Stompin at the Savoy

One time I ordered the Four Freshmen set from a 3rd party seller on Amazon for a pretty good price. What arrived was vol IV thru VI. I explained that they advertised the set but sent a fragment. They investigated and apologised, refunded the money and told me to keep the fragment. I've been on the lookout for other pieces of that box but no dice so far.

$15 per disk is fine if you get all the disks in the set. But almost all these are orphaned pieces of sets, vol III thru V type of thing, one multi-disk jewel case out of several. In that case I guess if I really wanted whatever music was on those volumes, possibly $15 per disk is ok. But generally I steer away from those fragments. Better to plunge a bit and get the full set with booklet and box.

Mostly what he has are fragments of sets. And yeah too expensive for incomplete sets.

You can get it very inexpensively on https://www.abebooks.com/

I started out with about 10 Mingus disks. I just ordered another 13. The message I am getting from this thread is I need another 50 or so, otherwise I'll never 'really' understand Mingus. 😄 I had an discussion/argument with a relative recently about Taylor Swift. I listened to the tracks you mentioned, I said, and it all seems like formula Hollywood pop rock, bubblegum stuff. No solos worth listening to, yatta yatta. You have to listen to several albums before you can appreciate her, I was told. Harrumphf, I thought. Not bloody likely.

I've heard most of this but don't have most of the albums and it has been on my wish list for many years. When you pointed out that it is quite inexpensive nowadays I took a look and bought one on discogs for 37 bux. Might as well get the big, broad outlook since I just went for the 70's box.

I found a lovely copy of this for around the original price and it arrived today. I'm a big fan of Benny Golson but somehow I don't have many albums under his name. Same with Farmer. I checked this out on Spotify and here we are... Great music!

I listened to the first couple albums on Spotify. I especially like Don Pullen on piano on these. Some other things I had heard from him were very dissonant, muscular, and far out there. This is much more conventional harmony and more swinging. The price is low and they appear to have packaged them as mini lp covers with the original artwork, which I like. I decided to plunk for the set.

I've been watching "Ridley" on PBS Passport (streaming service for PBS members). This is also playing on broadcast TV in some markets. It's fairly standard detective fare set in Lancashire and Yorkshire Dales but well written and excellent cinematography. There is a musical component - the protagonist is part owner of a "jazz bar". The music is maybe not exactly jazz but there are occasional nice moments.

I also make playlists of the original albums with most of my box sets. I love these big sets but I find them easier to digest in album-sized meals. Albums often undergo versions, expansions, combinations, etc so divvying the set up into albums is often quite a challenging job! Sometimes I don't bother about the albums and just pay attention to the discrete sessions.

I've always liked cannabis but 10 or 15 years back I switched to the type of vaporizing devices which use flowers or hash (ie not those awful black box vape pens with glycerine cartridges, ew!). These heat the material typically with a stream of heated air so that the lighter, more volatile compounds - various cannabinoids and terpenes - vaporize but the temperature is below the level required for combustion. Very little smell emitted and the smell is different from burning cannabis - faint and more like the raw flower smell. I find that I don't like being around when people combust cannabis any more. It's a loud smell and it's smoke and contains nasty stuff like benzine.

My solution for vocals or solos I don't like is fast forward or skip forward. But I want to make that decision myself, not have some idiot who happens to hate trombones or whatever make it.

Desecration.

Me too. I guess I've gotten spoiled with 10-disk Mosaic sets and no commercials.

I listen on Spotify sometimes (when I can't find anything else basically) but the ads can be really jarring! You're listening to some jazz and suddenly there is some commercial pop at a much higher volume.

Well not really free, except in lower res on Spotify or similar. On a site like Qobuz, you can stream if you have some sort of paid membership or you can download for a price.

It's kind of an interesting development. Qobuz claims these are hi resolution files. Presumably that means more detailed than cd quality.

I don't have much experience with rare books but I suspect you will preserve the resale value best by putting it into a plastic envelope and keeping it in a cool, dark place. Amateur attempts at restoration or prevention from further deterioration will likely decrease resale value. My suggestion: photograph the book. You are in effect reading it once and then putting it away.

I have that Patton Select too. Have only listened to it a couple times. Maybe time to spin it again!

https://www.amazon.com/Pepper-Presents-West-Coast-Sessions/dp/B01N2NTGV6

So is this the several volumes of "Art Pepper presents: West Coast Sessions!"? Is there a box with all of them or no?