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I am looking for very early Tango (and Milonga, Candombe, etc.) recordings--before 1920, and the earlier the better. Things like acoustic recordings of Francisco Canaro and Roberto Firpo would make me very happy. The best I've found so far is this MP3 album: http://www.amazon.com/History-Tango-Anthology-Vintage-Recordings/dp/B0033IARBI/ The other titles in that series aren't quite early enough for my taste. Anyone happen to have recommendations for recordings to seek out?

FWIW, I bought a big boxed set (the two big Gitanes Jazz in Paris sets, all 100 CDs) from endofcommon about a year ago. No problems.

Damn--you beat me to this one! Hah, well, it looks like DemonDuck made the right decision and decided to get both for himself.

Get both, definitely. (And if you don't want the Art Hodes, I'll gladly take it off your hands!)

O.K.! Anyone up for Volume 1? (It really is a good set.)

If you're willing to split up the Stax/Volt sets I am interested in Volume 2.

Very good set. Now out of print (very quickly went from released to out of print, the estate dropped its deal with Concord). . . not easy to find. Quickly? blick of a freaking eye! I missed it originally, too, but I just found a copy for $60 (including tax and shipping) on J&R! They claim it's in stock (still), so if you missed it and are kicking yourself...

Will that have anything that those two volumes on GHB didn't? I thought those were complete.

"Plain Old Blues"? A little googlification on that one gave me several links to copies on vinyl (starting at $8 + shipping, on amazon, even!), as well as some legally more dubious options. No CDs, though.

I recommend the Duke Brunswick/Columbia/Master set. I don't have any of the others, though, so... (FWIW: the Parker and Gillespie are simply not my thing, the JATP I have the same misgivings about that you have, and the Hawkins duplicates a lot of what I have elsewhere.) If you have a slight aversion to big band, and if you don't own it yet, the Mosaic Duke Variety/Vocalion/Okeh small group set is a good one to consider, too. I prefer it to the big band set. It's a little more manageable in size--I can fit it all in my head, almost--and it's a little more varied in tone. They're both brilliant, though. While we're talking Ellington: The sound/the mastering/the whatever has never been to my liking, but the Blanton-Webster stuff is from the right period, incredibly important, and damn' fun. I don't really know why many of the recordings sound so poor--even on legit releases like the RCA Centennial set. The good news is that you can pick up the "Never No Lament" set cheaply as MP3s from Amazon. Other things that come to mind are the Bechet Mosaic Select (the collection is not terribly coherent, but it is all fantastic music), the recent Armstrong Mosaic, and the Frémaux Armstrong series. The latter is kind of a box set if you get a bunch of them, right?

Thanks! I made it to Andra Jazz, and it was excellent. I found ten or so discs, mostly 40's Swedish things with a few newer (70's and 80's) recordings by Bent Persson.

Don't mean to derail the thread, but am curious: what does "seasoned" mean? I don't know much about audio hardware, and casual googlification did not enlighten me.

*bump* Any new advice, seven years later? Any used CD stores with lots of pre-WWII jazz? I can dream, right? One thing I plan to look for are Gösta Hägglöf's releases. I have most of the Ambassador ones, but none on the other labels.

Ah, thanks! It's nice to put a face to a name. I knew Rutherford from 40's Basie, but didn't realise this was him.

That's a great little scene! I didn't remember who was in it, but youtube to the rescue: looks like Jo Jones on drums.

In perusing the booklet for the Hip-O Chuck Berry "Johnny B. Goode: His Complete '50s Chess Masters" set, I learned something interesting. Check out the (possible) personnel for the May or June 1956 session at the Camel Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party: "Possibly: Count Basie (p), Eddie Jones (b), Sonny Payne (d), Wendall Culley or Reunald Jones or Thad Jones or Joe Newman (tp)" Awesome! I'll have to take the writer's word for it that there's a piano and a trumpet in there. All I hear are electric guitar and some drums.

Boxes arrived, and am listening to the second disc (Louis Armstrong, Best Live Concert, part 2) right now! Thanks!

It's threads like this that remind me I should log in every five minutes... Congrats, sidewinder! Now, you don't happen to have the Edmond Hall/Johnson/de Paris or the Art Hodes or the George Lewis sets, do you? Or the Roulette Basie studio one, for that matter.

Where can you buy lossless downloads? Because...I want those! My link Thanks!

Where can you buy lossless downloads? Because...I want those!

Neat! Looking forward to hearing these. The first thing I thought of when I read this was the Ladd's Black Aces session, also with Phil Napoleon and Signorelli, and also from 1922. Given the overlap in probable personnel, I assume it's similar. Is it, Jeff?

Best of luck! I have both the Peterson and the HRS. I recommend both highly. The latter is one of my favourites.

Female: 1. Ella 2. Bessie (blues counts, right?) 3. Heartbreak for number 3: Nina Simone? Billie Holiday? Lavern Baker, just for that wonderful Bessie Smith cover album she did? Baby Cox for just those four sides she made with Ellington? I have no idea. Male: 1. Louis 2. Jimmy Rushing 3. Similar trouble as with the women. Bing? Teagarden? ...

I'd be all over some of these if they were on CD, but I'm really trying not to get more vinyl. (I find I just never play it.) Good luck on the sale! It's all great stuff, so I'm sure it'll get picked up.

That Braggin' in Brass collection is excellent. Grab it!