THELONIOUS MONK SEPTET - Monk's Music

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album Repress Mono

Recorded in New York, June 26, 1957

First catalog number on front cover, second at very bottom of spine, and third on back cover and labels.

No Riverside logo at top right corner of front cover.
"Monaural 242" boxed at lower left corner of front cover.
"Riverside Reeves Spectrosonic High Fidelity Engineering" logo on top right corner of front cover.

Blue labels with silver print, deep groove pressing ring both sides and smaller (25 mm) secondary pressing ring around A-side spindle hole.

"Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. New York City" on two lines at bottom of labels.

Has [l547466] "AB" etched lightly on A-side runout, but secondary pressing ring is larger than the plant's typical secondary ring, so pressed with metal from Abbey Record Mfg. Co.

Runouts are hand etched. The "16" in H 16 is etched sideways in both runouts.

Back cover reads "Riverside Records are released by Bill Grauer Productions 553 West 51st Street New York 19, N.Y." on four lines at bottom center.

John Coltrane appears through the courtesy of PRESTIGE Records.

Appears nearly identical to [r7935839] except that the covers have different printed features as described above.