design [cover], photography by [cover photo] Reid Miles drums Ben Dixon guitar Grant Green lacquer cut by Rudy Van Gelder liner notes Joe Goldberg organ John Patton producer Alfred Lion recorded by Rudy Van Gelder tenor saxophone Harold Vick trumpet Blue Mitchell Record Company Blue Note Records Inc. Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Lacquer Cut At Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Pressed By Plastylite Printed By Keystone Printed Specialties Co., Inc. Recorded May 27, 1963.
Original first pressings must have the following details:
• Laminated front cover • Labels do *not* have the 'deep groove' pressed in them on either side • Address on labels: Blue Note Records Inc • New York USA • Address on back cover: Blue Note Records, Inc., 43 West 61st St., New York 23 • Plastylite ear (pretzel shaped P) etched in the deadwax • VAN GELDER stamped in the deadwax • Blue Note The Finest In Jazz inner sleeve (LondonJazzCollector Sleeve 5 with [m212240] pictured in column 1, row 5)
All the above details taken from the book Blue Note Records - A Guide for Identifying Original Pressings, written by Frederic Cohen from Jazz Record Centre, New York. Matrix / Runout: BNLP-4138•A VAN GELDER [cursive P] (Side A runout) Matrix / Runout: BNLP-4138• B [cursive P] VAN GELDER (Side B runout)