Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, slight discoloration with darker discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back); tiny surface abrasions near bottom with more noticeable abrasion near center on front. Spine has no text and shows wear. Shelf-wear along and splits along top-edge; bottom-edge is completely split with three pieces of tape holding it together. Wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)
William Edward Davison nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they played the music of Louis Armstrong, but he did not achieve wider recognition until the 1940s. He is best remembered for his association with bandleader Eddie Condon, with whom he worked and recorded from the mid-1940s until Condon’s last concert at the New School for Social Research in New York in April 1972 (Chiaroscuro Records, CRD 110).