Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[Chuck Nessa]

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records - volume one.

Pulled this puppy off the shelf for re-exploring tomorrow.

[BFrank]

[jlhoots]

The Bottle Tapes

[John Tapscott]

[T.D.]

[BFrank]

[GA Russell]

Disc One

1952 - 1954

[GA Russell]

Disc One

I am reading his book A Cure for Gravity, so I opened this up.

[optatio]

Archie Shepp: The Early Albums Collection. Enlightenment EN4CD9165 [UK 2019]

Disc 1

[GA Russell]

Disc Three (the album)

[mikeweil]

Listening through this - I think I will sell it. Many raities, but when will I listen to all of this again? This probably is the third time I pulled zhis from the shelf since I bought it 40 years ago.

https://www.discogs.com/release/11241299-Charlie-Parker-Live-And-Private-Recordings-In-Chronological-Order

Now if this was the Pres bix ...... 

[HutchFan]

On 2/14/2026 at 3:15 PM, GA Russell said:

One of the first box sets I ever bought.  And I still love it!   

 

[clifford_thornton]

Very cool. I am curious why the outliers in price -- is there a special edition of the Bird box?

Edited 21 hours ago by clifford_thornton

[mikeweil]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Very cool. I am curious why the outliers in price -- is there a special edition of the Bird box?

No - just this one edition, limited to 300 copies. Price may vary depending on the condition of the outer box, which is too feeble to hold the weight of 22 LPs. I had to reinforce mine with clear adhesive tape. The selection of recordings is very collector friendly - everything issued on Spotlite, Savoy, Blue Note etc, was left out. 

There was, btw, another 22 LP box with Lester Young live recordings, the Pres Box. I wish I would have been into Pres back then as I was into Bird. Today I would trade my Bird Box for the Pres box any time.

https://www.discogs.com/release/6256072-Lester-Young-Live-And-Private-Recordings-In-Chronological-Order

[clifford_thornton]

good to know. I've never seen either in person, and will "keep an eye out" (though it's unlikely I'll run into them).

[T.D.]

[mikeweil]

Still deep into the Bird Box. 22 LPs is a lot of stuff. Right now I'm at disc 8.

[Big Beat Steve]

14 hours ago, mikeweil said:

No - just this one edition, limited to 300 copies. Price may vary depending on the condition of the outer box, which is too feeble to hold the weight of 22 LPs. I had to reinforce mine with clear adhesive tape. The selection of recordings is very collector friendly - everything issued on Spotlite, Savoy, Blue Note etc, was left out. 

 

It's also collector-friendly that that Discogs entry lists the "orginal" (re)issues of the recordings included in that box. So everyone who has at least a certain number of "live Bird" can check for overlaps and won't feel as bad when he can't or won't afford the Discogs prices.