Freddie Hubbard Life Flight (Blue Quiex, DMM, Masterdisk)
Original 1987 Blue Note AUDIOPHILE, FIRST pressing. Pressed on translucent Blue QUIEX AUDIOPHILE VIRGIN VINYL. DMM (Direct Metal Master) and MASTERDISK in dead wax, exceptional sound. Translucent BLUE (when held to light) vinyl has some surface sleeve scuffs holding grade back, nothing I can feel. May have some light background noise, NOT play tested. Labels are excellent with the exception of a couple faint spindle marks. Original Blue Note inner sleeve has very light cornerwear/edgewear and a small split center of bottom edge. Blue Note 'family' sign-up insert creasing/dings upper right and lower left corners. Cover has cornerwear, light edgewear, and ringwear/hazing.
If you’re not familiar with Quiex, it's like this: As CDs began coming on the scene in the 1980s, record companies started pressing Quiex II lps for primarily for radio stations. The idea was to show that vinyl was still king and sounded as good--or better--than CDs. MOST Quiex pressings were marked as Quiex that were shipped to radio. But if too many were pressed, they were packaged as regular LPs and those lucky enough to unknowingly buy them were then blessed with clearer sound! This translucent brown Audiophile beauty IS one of those pressings.
Genre: Jazz
Condition: VG++
Cover Condition: VG++Label: Blue Note
Reference Number: BT-85139
Date: 1987
Country: US
SKU: 17191
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