The Complete Granz Jam Sessions question

[sjarrell]

I just got this used, and it has a metal frame box lid, card interior slipcase full of digipaks/discs, but no box bottom. Seems an odd way to package a set. Am I missing half of the actual box?

[Big Al]

Nope; you have everything. This would be what some might refer to as "typical Verve packaging."

[sjarrell]

Thanks, Al. Once held together by shrinkwrap, now it's just a fancy backless frame.

Does this one win the prize for weird packaging or what? I don't think I've ever held anything that seemed this incomplete.

[Big Al]

Don't know.... I never owned the Bill Evans Verve box, so I couldn't tell ya.

[Bright Moments]

Nope; you have everything. This would be what some might refer to as "typical Verve packaging."

[Ted O'Reilly]

Don't know.... I never owned the Bill Evans Verve box, so I couldn't tell ya.

I do own that box, and have never opened it...it's still in the shrinkwrap, and it's rusting nevertheless. I have on single discs most of what I want to hear frequently, so it just sits there, patiently decaying. (But not the music!)

I'm sure there are other examples of designer-gone-wild, and one would have to include a CD (now forgotten title) I once had that was in a very tiny artistic font, printed black on navy blue. Outdoors, in full sunlight at noon on June 21 it might have been possible to read it, IF you were a Philadelphia lawyer...