Ooh, thought of one the other night:
The Complete Impulse! Recordings of Archie Shepp and Marion Brown.
I would at least like to have a Marion Brown select, but imagine a box with all of their respective I! albums....
Sure, but for instance, so is a lot all of the material in the Gerry Mulligan, Shank/Cooper, and Zeitlin sets. It's more a matter of having them in one place with superior sound and good annotation.
Why?
Because I like the MJQ, feel they are underappreciated, and these are (in my opinion) their finest recordings, sparingly available. It would be nice to have them all in one place, properly annotated, etc.
Of all the OOP Mosaics, this is my most sought after. I hope to own it one day, but the $300+ ebay prices have this looking like a relative impossibility. I guess the Collectables will have to do for this lifetime.
There's something very agressive and cavernous in the sound of this RVG that I'm not sure I like. I was wondering if the OJC has a better, drier sound? I love the subtle sound of the OJC of Waldron's The Quest by the same group. Any opinions?
Yeah, what in the world is going on here? I was thinking about maybe keeping an eye out for the Cecil Taylor Candid box, until I saw it fetch well over 300 on ebay. Just wrong. Even the Giuffre box, which is rather ubiquitous is exploding in price. Disappointing.