J.A.W.

They charged me for the Stitt set yesterday. Maybe they will deliver this time...

Wasn't that on Warner Brothers? Yep, Amandla was a Warner Bros. album, so it's not included in the Sony set.

I agree, it's a shame they decided to leave off Helen Forrest's vocals, though I can understand their reasoning. Can anyone recommend a good Forrest/Shaw CD or CD-set? I'm going to get the Mosaic, but have the same query as J.A.W. re: a good Forrest/Shaw CD. There's a lot of excellent Forrest/Shaw on the live Hindsight box KING OF THE CLARINET (which any fan of pre-WWII Shaw should get anyway), but I'd love to find a decent comp of the studio sides. The Mosaic is on my list for later this year. Meanwhile, I got the 2001 Reader's Digest Artie Shaw/Helen Forrest 2CD-set on Amazon. I hope it'll be worthwhile, with lots of Forrest, and I also hope they didn't mess up the mastering.

I agree, it's a shame they decided to leave off Helen Forrest's vocals, though I can understand their reasoning. Can anyone recommend a good Forrest/Shaw CD or CD-set?

The Artie Shaw Mosaic can now be pre-ordered. Shaw box discography

Maybe they finally got some stock - anyway, I've re-ordered it; wait and see...

The Parlan set's gone again.

Only two of those (South Side Soul and Mr Soul) have been reissued on (now OOP) Original Jazz Classics CDs. As kh1958 noted in post #2, they're available from sellers on Amazon.

I was wondering about that too. I haven't read the whole thread, but all I've recently seen were posts about the Stitt set being unavailable.

Just in case you're thinking about getting the Burrell somewhere else, it doesn't have the extra tracks that are on the individual Original Jazz Classics CD reissues.

Actually I'm encouraged by this. I've hoped they'd go back to some of the late Fantasy ideas on intelligent assembling of reissue material as opposed to just the straight reissues. This is a much more cost-effective and cohesive presentation of the material than the splintered "originals". Yeah, but I think it depends. I would love to see more box sets like the late Fantasys, but not like this. It overblows the Miles/Sonny "partnership" into something that it's not and rehashes well-worn material that is best served by the "originals". What I would like to see is something like a complete Dolphy Five Spot set, a Jaki Byard or Booker Ervin or Teddy Charles or Shelly Manne set. This suggests to me that they're only interested in rehashing the "hits" as opposed to digging deeper into the catalogue to collate worthy material intelligently. But maybe you're right, maybe it's a good sign. Anything is better than more Essentials. I second the suggestions above, especially the Dolphy Five Spot and Booker Ervin sets. A set with the Red Garland quintet sessions that produced the individual albums All Mornin' Long, Dig It!, High Pressure and Soul Junction would also be nice.

My "hope" turned out to be short lived. I got a cancellation notice, and an assurance that my credit card charge would be refunded. That confirms my impression that they don't know what they're doing at Oldies.com. They charged me twice for something else last week and refunded the overcharge after I had complained. They're making a mess of things

I ordered 1 copy of the Stitt set on 8 July, and just got an email saying they weren't able to fulfill my order and were cancelling it today. Curious they can fulfill your order of 4 copies so quickly. edit - Spoke with 2-3 people from Oldies since this post on the phone, and one guy told me that my order was already going out today, despite the cancellation email. I guess I'll believe it when I see it. I also ordered a copy of the Stitt set on July 8 and got a cancellation e-mail yesterday. Today Oldies.com's customer service manager told me they had cancelled my order because they couldn't fill it. They have their priorities mixed up; cancelling earlier orders while filling a later one for the same set isn't my idea of fair play

Oh boy. And George Russell around the same time, Bill Finegan (my friend who I sorely miss) last year. I guess even the greatest of shows have to have final curtains...... No, not around the same time - Billy May died on January 22, 2004. As was mentioned in post #9, this thread is 5 years old.

Very sad news (again...)

Why not just avoid it if it's that painful? Who says it's painful? I didn't. But I'll follow your advice and ignore threads like this.

As far as I know they do still have a few booklets from OOP sets, and they are selling them for $20 each. No downloads.

Riddle solved. Why not close this thread?

Quite.

I think it's keyword spamming, people searching eBay for "mini LP" will see this one Hey, some of those sonic 'masterpieces' command big bucks these days!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/CLIFFORD-JORDAN-CLIFF-...id=p3286.c0.m14

Please set me wise, Bev (I did not look up that latter topic right now so I am really starting from "scratch"): Those latter two names do NOT ring a bell with me at all. Imagine me as being somebody very interested not only in U.S. but also European jazz but (as far as collecting in strictly "collector" sense of the word goes) with a major emphasis on the jazz styles, periods and musicians of the early 30s to the early 60s. What would I have missed under these aspects and what glaring non-knowledge would I have to admit to within my key period of historical interest if I did not know these names? I'll be glad to learn and add to my knowledge but could it be that those just were bound to be off my radar, given my key areas of interest? OTOH, whoever (even if not pop-minded at all) could have AVOIDED having heard about Michael Jackson on NUMEROUS occasions throughout the past 30+ years? So this explains that ... Harry Patch and Henry Allingham were the last two British survivors of the World War I battlefields. They died earlier this month. Allingham was also the oldest living man on earth. Harry Patch Henry Allingham

I understand that the remasters from the early 2000s were used, the ones that were done for the TOCJ-6XXX series that came out in those years. They were called "TOCJ24s" on this forum. (edit) Just found this post on the Hoffman forum. This gentleman from Japan wasn't very pleased when he learned whose masterings were used.

Since you're asking, I think you'd have a better chance on eBay with these prices.

You talking about the Lee Morgan set here and made a wee error... 'cause I thought the Mobley was still available for $96? It is.

I understand that the mono box will be released in a numbered limited edition of 10,000. Whether there will be an unlimited number of unnumbered sets or not is not clear, at least not to me