Best Live Boxed Set?

[felser]

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I love this and the Mosaic.  Too many candidates.

Edited October 18 by Stompin at the Savoy

[Stonewall15]

On 4/20/2024 at 2:32 PM, Stonewall15 said:

The Complete Crazy Sunday at the Lighthouse. 6-CD set of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars in 1953 released by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute in 2023.

Bump.

[SMB1968]

Complete Cellar Door sessions

[mikeweil]

[BFrank]

[Joe Bip]

Ellington - Fargo

Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note - There are many live recordings of the Standards Trio, but this set is probably my favorite

Charlie Haden - Montreal Tapes

all those Nuits de la Fondation Maeght sets

Anthony Braxton Quartet - Willisau 1991

Cecil Taylor in Berlin 88 (though I've never seen this box set, I collected the individual CD releases)

Cecil Taylor - 2 Ts for a Lovely T (recorded 1990)

 

 

[John L]

What about this one?  It is certainly one of my favorites.  

Edited Wednesday at 06:28 PM by John L

[Rooster_Ties]

Not an actual box set per se...

But the vast amount of live Woody Shaw (leader and co-leader dates) might as well be a box set (of sorts).

Six (6) discs on Highnote alone (if you include the two with Louis Hayes).

Then a bunch further on other labels, some from essentially the exact same sorts of sources as the Highnote material (or at least that one from the "International Trumpet Guild" sure the heck seems like Vol 5 in the Highnote series, in all but name).

Anyway, we've gotten a TON of live Shaw over the last 25 years (the first live Highnote came out in 2000).

And -- though released separately -- collectively it all seems like a live box set of sorts (and not just the Highnotes either -- but all the more recent ones too).  Not every track is a 10/10, but I'd argue the great majority is (at worst) a 7/10, and often better

An embarrassment of riches for Shaw fans -- what is it, a dozen hours?  Closer to 15?

[felser]

11 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Not an actual box set per se...

But the vast amount of live Woody Shaw (leader and co-leader dates) might as well be a box set (of sorts).

Six (6) discs on Highnote alone (if you include the two with Louis Hayes).

Then a bunch further on other labels, some from essentially the exact same sorts of sources as the Highnote material (or at least that one from the "International Trumpet Guild" sure the heck seems like Vol 5 in the Highnote series, in all but name).

Anyway, we've gotten a TON of live Shaw over the last 25 years (the first live Highnote came out in 2000).

And -- though released separately -- collectively it all seems like a live box set of sorts (and not just the Highnotes either -- but all the more recent ones too).  Not every track is a 10/10, but I'd argue the great majority is (at worst) a 7/10, and often better

An embarrassment of riches for Shaw fans -- what is it, a dozen hours?  Closer to 15?

My all-time favorite jazz album:

Edited yesterday at 02:00 AM by felser

[clifford_thornton]

with good reason...

[Rooster_Ties]

14 minutes ago, felser said:

My all-time favorite jazz album:

Berliner Jazztage is my single favorite Woody Shaw album too!! — and absolutely in my top-25 overall (in all of jazz).

Trouble is, my top-25 could be any of 100 different albums on any given day — but it’s a phenomenal album, for the quality of the soloists, and the arranging too. Absolute top-drawer.

[JSngry]

It would be Bird and it has yet to be assembled. Plenty of studio boxes, but live Bird is a whole nother thing.

But there is that bootleg Rollins/Village Gate box that is pretty damn...intense.

[kh1958]

On 10/23/2025 at 10:37 PM, JSngry said:

It would be Bird and it has yet to be assembled. Plenty of studio boxes, but live Bird is a whole nother thing.

 

The Complete Live Recordings of Charlie Parker. Sign me up, even though I think I have most of them.

[JSngry]

6 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

The Complete Live Recordings of Charlie Parker. Sign me up, even though I think I have most of them.

Same, because most is not all, and god only knows what we might have missed in the remote corners of everywhere else!

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I like that Berliner Jazztage record too and often play it.  Hello to the Wind!