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The Huss Charles issue definitely made him out to be not much of a detective! 🙄

Because he "detected" that there was a market for it even if the decision to shelve it originally (and not release it during the heyday of reissue programs) was more than a defensible one.

Liner notes, yes. The OJC releases reverted to the original liners notes which was often a loss.

I am with Kevin-I like most of the stuff that Zev has been involved with. But, thinking of Blakey's "Just Coolin" date, how can you call him a "Detective" when the session is listed on discographies?

A friend's band is playing it, so at least I know that much!

Perhaps more accurately, the majority of the lineup will be announced.

I believe I had five or six "twofers" by Miles Davis. I was first exposed to "The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever" (Bird, Dizzy, Bud, Mingus, Max) through a Milestone twofer. The liner notes were generally excellent. Having first-rate liner notes was a key part of my early jazz education. I too had The 101 Best Jazz Albums--a vital resource.

Recent purchase on LP in part inspired by the recent Clark Terry thread. Great music. I like this way more than I thought I would. Only bad thing is the pressing leans heavy into snaps and crackles. Was this common with Mainstream LPs by chance? I don't have any other Mainstream records, just CDs so just wondering if this is somewhat of a known factor with their vinyl.

https://www.discogs.com/label/847424-Prestige-24000-Series

Same here - these were a huge part of my introduction to the music in the early 1980s. I still have most of them. The liner notes are often very informative and I learned a ton from them (in addition to the Len Lyons books, "The 101 Best Jazz Albums" which recommended a number of 2-fers).

300×300 10.9 KB Count Basie “Basie Roars Again” Verve mono LP I’ll have to dig out the Verve Basie Mosaic set soon, this is a great LP also included in that set, from 1956.

I remember how many twofers I found in used stores as promos, which were the introduction to many artists for me while I was in grad school. Pretty much most of them have been replaced by CDs or boxed sets, although there is the occasional one, like Ben Webster with Joe Zawinul, Travelin' Light, which has bonus tracks not found on later CDs. What drove me nuts was when labels compiled more than two LPs in such sets, leaving out many tracks that I wanted to hear, much like the problem with later Fantasy CDs, which frequently omitted a track or two to squeeze the music onto a single CD.

I have digital versions of this LP in stereo, but this mono Roulette LP has a rich sound of its own that I wanted to hear. Jack Teagarden “Portrait of Mr. T” Don Goldie was an excellent trumpeter and vocalist and is a real asset in the late Teagarden bands. And how cool to have a version of Bix’s “In the Dark”. . . .

I like a lot of the stuff Zev has gotten issued. What I don't like about some of the things I've heard about him is that he (or those who know him) call him the "Jazz Detective", implying that he discovers these sessions that no one else found and puts them out. This is not always the case. Just because something has only been circulating via bootleg tapes doesn't mean that it was "lost" before he heard it.

Erroll Garner “The Complete Concert by the Sea” disc 1 This release continues to fascinate me. I had earlier versions of this acclaimed and extremely popular release, but not only is the complete, twice as long as previously released, concert here, but the extraordinary Plangent Process has been used to TRANSFORM the sound here. And if I had a time machine I’d go back to this performance night and revel in the delight. I am certain that visually Garner is as riveting and involving as the audio material is for me. He was one of a kind and like other great pianists I love to hear he is a master of a musical universe. If you have been familiar with the other editions of this music the transformation of the sound is fascinating.

More awake now, I want to hear a bigger sound. . . . “Duke Ellington: Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973” Lost Recordings/Diavelet cd It took me a while, but I’ve learned to really love “late” Ellington. This one is in excellent sound.

August 16 Ellery Eskelin - 1959

Same here ... 😂 - the "brown papers" were called here "Packpapier" ...

Oh yes, I remember these well and they remain important elements of my collection. I am also among those who started buying quite a few of these soon after the collecting bug got a hold (from 1975-76 onwards in my case). Though probably not the "usual suspects" that others went crazy about. IIRC the first one I ever bought was the one by Blind Lemon Jefferson (talk about lowest of lo-fi to those then youthful ears! ). Its inner sleeves first acquainted me with the concept of those "Milestone Twofers". Those I next remember getting an awful lot of spins here were those by Dizzy Gillespie ("In The Beginning"), Wardell Gray, George Wallington and the "Prestige First Sessions 1949/50" V.A. anthology. But over time I also stocked up heavily on Miles (this mostly was before the OJC facsimile reissues of the individual LPs hit the bins everywhere) and sundry hard boppers. I had become aware of the existence of the Blue Note "brown paper bag" twofers (mentioned by Milestones) early on but they remained outside the affordable price range of my student's purse for a long time. Truth be told, I've been using the term of "twofer" as a generic one for a long time now to encompass the 2-LP sets of other labels, particularly those on RCA Bluebird from the 70s and those on Savoy released in the 80s. Same approach, overall, and always good value for money ...