not shine under light, but should still be pretty clean, and not too dirty.
  • May have a number of marks (5 to 10 at most), and obvious signs of play, but never a big cluster of them, or any major mark that would be very deep. Most marks should still not click under a fingernail.
  • May not look near perfect, but should play fairly well, with slight surface noise, and the occasional click in part of a song, but never throughout a whole song or more.
  • This is clearly a copy that was played by someone a number of times, but which could also be a good "play copy" for someone new.

Condition Notes

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