kh1958 Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic on verve, 1944-1949 (disc 7) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 The Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1955 -- 1966. I'm really enjoying this one and very happy I finally bought it. Paul Desmond is fast becoming a favorite of mine now, he reminds me of Johnny Hodges, in that when his solo is over, you get a tremendous sense of completion, that it couldn't be done any better by anyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Tubby Hayes 'The Little Giant (Proper) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 George Shearing 'The Complete Quintet Studio Sessions' (United Archives) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 Jazz Crusaders complete PJ studio recordings. Now on disc 3. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brownie Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Bud Powell Complete Verve box, CD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr jazz Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 (edited) Jimi Hendrix purple box set. not jazz but I am groovin to it. Edited August 13, 2012 by mr jazz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valeria Victrix Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 One of the all time greats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1971 - 1975. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Bud Powell Complete Verve box, CD 3 I always preferred Bud's Vreve recordings over his recordings for BN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdo Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 (edited) Dexter Gordon Steeplechase Trio/Quartet Box Edited August 17, 2012 by romualdo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Full-length "Eurydice"...nice from a musical standpoint, but that's not how it was released, nor how it stayed released until now...oh well, who's complaining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Bought this on a whim recently and it's really very good. Nice when that happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdo Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Picked this up from Honest Jons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted August 18, 2012 Report Share Posted August 18, 2012 Picked this up from Honest Jons A good 'un Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted August 18, 2012 Report Share Posted August 18, 2012 MS-007 Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Full-length "Eurydice"...nice from a musical standpoint, but that's not how it was released, nor how it stayed released until now...oh well, who's complaining? Still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Full-length "Eurydice"...nice from a musical standpoint, but that's not how it was released, nor how it stayed released until now...oh well, who's complaining? Still. I know I'm supposed to be digging Live in Tokyo the most out of all the albums on this set, but I've been enjoying the studio albums more -- for some reason, "Live In Tokyo" didn't do anything for me. Strangely enough, I have come to really love their debut album the most, even though Zawinul is quoted in the booklet as saying that they were just trying not to step on each other's toes during those sessions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Live in Tokyo is just uninhibited electric-blowing, like a Miles-less Lost Quintet that kept going to its next logical destination. Very high-energy, but if you don't dig it, you don't dig it. I saw WR about 6-7 times over the years, and the live shows were always and significantly higher energy & more open than the studio albums, so the Tokyo thing is just another example of that, really. There was a taste of it on Body Electric, and that's a concentrated blast if ever there was one, but the whole thing spread out is more "like it was". The two I found myself most "reevaluating" were Sweetnighter & Tale Spinnin', both of which I've always really dug, but have seemed kind of "transitional" in the group's arc. They're still that, but now that it's box set time rather than real time, I find myself enjoying them even more "as is". Looking forward (hoping, that is) to more live compilations along the lines of Live & Unreleased (or whatever it was called), and from the pre- and post- Jaco years. People at the time wondering where Wayne had disappeared to and all that weren't going to the live shows, I'll tell you that for sure. Those guys were always on fire, and Wayne was at the peak of the flames. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 (edited) I also came away with a much deeper appreciation of Miroslav Vitouš, he makes some outstanding contributions on these albums. I found Zawinul's condescending attitude toward Vitouš a little over the top, but this whole question of a "funkier feel" to Weather Report was interesting, and Vitouš' statements that he wasn't into the Funk intriguing -- I guess if you don't have the feel, you don't have the feel. Edited August 22, 2012 by Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Zawinul over the top? About anything? I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! But seriously, as time goes by, Zawinul's "world vision" or whatever you want to call it, has really proven valid, I think. If you don't have it and think you might want to hear it, there;s a 2-CD set of live Zawinul Syndicate material that is about as outstanding as it can be. Totally origianl and organic. While the "jazz world" was militantly resisting the influx of too much of anything outsideits immediate self, Zawinul was in heat looking for exactly that. There were a lot of bumps along the way, but this live stuff shows him eventually getting it right, and splendidly so. As for Vitous, hell he had the gig with Herbie Mann, played on "Philly Dog", locked in with Bruno Carr. So he could if he wanted, but I guess he didn't want to. His prerogative, for sure. ECM called, and he answered. And the digital/sampling age has not passed him by http://miroslavvitous.com/orchestraSamples.shtml If you want to sample traditional orchestral sounds, he's your guy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 MS-007 Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy Hey, some good early Marcus Belgrave on there ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stryker Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 (edited) Live in Tokyo is just uninhibited electric-blowing, like a Miles-less Lost Quintet that kept going to its next logical destination. Very high-energy, but if you don't dig it, you don't dig it. I saw WR about 6-7 times over the years, and the live shows were always and significantly higher energy & more open than the studio albums, so the Tokyo thing is just another example of that, really. There was a taste of it on Body Electric, and that's a concentrated blast if ever there was one, but the whole thing spread out is more "like it was". The two I found myself most "reevaluating" were Sweetnighter & Tale Spinnin', both of which I've always really dug, but have seemed kind of "transitional" in the group's arc. They're still that, but now that it's box set time rather than real time, I find myself enjoying them even more "as is". Looking forward (hoping, that is) to more live compilations along the lines of Live & Unreleased (or whatever it was called), and from the pre- and post- Jaco years. People at the time wondering where Wayne had disappeared to and all that weren't going to the live shows, I'll tell you that for sure. Those guys were always on fire, and Wayne was at the peak of the flames. Don't have time today for a full Weather Report discussion but thought I'd add that in a fire, the two records I'm grabbing first are "Mysterious Traveller" and "Sweetnighter." Never saw the band live, but would have really liked to have heard them in late '72 and '73 -- sometimes the transitions are more thrilling than perhaps the more aesthetically consistent, polished poles on either side. Edited August 22, 2012 by Mark Stryker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Live in Tokyo is just uninhibited electric-blowing, like a Miles-less Lost Quintet that kept going to its next logical destination. Very high-energy, but if you don't dig it, you don't dig it. I saw WR about 6-7 times over the years, and the live shows were always and significantly higher energy & more open than the studio albums, so the Tokyo thing is just another example of that, really. There was a taste of it on Body Electric, and that's a concentrated blast if ever there was one, but the whole thing spread out is more "like it was". Having a listen to Body Electric from this box now, and if it's true that Cecil Taylor approaches the piano as 88 tuned drums, then it's true that this half of an album side shows Weather Report treating their band as a drum ensemble...remarkably percussive music. Everything stems and grows from and out of that. If it's also true that a drum is a woman, then this, dear friends, is a harem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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