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Good luck! Will jump in in a week or two as well!

I prefer Ronnie

(did Storyville ever care to fix the unlistenable Boswell Sisters set?)

Yeah, the Rivers is effin' amazin'!

Got the Ross box today ... darn customs kept it from arriving for about ten days! Had a first look at the booklet - can't seem to find who wrote all the stuff about the sonatas - anyone knows?

I thought of him each time I opened this thread ... he can swing like mo-fo if he's in the right mood and has the right guys with him (Joey Baron, Idris Muhammad), but he often just plays nicely without grabbing my attention much.

several images in the first posts have vanished, not sure if these were among them: And what's this about Monk (the Prestige album)? It says Reid Miles on the cover usually!

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... And it's darn great! I gave it a listen now, almost finished it in one sitting, couldn't stop (only sleep made me, somewhere into the fifth disc, past 3 a.m.)

Yes indeed! Stay well, Mr. Jarman! Thanks a lot for all the music!

Is Leo and his scrapbook referenced there, too?

Big or not, you guessed it. Sorry, I just was afraid I might have missed some box (is that some kind of disease, fear of having missed a jazz box set? )

Is everybody (Allen and J.A.W.) talking of the Sony Hot Fives and Hot Sevens set? Wasn't that big, just four discs ...

Many thanks for the additional bits of information, Ricky! Ignunt me asks though: which big 2000 Sony box?

YOWZAH! Wonderful!

All the best, Dan! :party:

No need, it seems - see post #44 above! (I've got the old edition of that geat Stadler album spread on two CDs and it's several minutes short of 80 minutes ... there were days when commercial discs couldn't hold more than 74 or later 78 or something minutes ... nowadays, they go up to 81 or 02 minutes - you can do that with CDRs, too, if you use the overburn function ... but I have no clue if that might diminish life expectancy ... I don't do much burning any more these days)

It's kinda weird, I tried ... but yeah, while I can hear things I like here and there, subtle moments of beauty, so to speak ... I can generally agree with what brownie said, I guess

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. Damn! Had no idea! Seems impossible to find, what a pity! (All these "estates" ought to be shut down!) Struck lucky ... or rather tried my luck and went to see if the local disgusting used-to-be-discounter (the strategy of these darn chains is to be discounter until all others are closed down, and then the prices go up to regular crazy swiss level) still had the copy I remembered seing there, months ago ... and yes it was, and a wonderfully presented set this is! Looking forward to exploring the music (of which very, very little shall be familiar, I think).

Gave it a first spin yesterday - and indeed it's excellent! Not sure about TOOM, but it's definitively better than "Modern Times", which again was better than the last one ... but I love "Love and Theft", and the new one to me sounds more like a continuation, so it's more of a comparison point to me than TOOM (which I absolutely love, btw, I think a wee bit more than "Love and Theft").

Yeah, got the Waldrons (they're in that box of sardines) and the Ibrahim albums - fine player! He also did one with Rhoda Scott: (Ford is on one, Person on the other disc - no battles) Several of the albums mentioned will be put onto my shopping list!

Melis has three albums - enough for a box (see Lester Bowie). http://www.camjazz.com/s/artist/view/id/1508/ Spearman has even more - and that would be one hell of a powerful box, judged on the two I know (Mystery Project, Smokehouse). http://www.camjazz.com/s/artist/view/id/1000/

I'm glad to be proven wrong on Acrobat! But the OP set I've got is plainest boot (which I did expect, so all's fine) and the Jazz Couriers looks like cheapest crap (which was a let-down as it was my first Acrobat release and I quickly adjusted expectations )

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. Damn! Had no idea! Seems impossible to find, what a pity! (All these "estates" ought to be shut down!)

I've heard bits from it ... pity this great series is usually so darn expensive! As for Acrobat ... I'd be extremly astonished if they'd release even just a burp that's not been out on CD somewhere else. Shabby label, alas, but some attractive offerings (I've got a Jazz Couriers disc and an Oscar Peterson 3CD set).