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getting my first taste ... perfect for tonight (disc one, probably disc two as well afterwards)

I've got the Miles on order now ... guess I'll know more in about a week's time

afternoon and evening, into disc 4 (ending with all the fine Power/Tower material)

meretricious

Not sure ... I only just got it (I'm not saying "got aware", since I might have seen it and forgotten again years ago), but that's indeed one of those about which that thread initially was intended to be about (it got, of course, derailed as well).

missed this in the earlier thread ... I'll ask around, haven't seen/heard this though, so I guess chances are rather slim

Remember this thread? (And look who started it )

just got it ... can help you if you still need it, just drop me a note and I'll tend to it over the weekend!

discs 3-6

last third of disc one and all of disc two ... that is "Dexter Calling", "Landslide" and the one cut from the aborted session with Sonny Stitt

Indeed they did - stuff like their Tubby Hayes box is most welcome. Guess I need the Harriott eventually, too ... granted I'd prefer more Dutton/Vocalion reissues (and hey, some of those might indeed have been surpassed before release by - other - PD reissues ... and hey again, that scenario hurts me when it's about small labels, call me sentimental, but I still think I made a point or two above that remain valid, even if we give the majors the finger, which I'm most ready to do). Not sure, wasn't the Spotlite set around for most of the time? In fact it might still be around:http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000026QCO/ Now for the Savoys ...

I'd even guess they do ... and to flock the dead ol' mare some more, I don't disagree with anything Big Beat Steve says above (partly in reply to me), and I guess he actually knows What I was pointing out is how crappy the rock bottom of these cheapo labels is - and it was my understanding this thread was more about that than the okay to fine reissues often coming from Fresh Sound or Lonehill or others of the kind. I was talking' "27 original albums on 9 discs for 3 eurozlotys" and crappy Definitive boxes (such as the one that prompted this thread) and crappy Membran boxes ... those okay to fine reissues, I assume (I don't have that many of 'em and didn't run checks) don't use MP3 to start with. There's differences between PD labels and the quality of their product, and the mere fact that some of these ARE crap and the fact that I pointed that out does not mean I'm saying the ALL are crap.

Yup, that's why I often buy discs straight from the musician at gigs, whenever I have enough cash on me and they don't ask ridiculous prices, that is ... But re: "if people don't like these products they won't buy them", I think that is oversimplifying it quite a bit, since "these products" stop better product from being produced. Now you can argue "people don't want better product" and maybe you're right. But are wi in such dark times again, really?

That's exactly what I meant re: PD. I don't see a profit-based corporation paying for something they don't have to. Not in this world, not in this time. And that would explain why it's a European reissue (instead of them just re-pressing the old Fantasy box, like they did with a few others, Wes M., Bill E. Riversides, I think? those where high-price editions) that has to be imported elsewhere (and actually shouldn't be sold in the US at all, I guess - but there it goes again ...).

I don't think they leave it at that ... they "improve" by running filters and stuff ... and in the worst case, they use MP3 sources or damaged files (I think the Gigi Gryce 8 albums set has some of those? it was discussed here, a while ago).

But it would be nice if these legitimate thieves were in love with the music a bit more and trying a bit harder to deliver quality stuff, instead of just flunking and pretending in order to get our hard earned money ... my main beef with Definitive is really that they're the worst (at least this side of the pathetic "8 Classic Albums" sets). But as one of our good friends here often says: you get what you pay for

I guess it's essentially just a european scaled-down reissue of the old box ... probably european-only due to PD. And yeah, I guess indeed the new "Chronicle" might be the same.

Here's what it says on the Coltrane box: (P) 2011 © 1991 Fantasy Inc. Prestige Records, Tenth & Parker, Berkley, CA 94710, All Rights Reserved. Made in the EU. LC 15025, Universal - Universal Music Group International.

Happy Birthday!

I just asked my friend - will report back when he replies. He bought the set from jpc.de (upon my recommendation), where they have a Concord blurb (the reduced price has been like that for months, but they say they don't have it in stock ... still worth a try I'd say): http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/John-Coltrane-1926-1967-The-Prestige-Recordings/hnum/1988951

I can ask someone about the Coltrane if no one here has it.

... and almost certainly has! They might have added some MP3 compression in the lineage though ...

Yep, I think that Coltrane isn't coming from Italy, hence the inclusion in the note only. Not sure about the recent "Chronicle" ... I actually plan to get it, but haven't come around so far (I have all or most of the music, but having it in chronological order and in one place would be great). Regarding the Bird set, this was indeed recently reissued for the second time as a cheapo version - here's the link to the offering of the first one (rel. 2005): http://www.amazon.it/Bird-Complete-Verve-Bob-Dylan/dp/B000PMFUSK/ (Not sure what Dylan has to with it) The Pres (rel. 2006) and JATP (rel. 2007) are these: http://www.amazon.it/Complete-Studio-Sessions-One/dp/B000PMFUSU/ http://www.amazon.it/Complete-Jazz-Philharmonic-Verve-1944/dp/B000FDDYQY/ So that was the first chapter, but these seem to have been smaller editions.

No, those were produced by Universal France - Complete Masters by Ella, Billie, Bird, Bechet and Satchmo (though with cut-off-dates in the case of Ella and Bechet, and I guess with Satch, too, though that one I don't have). Here's the thread on those: The dedicated website set up about these is still online, too: http://www.jazzmasters.fr