Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[felser]

On 7/26/2023 at 10:57 PM, ghost of miles said:

That’a a good ‘un! Intro to the booklet by David Baker iirc.

Right now, one of the first jazz box sets I ever bought, along with the Bud Powell Blue Note and Roost set that came out around the same time:

 

Those 90's BN boxes (Monk, Powell, Clifford Brown, and especially the Dex and Hancock) were beautifully executed.  Much prefer them to the Mosaic format.  Wish they had continued in that way.

[ghost of miles]

2 hours ago, felser said:

Those 90's BN boxes (Monk, Powell, Clifford Brown, and especially the Dex and Hancock) were beautifully executed.  Much prefer them to the Mosaic format.  Wish they had continued in that way.

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc). 
 

 

[mikeweil]

[sidewinder]

21 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc). 
 

 

That Plugged Nickel CD set booklet was an absolute travesty. Thank goodness Mosaic didn’t go down that route with their LP version.

[Jim Duckworth]

7 hours ago, mikeweil said:

I find myself returning to this set frequently.  

[gmonahan]

On 7/27/2023 at 7:29 AM, AllenLowe said:

Rich is best listened to in a small group setting, where he seems to have been able to channel his inner Dave Tough and play brilliantly. To my ears, after he became a star and started leading that later big band his work always sounds like "hey look at me."

I absolutely agree that he made himself front and center with the big bands--he was never stricken with a sense of false modesty--but I can forgive it because he drove those bands so relentlessly. That drive is what makes the Pacific Jazz sessions of the sixties so compelling for me.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[Jim Duckworth]

Loving the trio material.

[T.D.]

[Stompin at the Savoy]

This is one of those inexpensive euro-compilations I got the other day.  The sound is acceptable, if a little brittle.  The music is top notch, imo.  Lot's of great players - Stan Getz, Roy Haynes, Hank Jones, Zoot Sims, Mel Lewis and more.  I'm enjoying it!

[Chuck Nessa]

Removed from the shelf for weekend listening. it has been a long time since....

I had most of this on lp in the early '70s.

Edited August 12, 2023 by Chuck Nessa

[mjazzg]

On 8/9/2023 at 2:52 AM, T.D. said:

That's such a good collection, shame about the label, to the best of my knowledge very grey market. I'd love to be corrected

[T.D.]

5 hours ago, mjazzg said:

That's such a good collection, shame about the label, to the best of my knowledge very grey market. I'd love to be corrected

Yes, I'm attracted to all their German festival collections, but this is the only one I bought, before hearing about the label's dodginess. I also own a few single CDs from the label. Very strangely, they feature attractive packaging which is generally not characteristic of boot/pirate outfits.

I have seen a claim to the effect that the collections trace back to the family who legitimately own the master tapes, but I'm not sure how credible that is.

[Chuck Nessa]

with Coleman Hawkins and Dickie Wells.

[ghost of miles]

Disc 2:

[jlhoots]

Splinters: Inclusivity

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[Chuck Nessa]

Fascinating set.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I bought the hi res files for the first volume from Qobuz as a trial of this release/format. The 43 files came to about 1 GB. Large files! Listening to this with LDAP on headphones I'm pretty impressed with the sound.  Very detailed.  When I compare to a cheapo mp3 version I had it's quite startling how much better and more listenable this is. It is also quite a bit better than streaming from Spotify.

Edited August 25, 2023 by Stompin at the Savoy

[T.D.]

[Rabshakeh]

On 7/30/2023 at 5:15 PM, mikeweil said:

 

On 7/31/2023 at 12:36 AM, Jim Duckworth said:

I find myself returning to this set frequently.  

What's the concept? Is it lesser known African American early jazz groups? Or is it more chronological?

I used to love those box sets for early blues and roots etc. They were a huge deal for learning about that stuff, even if I tended to stick what I liked on a comp.

But in those CD buying days I was not listening to early jazz at all. I missed out. I see it is streamable.

[Niko]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

 

What's the concept? Is it lesser known African American early jazz groups? Or is it more chronological?

I used to love those box sets for early blues and roots etc. They were a huge deal for learning about that stuff, even if I tended to stick what I liked on a comp.

But in those CD buying days I was not listening to early jazz at all. I missed out. I see it is streamable.

Some amazing sessions in there like the Jones-Collins or Sam Morgan

[John L]

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

 

What's the concept? Is it lesser known African American early jazz groups? Or is it more chronological?

I used to love those box sets for early blues and roots etc. They were a huge deal for learning about that stuff, even if I tended to stick what I liked on a comp.

But in those CD buying days I was not listening to early jazz at all. I missed out. I see it is streamable.

The concept would seem to be, first, all of the 20s and early 30s recordings of New Orleans black jazz bands done in the city of New Orleans + early recordings by black New Orleans musicians and bands done elsewhere that avoid the most recorded/reissued artists like Morton, Oliver, and Armstrong.  

Edited August 27, 2023 by John L

[Stompin at the Savoy]

The set is not expensive and I picked one up after reading Jim Duckworth's recommendation.  I've been listening to it.  Good stuff!

[Chuck Nessa]

On 7/30/2023 at 12:15 PM, mikeweil said:

I have all but 4 titles (Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight) on other collections. Great stuff.