colinmce

Further info on the Ra titles:

Is does strike me as only scarcely possible. For one, it's unclear how he would be in someone like Kenny Dorham's orbit at that time, and it's just in the timeframe of his last recordings for several years. Guess we'll see what kind of documentation they have to support it. (I also think it would be immediately evident if it was him playing)

Very intrigued by Denis Charles on that Dorham set.

Would be great if this put us one step close to the Cecil Taylor Fondation Maeght set being remastered & issued on CD

Now we're talkin'

Fully agree. I would love to see the enter COTW discography in a CD box set with good notation. Wouldn't end up being that large, maybe 5-6 discs.

Don't sleep on these if you want them. I didn't manage to get a copy of the Lyons and it looks like it's not really around anymore. I can survive, I have pretty much all the free jazz titles save a couple. I would be very interested in the Frank Wright on CD though.

Filles is a favorite. Miles in The Sky is the one that never really held together for me.

It adds most of the tracks from the second Revelation LP. They removed two solo bass tracks, so if you're a fan of Chuck Domanico's playing on there it's worth tracking the original vinyl down.

Sun Song and Sound of Joy on Delmark CD. both possibly out of print technically, but not hard to find, and not expensive.

I get the sense from the release that the sampler is just a teaser and not indicative of future releases being digital-only.

This seems very promising. So far SE reissues have been mostly vinyl-only or from P-Vine, and absurdly expensive either way. Mack Ave does CDs, and very affordable ones to boot.

Generally, yes, though you have to be patient sometimes. I find this applies pretty much only to the 80s-2000s sets. The more recent ones, from the last 15 years or so, still go for list price and higher. The Braxton and Threadgill sets are still very high in demand. The classic jazz sets they did in the 2010s (Hawk, Pres/Basie, Hines, Webb/Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Condon/Freeman etc) are still very expensive. None of these seemed to last very long, and I think they pressed far, far fewer than they did of the older ones from the heyday of the CD era.

Nothing in print as far as I know. In the years since this thread was started the RCA material has come out piecemeal on various sets. The old 4xCD RCA box (1997 & 2001 editions) spans 1932-1947 with 2 tracks from 1956 The Complete Masters 1925-45, a 14xCD set on Universal France: https://www.discogs.com/release/9969471-Louis-Armstrong-The-Complete-Masters-1925-45 The Okeh, Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings - 1925-1933, a 10xCD box set on Sony: https://www.discogs.com/release/6023663-Louis-Armstrong-The-Okeh-Columbia-RCA-Victor-Recordings-1925-1933 The Fremeaux & Associates Integrale series of 3xCD sets than runs from the beginning up through 1949 and contains most/all of his recorded material during that span: https://www.discogs.com/label/1533003-Intégrale-Louis-Armstrong

Both of the BPA discs with Lyle are amazing, but I might say the one with Jaap Blonk is even better.