king ubu Posted June 15, 2011 Report Posted June 15, 2011 The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions - CD1 Quote
king ubu Posted June 15, 2011 Report Posted June 15, 2011 The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions - CD1 Went on with this one... into CD4 by now - great! Quote
king ubu Posted June 15, 2011 Report Posted June 15, 2011 About to finish disc 6 now... plan to play the whole box today! Makes for fantastic listening (though I'm working and not listening attentively... I'm sure it pays off to do that, Stitt seems in great form all through so far!) Quote
Peter Friedman Posted June 17, 2011 Report Posted June 17, 2011 The Complete Columbia J.J. Johnson Small Group Sessions, Disc V Quote
Peter Friedman Posted June 19, 2011 Report Posted June 19, 2011 The Complete Atlantic And EMI Jazz Recordings Of Shorty Rogers , Disc III Quote
Peter Friedman Posted June 19, 2011 Report Posted June 19, 2011 J.J. Johnson Small Group Sessions, Disc VI Quote
golfcrazy1984 Posted June 20, 2011 Report Posted June 20, 2011 Woody Herman Complete Columbia Recordings (great musical and sound quality) and earlier the Artie Shaw set, starting to find value in that set...finally. I'm enjoying the Shaw a lot more with my headphones than my home sound system Quote
jostber Posted June 20, 2011 Report Posted June 20, 2011 Just bought myself the Sam Rivers box. Looking forward to receiving this in July! Quote
ejp626 Posted June 20, 2011 Report Posted June 20, 2011 I'm embarrassed to say I've had the new Ellington set (#248) for about a month and I've not even cracked it open. I'll listen to some of it today, probably starting with the last two discs and working forward. Quote
colinmce Posted June 23, 2011 Report Posted June 23, 2011 The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions - CD1 Went on with this one... into CD4 by now - great! Blargh ... yet another set on my 'bypass' list that I now feel an insatiable urge to own. Quote
golfcrazy1984 Posted June 24, 2011 Report Posted June 24, 2011 The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions - CD1 Went on with this one... into CD4 by now - great! Blargh ... yet another set on my 'bypass' list that I now feel an insatiable urge to own. It is a good boxed set, that I don't regret owning. However, the set is redundant---with that said, it's redundant with Stitt's great playing, supporting cast, etc. It just is the BASICALLY the same thing for 9CD's, a big band session that's OK, and a bunch of blowing sessions. If you just need a cheap Stitt fix, get the recording Sonny Stitt sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio, it's excellent Quote
colinmce Posted June 24, 2011 Report Posted June 24, 2011 Yeah, that's it, keep going ... Basically, that is what I've heard. I do like Sonny, but I see what you're saying. Now I can downgrade my urge to "See what I feel when it hits Running Low" Quote
brownie Posted June 25, 2011 Report Posted June 25, 2011 Curtis Amy Select, disc 2 one of the best Selects Quote
king ubu Posted June 26, 2011 Report Posted June 26, 2011 The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions - CD1 Went on with this one... into CD4 by now - great! Blargh ... yet another set on my 'bypass' list that I now feel an insatiable urge to own. It is a good boxed set, that I don't regret owning. However, the set is redundant---with that said, it's redundant with Stitt's great playing, supporting cast, etc. It just is the BASICALLY the same thing for 9CD's, a big band session that's OK, and a bunch of blowing sessions. If you just need a cheap Stitt fix, get the recording Sonny Stitt sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio, it's excellent Hard to say if one really needs it... Stitt seems to be "on" on almost each an every track here, though, so that's a strong plus. But I've got a whopping 44 Stitt CDs (plenty of them being twofers, making it probably more than 60-70 albums) not counting the Mosaic, so it seems I'm a fan... I prefer his tenor actually, and there's more alto than tenor on the Roost dates, but that didn't bother me, as, again, Stitt's "on" nearly all the time! Anyway, for the casual listener, I guess one or two of the albums with Ammons, the Prestige dates (either just the ole Stitt-Powell-Johnson disc or the 3CD "Stitt's Bits") and the two Cobblestone albums would be the essentials. But with someone like Stitt it's not that easy to pick... whenever he was "on", good music resulted, but little is truly great or even essential, I guess (other than the two Prestige dates with Bud, Curly Russell and Max Roach in support - those should be in every collection). But again, to me, it's all good to great, as I'm a fan! Quote
B. Goren. Posted June 27, 2011 Report Posted June 27, 2011 But again, to me, it's all good to great, as I'm a fan! I tend to agree with you. Quote
brownie Posted June 27, 2011 Report Posted June 27, 2011 The Roy Eldridge Complete Verve box, disc 3 Quote
mellowT Posted June 28, 2011 Report Posted June 28, 2011 Johnny Hodges - Complete Verve Small Group Sessions (1956-61), disc 1 Quote
B. Goren. Posted June 28, 2011 Report Posted June 28, 2011 Disk 3. Cripple Clarence Lofton sounds great! Quote
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