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Album Info

Release Date: 1963

Label: Blue Note

Genuine, true first mono pressings can be determined by the following details:

NEW YORK USA address on both labels
The label paper has no 'deep groove' stamped in it on either side
Address at bottom of back cover reads '43 West 61st St., New York 23'
Deadwax area carries the Plastylite "ear" (aka the pretzel shaped hand etched "P") [pressing plant]
Deadwax area carries the VAN GELDER stamp; the cat.nr. is hand etched
Front cover is laminated [see image section for all these details]

Versions that do not carry the Plastylite "ear" (aka the pretzel shaped, etched "P") are all reissues, released after Liberty Records bought the Blue Note label and are not first pressings. These and the above details courtesy of the "Blue Note Records Guide For Identifying Original Pressings", written by Frederick Cohen from Jazz Record Center, New York.

McCoy Tyner performs by courtesy of Impulse Records.

Recorded on June 3, 1963.

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