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Got the "Fearless Leader" Coltrane box for my birthday and played disc one last night. A very nice session, I always liked the "Coltrane" album a lot, that chap Johnny Splawn on trumpet is very nice!

Except for the awkward positioning of the CDs in the box, it's a very good set, beautiful booklet, good liners (including original liners and covers as well).

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Sorry wrong Thread but I was so excited by this box!

Peace

Shaft

Stanley Turrentine "Jubilee Shout".

Great Stuff!

/Shaft

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Duke Ellington The Centennial RCA Edition Disc 2.

This is really a piece of American history. I don't have that much by Ellington before but this is really good I can hear.

Any comments?

/Shaft

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Bill Evans: The Complete Verve Recordings Disk three. Mostly the Stan Getz/Evans sessions.

Disk five this morning -- loud. I can't seem to listen to just one cd for this box set, I always wind up going through about ten in-a-row; it really does have fantastic music.

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Bill Evans: The Complete Verve Recordings Disk three. Mostly the Stan Getz/Evans sessions.

Disk five this morning -- loud. I can't seem to listen to just one cd for this box set, I always wind up going through about ten in-a-row; it really does have fantastic music.

I completely agree with you. What usually makes me stop playing the next disc is the hassle of extracting the CDs from their sleeve in this awful rusty box! The music is just incredible on that set! :tup

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Was listening to Disc 5 of this set yesterday, a set that is far more rewarding than I ever thought would be possible.

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I knew I'd like all of it but the Sessions with Wilbur Harden are just as good, if not better than the Miles Prestige Session, IMHO.

I assume you have the 2CD set on Savoy which collects the other Harden/Coltrane sessions? Terrific music, Harden is great!

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Discs 1-3 of the Evans Verve box (so far, hoping to continue for another few hours). Great stuff! I like "Empathy" very much, "Conversations with Myself" a bit less, but now "Trio '64" is again very nice! (I left out the McFarland for now)

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Now the end of disc 4 with the "Trio Live" sessions - great!

I prefer the sound of this trio over the Peacock/Motian one on "Trio '64", can't say why, but Israels/Bunker is one of my favourite Evans trios.

The date with Getz is alright, but this is an instant where I could happily live without some of the bits included in the box. Elvin is interesting, though!

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:DCity

I'm on a Sonny Rollins kick: Silver City & Complete Prestige Recordings

Clifford Brown: Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz

3 boxes for a lifetime of listening pleasure

Peace,

Jeff T aka Blue Trane fka poetrylover 3

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