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Record Details

Artist: Lennie Niehaus
Title: Vol.1 The Quintets
Format: 12"
Label: Contemporary Records
Cat No: C 3518
Released: 1956
Country:
Genres: Jazz
Condition Very Good
Status Have
Added To List 22nd January 2016
Disc 1 | 12"
Very Good
Black 
A Matrix:
LKL 12.89.D7 H  
B Matrix:
LKL 12.90.D5 H  

Additional Information

Comments 159 g
yellow frame around data on back cover

First catalog number on front cover, second on rear cover

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, July 2, 1954 (A4,A6,B3,B6) July 9, 1954 (A1,A3,B2,B5) and January 1956 (A2, A5, B1, B4)

Originally released in 10" LP format as C2513 with the 8 tracks from the 1954 sessions. For the 1956 reissue in 12" form, a new Quintet session was recorded for additional program material.

"Technical Data: 30-15,000 cycles. The first two sessions were recorded with a single AKG C-12 condenser microphone, the AKG's first use on a jazz date. A multiple microphone technique with three AKG C-12's was used for the third session. Ampex tape recorders. Mastering on Scully Lathe, Western Electric feedback cutting head, heated stylus, inner diameter quality equalizations, Vinylite "Gruve/Gard" pressings."

Note that Contemporary Records began recording their sessions in stereo in July of 1956, before stereo LP's were pressed.



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