Miles Davis LP Score?

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I need the help of those that know Miles Davis LP's well. In a local Thrift I came across about 8 Jazz LP's mostly Coltrane & Monk 80's reissues. After closer examination 1 LP looked more "original" it's Miles Davis' All Stars Walkin' (Prestige 7076), it has rubber stamped in red ink on the back cover "PREVIEW COPY".
I brought it to a friend that knows far more then I. He looked it up, and believes it to be an early pressing based on having a black & yellow label. Here's the twist: the catalog he was looking in only listed black & yellow labels with a W 50th St NY address. This is a black & yellow with a Bergenfield NJ address on it.

So....is it rare? valuable? or average?
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer & this is not a solicitation for sale. This album will be enjoyed along will the more common stuff I have.
Thanks in advance
 
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That album was recorded April 24th, 1954 in Hackensack, NJ which might be why it has the NJ address on it. It might also be an actual preview copy that had a different point of origin similar to RCA's or Columbia's radio service LP's that usually had different labels, different looks. The 7076 number is the number for the 1954 release. (There is huge Prestige data base on the web.) All re-releases that I know of or recently looked at on the web have different catalogue numbers and even different labels. Sounds original to me. My guess is it isn't worth any more than any other Miles Davis of the period unless it's a NM to M copy which is always worth keeping for yourself. The Prestige recordings, "...which always had a jam session feel..." (see footnote) were done very quickly in the mid-fifties by Miles Davis to fulfill his contract with them so he could move on to Columbia and make history! The Prestige recordings, according to the same source quoted above, seemed to limit what the group could do in the studio because of the constant need, by the record company, to make a jam session recording.

Yanow, Scott: Jazz On Record: The First 60 Years, San Francisco, Backbeat Books, 2003, page 423.
 
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Black and Yellow label with firecrackers? Heavy vinyl? Heavy cardstock cover?

Mono? Stereo? Condition? Writing on back cover that looks printed rather than a fascsimile?

If an original stereo in VG+ condition - $80. Mono - $100.

Since you cannot retire on its value - play it and keep it.

Ken
 
Bergenfield is after New York, I believe, but still early. Probably early 60s, but I could be wrong.

Don't get too excited about the stamp. Labels continued to promote back catalog in those days....or maybe someone switched covers.
 
That's what you call "Being at the right place at the right time". Way-to-go great score!!:thmbsp::music:
 
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