alto saxophone Cannonball Adderley bass Sam Jones cover [design] Reid Miles drums Art Blakey lacquer cut by Rudy Van Gelder liner notes Leonard Feather photography by Francis Wolff piano Hank Jones producer Alfred Lion recorded by Rudy Van Gelder trumpet Miles Davis Record Company Blue Note Records Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey Pressed By Plastylite This pressing has: - 47 WEST 63rd - NYC address and MICROGROOVE, and no ® on the labels - Deep groove on both sides. - No Inc. in the address on the labels, or back cover. - P, for the Plastylite pressing plant, is stamped a bit crookedly, and hard to read - RVG stamped in the trail off, both sides. - Address in back cover should be printed with Serif font and is considered the first printing, per Fred Cohen's A guide for Identifying Original Pressings, page 105.
Miles Davis performs by courtesy of Columbia Records. Hank Jones performs by courtesy of Capitol Records. Recorded on March 9, 1958.
The Plastylite logo is stamped at a slight angle on the side 1 dead wax, so only the top of the logo is visible. On side 2, it was stamped at a more extreme angle, causing a dent in the original master lacquer, and is even less recognizable. On both sides the 9 and M are etched sideways relative to the rest of the information that's etched or stamped.
Matrix / Runout: BN 1595-A (Label side A) Matrix / Runout: BN 1595-B (Label side B) Matrix / Runout: BN-LP-1595-A (P) 9 M RVG (Runout side A, variant 1: P logo & RVG are stamped, 9 & M are etched sideways.) Matrix / Runout: RVG (P) BN-LP-1595-B 9 M (Runout side B, variant 1, P logo & RVG are stamped, 9 & M are etched sideways.) Matrix / Runout: BN-LP-1595-A Q MP RVG (Runout side A, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: BN-PL-1595-B M9 RVG Q (Runout side B, variant 2)