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  2. Which Box Sets do You Regret Buying, and Why?

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    24 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

    This is my biggest issue with box sets too.  The alt takes, false starts, and (in some cases) chronological programming often make them difficult to absorb.  My work-around: If the music was originally released in LP format, I usually create MP3 playlists files to re-create the LP sequencing.   

    I like the idea of albums -- something that artists and/or producers assemble and present in a specific way to create an arc or line for the listener.  But that's not what box sets are about.

    Exactly.  If they are going to include the alternates, the least that they could do is break them up so they are not all in a row.  For example, create alternate album using one alternate take of each tune.

    I think the default should be to create a cohesive listening experience.  Placing all of the alternates in chronological order IMO should fall to the listener and not the producer.

  3. Which Box Sets do You Regret Buying, and Why?

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    2 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

    That sounds a lot like The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, or titled something like that. It's the exact same concept. I bet the whole series was designed by the same guy or organization. Though I don't have data to prove this.

    Setting aside the aesthetics and the clumsiness, it also takes up way too much space.  I guess designers in the 1990s didn't envision an era in which listeners would have accumulated as many CDs as they had LPs.  I'm tempted to toss the box and place the discs in flat sleeves.

  4. Anita Kerr, RIP

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    Posted · Edited by Teasing the Korean

    The best group singers of that era had voices without a lot of "color" to them.  This allowed them to blend well.  They would not necessarily top your list of solo singers, if you heard them solo, but they are very effective in group settings.  I would place both Anita Kerr and Bonnie Herman in this category.

  12. COUNT BASIE ZONE....

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    5 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

    The sound of the original recordings is quite good, and 2013 Fresh Sound borrowing/mastering is generally pretty good so I suspect that it will sound nice.

    I have all this material on Mosaic etc. and it's great music.

    Thanks!  Was there a Basie/Hefti Mosaic, or was it part of a larger Basie collection?

  13. COUNT BASIE ZONE....

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    The Fresh Sound Complete Basie/Hefti combines the Verve LP where Basie is Driving the Jaguar, the Roulette album with the atomic blast, and the Roulette album where they are dressed as baseball players.  It also includes several early singles on Clef/Norgran/Mercury, IIRC.

  18. Desert Island: let's sample opinion

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    2 hours ago, Jon King said:

    Okay, let your personal taste and opinion prevail:  I'll start w/ my list, and I choose one of my own DIs here.

    Stan Getz LP, "Dynasty," (Verve '71)  This is one of my chosen few.  It feels like an adventure in its concept and almost stand alone playing.  Four artists' singular group feat and nothing is left to “say.”

    Please share your own.  JK                    

    Is the island tropical?  That will dictate the music that I bring.

  19. Nat King Cole

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    1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    I wonder how many times that song was recorded on Capitol....and how much in royalties Johnny Mercer made from them.

    Hey, if you own a stake in the label and you got good songs, why not?

    Sinatra's version on Come Dance With Me is pretty great too.  That album seems to be overlooked among his Capitol albums.  

  22. Nat King Cole

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    Also, be sure to check out the Snader Transcription trio videos, which were made for the early days of TV if they had to fill time.  The trio by this time included Irving Ashby on guitar and Joe Comfort on bass.  On some videos, they did some weird things with makeup to lighten Cole's complexion, but once you get past that, there is much to like here.  

     

  23. Nat King Cole

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    15 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    and yes, Gordon Jenkins can be an, uh...acquired taste, but this is a good record, period:

    I never heard the album you posted.  I know Love is the Thing.  How does it compare to that one, or to Frank's Where Are You or No One Cares?

  24. Nat King Cole

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    8 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    it's Nat with the Basie band, check it out:

    and yes, Gordon Jenkins can be an, uh...acquired taste, but this is a good record, period:

    This CD set is pretty much indispensable 

    Completely agree with your suggestions.

  25. Nat King Cole

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    Just now, Rabshakeh said:

    Thanks. I was actually looking for the next steps after those two. I had managed to go through life missing After Midnight until now and wanted to know where to go next.

    Well, most of the 1950s Capitol LPs with either Nelson Riddle, Billy May, or Dave Cavanaugh are worthwhile.  You may or may not like the album with Gordon Jenkins, depending on how you feel about Sinatra's albums with Jenkins.  For Nat Cole, things get dicey in the early 1960s with pop stuff like "Ramblin' Rose" and "Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer."  Proceed with caution.

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