Title: Miroslav Vitous – Mountain In The Clouds
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre: 1970 / Jazz
Matrix #: SD1622
Condition: G+ — shows wear, but plays okay

Cultural Facts:

1. Vitous came out of Prague’s conservatory world and jumped to the U.S. scene right as jazz was colliding with rock volume and studio experimentation—he’s one of the key European “imports” who helped shape early fusion culture.

2. By the time this record dropped, he wasn’t just “a bassist on sessions”—he was a bandleader with serious credibility from the late-60s New York jazz circuit, where the lines between avant-garde, post-bop, and electric fusion were getting blurry fast.

3. If someone knows Vitous mainly from his later fame, this era is the origin story: a moment when a young virtuoso is carving out identity in the open-ended, anything-goes early-70s jazz world.

Price Suggestions (realistic):

• NM: $18–$28

• VG+: $10–$16

• VG: $7–$12

• G / G+: $4–$8

Date: 1/6/26 TC