Kevin Bresnahan Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 18 hours ago, Stonewall15 said: Los Angeles Jazz Institute released 6-CD set titled "The Complete Crazy Sunday at the Lighthouse" September 13, 1953. Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars. Many previously unreleased songs. Great notes by Ken Poston. Kinda hard to agree with this when this box is impossible to hear. I tried to join IAJE just to buy this and their website was a mess and I couldn't find any way to buy it. There's not even a download available. Quote
Niko Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 18 minutes ago, mhatta said: They may be a bit short for box sets, but recently released important archives of Japanese jazz. Well worth searching for. Great 3 Complete Sessions 1994 (4 CDs) / Masabumi Kikuchi, Gary Peacock & Masahiko Togashi Complete Tohoku Sessions 1971 (3 CDs) / Kaoru Abe Masayuki Takayanagi: Archive I (5 CDs) Love Dance: Solo Live at Galerie de Café Den Tokyo 1987-1997 / Mototeru Takagi (5 CDs) the others I don't know but I fully agree on the Great 3 set! Quote
colinmce Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 (edited) 9 hours ago, T.D. said: [Italics added] This is true. So many good box sets in free/improv sector that I'm not even qualified to rank them. This is older material but I like it a lot: There's a boatload of Barry Guy box sets, many of which could qualify. I've only scratched the surface of these. No Business has released many good box sets. Won't claim any of these are "best", but I enjoy Jemeel Moondoc Muntu Recordings (although it's a 2009 release and 1 year too old), William Parker Centering, Howard Riley Complete Short Stories and Constant Change, ... Yes, definitely thinking about all those Barry Guy sets on Not Two that sort of kicked this whole thing off. Those are all uniformly excellent. Fundacja Słuchaj also got in on the action and also put out a number of fantastic ones. Some specific favorites: Various - Long Story Short (arguably the best of them all in my book) Ken Vandermark - Resonance Joëlle Léandre – A Woman’s Work Zlatko Kaučič – Diversity Steve Swell - Kanreki: Reflection & Renewal Agustí Fernández – River Tiger Fire The Black Saint/Soul Note boxes were a great line. I would say the Bill Dixon is completely essential, and the Threadgill, Motian, Hill, Lyons, Haden, and Ran Blake ones are also very, very strong bodies of work. The ECM Old & New Masters line was also great in this vein-- the Motian and Arild Andersen ones especially. A few others, randomly: Various - FMP Im Rückblick - In Retrospect Sven-Åke Johansson – Blue For A Moment Sven-Åke Johansson – The 80's Selected Concerts Various - Just Not Cricket! Jürg Frey – Weites Land, Tiefe Zeit, Räume 1 - 8 Bengt Frippe Nordström – Vinyl Box Peter Kowald - Discography I would also second the Hemphill on New World, Wood Flute Songs, Nation Time, Evan Parker, Ahmed, and all the ones on No Business. Edited June 27 by colinmce Quote
tranemonk Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 21 hours ago, jazzbo said: Here's one that I really never expected to see and am so glad that it was conceived and released: I second this!! Probably one of the few Blue Note anything I've bought in the last decade. Quote
mjazzg Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 5 hours ago, Niko said: Yes indeed! All of the TUM WLS boxes add immeasurably to his discography, including the string quartets one Quote
T.D. Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 4 hours ago, Niko said: the others [Nadja Japanese boxes] I don't know but I fully agree on the Great 3 set! I have three of the four (all except Takayanagi) and they're excellent. Non-speakers of Japanese don't get the full "box set experience" because the booklets are in Japanese sans translation. 😉 Quote
romualdo Posted Monday at 08:08 AM Report Posted Monday at 08:08 AM On 6/27/2025 at 9:12 PM, mhatta said: Complete Tohoku Sessions 1971 (3 CDs) / Kaoru Abe +1 for Kaoru & add the Abe 7CD "1970-1973" set on the Japanese Youth label (originally PSF releases) Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted Monday at 09:08 AM Report Posted Monday at 09:08 AM (edited) On 6/26/2025 at 5:05 PM, Face of the Bass said: What sets would you nominate for the best box sets released since, say, 2010. No Mosaic sets please. We have more than enough discussion about them on this board. Thanks! The below 4-CD-plus-book set may not be the bestest recent one in terms of filling a widely-felt gap or objective per-CD value for money but IMO it must rank among the best in terms of "labor of love" without regard to economics and probably slim chances of making money with such a "niche within a niche market" project. The book alone is a magnum opus for such a set and does a good deal to offset the hefty list price. (And I'm not saying this because I luckily scored a copy of this at a giveaway price early this year. ) Edited Monday at 09:13 AM by Big Beat Steve Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted Monday at 04:20 PM Report Posted Monday at 04:20 PM The Tubby Hates was pretty phenomenal. The LP-only box of the Rendell-Carr material was pretty good too. Quote
jazzbo Posted Monday at 05:07 PM Report Posted Monday at 05:07 PM (edited) 47 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said: The Tubby Hates was pretty phenomenal. The LP-only box of the Rendell-Carr material was pretty good too. I have really nice sounding LP Facsimile cds of the five Rendell/Carr releases from Japan released at the same time as the LP box. Edited Monday at 05:08 PM by jazzbo Quote
romualdo Posted Tuesday at 08:29 AM Report Posted Tuesday at 08:29 AM Best of the 40-42 Blanton-Webster Sessions (including the small groups)- 4CD set released in 2024 - best sounding versions so far, exceeding the big box masterings (puts them to shame). Source material being pristine 78s with outstanding SQ. Contains 94 tracks from this period (the RCA box had 140 tracks ie alternate takes etc) Evan Parker's Collected Solos - rerelease by Otoroku - a truly beautiful set contains Saxophone Solos, Monoceros, The Snake Decides, Six of One plus the cassette of extra material from the Saxophone Solo sessions - replicates the original Incus release Quote
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