Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[king ubu]

disc four - After Hours at the London House + No Count Sarah

Wonderful music! This box certainly is one of my favorite reissues this year!

[ElginThompson]

Disc 2

Disc 8

[erwbol]

Disc 4

[JohnS]

Discs 2 and 3 yesterday. Now disc 3.

Always amazed by the emotional power of It Never Entered My Mind.

[kh1958]

Wes Montgomery, Movin', The Complete Verve Recordings (Hip O Select)--discs 1 and 2 yesterday, disc 3 today.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Spent most of the day with this

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino)

MG

[jeffcrom]

Spent most of the day with this

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino)

MG

I had not read your post until I clicked on this thread to post that I was listening to this set. Right now I'm on disc three - Blues & Roots, plus alternate takes - but may continue on to other discs.

[sidewinder]

Spent most of the day with this

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino)

MG

How is the presentation of this box set? Presumably the reissue of the original box - I was wondering whether or not they had done a good job or put out a flimsy version.

CD4 - Kenny Graham Afro-Cubists , Tito Burns etc.

Edited December 1, 2013 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Spent most of the day with this

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino)

MG

How is the presentation of this box set? Presumably the reissue of the original box - I was wondering whether or not they had done a good job or put out a flimsy version.

It's a good job. Somewhere above, a couple of months back, there's a comparison with the original box. It seems a few pics may have been missed out, or maybe the print is smaller on the new edition.

MG

[king ubu]

there you go:

[paul secor]

Discs 2 and 3 yesterday. Now disc 3.

Always amazed by the emotional power of It Never Entered My Mind.

I second that. It never grows old.

[jeffcrom]

Monk - Complete Blue Note Recordings; disc 4, the Five Spot set with Coltrane. Kinda amazing.

[B. Goren.]

Disk # 1.

Discs 2 and 3 yesterday. Now disc 3.

Always amazed by the emotional power of It Never Entered My Mind.

I second that. It never grows old.

I've always preferred his Verve recordings over the BN.

[uli]

Discs 2 and 3 yesterday. Now disc 3.

Always amazed by the emotional power of It Never Entered My Mind.

I second that. It never grows old.

I've always preferred his Verve recordings over the BN.

when I am on a Bud binge i listen to both

np

Edited December 4, 2013 by uli

[B. Goren.]

CDs 2 & 3.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Most of this afternoon, so far

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino UK) - now on 'Tonight at noon'. Antibes next.

MG

[jlhoots]

Resonance - 10 CD NotTwo set - now on disc 5

[TedR]

Art Tatum, Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces, disc 1.

Edited December 9, 2013 by TedR

[Christiern]

I threw this little montage together, but it does not give this boxed set justice. There is a beautiful hardcover book with an excellent history and impressively reproduced photos and ads. Even if this music is not what you want to groove with, the beautifully crafted oak box will stun you. I received it yesterday, so I have just begun to explore its content. Here's what's inside—they don't list all of it. For example, I found a great old music short on the fully=loaded USB drive. Amazing. I received this without any letter ot call—a complete surprise, The vinyl discs are fantastic with their sculpted metal labels.

I will be grooving to this box set for a long time to come.

-800 newly-remastered digital tracks on a forged metal USB drive shaped like a Victrola stylus

-200+ fully-restored original ads and images

-6 x 180g LPs w/ hand-engraved metal leaf center labels on burled chestnut vinyl

-Deluxe large-format hardcover art book: 250 pages, narrative with full-color plates

-Encyclopedia-style reference manual: 360 pages, field guide to artists & repertoire

-Handcrafted elements: rich woods, lush upholstery, and custom-forged metal hardware

-Track & Image App: First-of-its-kind music and image player app, allows user management of 800 tracks and 200+ original ads, housed on custom-made USB

[Chuck Nessa]

Wow, someone I like can afford the box.

Maybe I can hope to be in someone's will.

[JohnS]

Most of this afternoon, so far

Charles Mingus - Passions of a man - Atlantic (Rhino UK) - now on 'Tonight at noon'. Antibes next.

MG

Same here, mine arrived at the weekend, made a start on disc one yesterday. Nice to have them in this form.

[king ubu]

Just finished a first listen to this one ... a mixed bag ... some of it is very good ("Chaos", "Mindset", "Tango Palace"), some good ("Notes", the Giuffre, and rather unexpectedly the two guitar albums, the duo with Maslak, too), some is beyond odd ("Sonor") and the one I had the highest hopes for, "Memoirs", I found pretty weak - not bad, but I was hoping for this to be one of Bley's finest, going from the line-up - but that, it is not. At least that's my first impression.

[jlhoots]

Finished the Resonance 10 CD box - now on to the DKV Trio 7 CD NotTwo box - currently on CD #2.

[xybert]

Just finished a first listen to this one ... a mixed bag ... some of it is very good ("Chaos", "Mindset", "Tango Palace"), some good ("Notes", the Giuffre, and rather unexpectedly the two guitar albums, the duo with Maslak, too), some is beyond odd ("Sonor") and the one I had the highest hopes for, "Memoirs", I found pretty weak - not bad, but I was hoping for this to be one of Bley's finest, going from the line-up - but that, it is not. At least that's my first impression.

I haven't got this set, but i do have about 15 of them, and i absolutely love them and champion them as great value, however i've definitely found them to be a mixed bag at times not so much of good and bad as essential and non-essential.

[Leeway]

Just finished a first listen to this one ... a mixed bag ... some of it is very good ("Chaos", "Mindset", "Tango Palace"), some good ("Notes", the Giuffre, and rather unexpectedly the two guitar albums, the duo with Maslak, too), some is beyond odd ("Sonor") and the one I had the highest hopes for, "Memoirs", I found pretty weak - not bad, but I was hoping for this to be one of Bley's finest, going from the line-up - but that, it is not. At least that's my first impression.

I haven't got this set, but i do have about 15 of them, and i absolutely love them and champion them as great value, however i've definitely found them to be a mixed bag at times not so much of good and bad as essential and non-essential.

Since these all bill themselves as remastered, I've been curious about the remastering and how good it happens to be. Is the remastering work subtle or pretty drastic, a big plus or not much of a factor?