Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
EX/NM
Notes:
℗ & © 1996 GRP Records Inc. Digitally remastered using 20-Bit Super Mapping. Comes in a 3-Panel Digipak with 15-Page booklet. Tracks 1, 2 & 3 recorded live at Birdland, New York on October 8, 1963. Tracks 4 & 5 recorded in the studio on November 18, 1963. "The bonus track 'Vilia' was the first tune recorded at a March 6, 1963 session that also included the quartet's first attempt at 'Nature Boy' and the five then untitled originals. 'Vilia' was issued on the multi-artist anthology 'The Definite Jazz Scene Volume 3'. No master of the other tunes have survived. [...." Michael Cuscuna, in liner notes.
1. Afro Blue 10:52
2. I Want To Talk About You 8:11
3. The Promise 8:06
4. Alabama 5:08
5. Your Lady 6:39
. Bonus Track
6. Vilia 4:36
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Barcode 011105119825
Barcode 0 11105-1198-2 5
Label Code LC 0236
Matrix / Runout SONOPRESS R-4506-1/ IMP11982 A
Mastering SID Code IFPI L030
Mould SID Code IFPI 00706
Matrix / Runout SONOPRESS R-4506/ IMP11982 A
Mastering SID Code IFPI L024
Mould SID Code IFPI 0794
Price Code BM 720
Rights Society BIEM/GEMA
Recorded At Birdland
Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Phonographic Copyright (p) MCA Records, Inc.
Mastered At MCA Studios, New York
Remastered At MCA Music Media Studios
Pressed By Sonopress
Distributed By BMG
Phonographic Copyright (p) GRP Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) GRP Records, Inc.