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Winchester Special

Lem Winchester

Recorded	Sep 25, 1959
Label	New Jazz
Catalog	NJLP-8223
Released	1959
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 347900

The record

Wilmington's own came to jazz late and left it far too soon, but this New Jazz date with Golson's tenor and Flanagan's crisp comping catches him swinging hard and unhurried. A rhythm section built for soul-jazz frames a career cut short near its peak.

Session personnel

Wendell Marshall — bass
Art Taylor — drums
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Benny Golson — tenor saxophone
Lem Winchester — vibraphone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 15 pressings on file.

1959	New Jazz · NJLP-8223 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Narrow DG earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
1959	New Jazz · NJLP-8223 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove
1965	Prestige · NJLP-8223 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Reissue · RVG stamp
1959	Metronome · PRESTIGE 8223 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1960	Metronome · MEP 9016 — Vinyl, 7", EP, Microgroove
1961	Top Rank International · MJ-7007 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1962	Esquire · 32-142 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1974	Prestige · LPJ-80003 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1983	Prestige · 68.375 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1986	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-1719 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Remastered, Limited Edition
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-1719-2 — CD, Album, Remastered, Reissue, Limited Edition
1995	New Jazz — MONO
1999	Prestige · VICJ-60455 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo, Paper sleeve
2013	Prestige · UCCO-5371 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, SHMCD