ghost of miles

Much appreciation for this detailed write-up, and I also agree that the entire package is pretty much a must-have for anybody who's a fan of these recordings. Ricky Riccardi did a great job with the notes (really looking forward to his final Armstrong biography volume, which comes out in February and covers this period of Armstrong's life and career).

To my untrained ears it is an improvement over the Off The Record set, which itself was quite an improvement over previous issues. A relatively new board member has a much more detailed analysis here.

Burning Ambulance just posted this list to their Bluesky account. A good overview! 50 best jazz albums of 1974

Here’s a Bluesky jazz starter pack that I created: Birth of the Blue: Jazz on Bluesky V. 1

That's a fave of mine from the Atlantic period. Right now:

Co-sign, love that early Ellington set. Pulling it off the shelf for another visit. Playing now:

Thanks so much—I have that anthology and will dig it out. Seems as if perhaps Verve was testing the waters for a line of fusion-era releases? (Perhaps as a counterpart to the generally more-straightahead Take 2 series.)

Back of the CD seems to indicate this is part of a “Verve Chronicles” series. Was there such a thing, akin to their Take2 line? And if so, were there any other releases? I’ve done some Google searching but haven’t been able to turn up anything yet.

Spoiled rotten this week between the Tyner/Henderson and this one:

He would have been a great guest on Piano Jazz (which iirc didn't start production until after his illness and death).

As part of the Columbia Albums 1971-75 set:

One of my favorite box sets of any genre. Congrats on scoring a copy!

Up today for Paul Desmond’s centennial: After Brubeck: Paul Desmond in the 1970s

Yawn indeed—he was a landslide unanimous winner, first Yankee to do that since Mickey Mantle after his triple-crown 1956 season. Bobby Witt Jr (who’ll win one himself, sooner rather than later) was a unanimous pick for second place. Ohtani was a unanimous pick as well on the NL side and becomes the twelfth player in MLB to win three times, and only the second to win in each league (preceded by Frank Robinson).

This Rhino set covers the early 1940s through the early 1970s fairly well across 6 CDs: The R & B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues Viewpoint from one label: The King R & B Box Set The Okeh Rhythm & Blues Story 1949-1957

Followed you back! ...and you as well, mjazzg. I'm going to try to put together a Bluesky starter pack for jazz fans, but in the meantime, Nate Chinen has one up.

Anybody else here on Bluesky? It's really begun to take off again over the past couple of weeks. I joined a few days ago (davidbrentjohnson.bsky.social) and am trying to connect with more jazz folks. Mark Stryker's there now, along with Nate Chinen and Ethan Iverson, but I haven't seen a large migration yet of musicians, writers, fans, etc.

Roughly discs 7/8-11, I’d say.

Ouch--those are some painful omissions. Agree with the hope for a future set covering them, especially since I'm not sure how much of that material ever emerged on legit CD releases in the 1990s and 2000s.

Man, I was so thrilled to pick up that compilation when it came out in 1995. I’ve hung on to it even after getting the Lester Young Mosaic that makes it redundant (iirc).

That was my 1990s introduction, via the CD version. I remember being thrilled to find a Kind Of Blue "prequel" session, as it were.