Artist: Oscar Peterson
Title: Something Warm
Genre: Jazz
Type: Audiophile LP
Label: Verve Records, 1982, Pressed in Japan
Catalog ID: UMV 2112
Condition: NM (no obi)
Price: $16 + shipping
Japanese vinyl releases are premium quality pressings, much sought after by audiophiles and collectors alike. The sonic quality of Japanese pressings is considered to be among the best in the world and, in addition, they are beautifully presented, their covers usually printed on better quality heavy stock paper and often including a bonus lyric insert with dual language Japanese & English text.
Regardless of your musical taste, Japanese records make a stunning addition to any collection. Audibly and visually they present the collector with a feast of delights. Genuine mint condition records, complete with inserts and obi, are becoming rarer every day.
Whatever the digital age throws at you there is still a valid opinion that says vinyl sounds best; with Japanese records you get top quality pressings, a tactile picture sleeve that looks stunning and you can sing along from the lyric insert.
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Artist: Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition
Title: Irresistible Forces
Genre: Jazz
Type: LP
Label: Impulse!/MCA Records, 1987, PROMO COPY!!
Catalog ID: MCA 5992
Condition: NM
Price: $9 + shipping
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Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Title: The Jerome Kern Songbook
Genre: Jazz
Type: LP
Label: Verve Records, 1985, Pressed in Germany
Catalog ID: LC 0383
Condition: NM
Price: $15 + shipping
From the seventh album in her celebrated Song Book series, Ella Fitzgerald tackled classic melodies writted for Broadway and Hollywood by Jerome Kern, the grandfather of the modern musical comedy, with backing by the orchestra of Nelson Riddle, the dean of Hollywood pop-jazz arrangers. For lovers of good songs and good singing, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book is a triple treat.
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Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Title: The Irving Berlin Songbook (2-LP set)
Genre: Jazz
Type: 2-LP SET
Label: Verve Records, 1986
Catalog ID: 829 533-1
Condition: NM
Price: $20 + shipping
In this collection of 32 songs - all enriched by Ella Fitzgerald's superb renditions - may be found many of Berlin's most durable songs written over a period of almost 40 years. That durability stems directly from the songwriter's basic belief that the only real function of a song is to communicate an idea, a feat Berlin managed to accomplish in no small measure through his innovative treatment of song construction, rhythms, and key changes, and through his unique way with words, images, and rhymes. "A song cannot exist by itself," he has said.
"It must reach an audience, make people glad, sad, want to dance, want to sing, and provide expressions of love for the shy and speechless. I may think something I've written in the best thing I've done, but if the public doesn't understand what I'm trying to say, if the song doesn't get across the desired emotion, it has no value."
