king ubu

just ordered both that and the Root/Tanno - nice international shipping charges there, about half the usual ones or even less!

amazon.it has some very good prices for various Universal boxes currently ... Colin Davis - Berlioz: Complete Orchestral & Sacred Works - € 27.99 The Art of Wolfgang Sawallisch - € 26.99 Böhm - The Symphonies - € 33.99 Eugen Jochum - The Symphonies - € 27.71 The Art of Daniel Barenboim - € 25.99 The Art of Riccardo Chailly - € 25.99 There are more ... and with some of 'em you get an additional 20% discount if you order two items from the list of items on which you get 20% when you order two items from the list of items on which you get 20% when you order two items from the list of items on which you get 20% when you order two items from the list of items on which you get 20% when you order two items from the list of items ... dig?

Thanks for passing by and sharing, Eric! Wish I had that Capozzoli's disc ... got to look for it, grabbed three of them by others (Bill Perkins, Don Menza, Gabe Baltazar/Eddie Bert) from the bins many years ago. Guess the Root/Tanno wasn't there as I'm quite sure I was hip to Root by then.

surprise slide inside? uhm, not sure I wanna know ....

50s and 60s ... but as far as live music goes, it's the present, of course

Thanks a lot!

The Brownie is, I can confirm that - has been confirmed here as well, I think, but I know from a few others (on another discussion board) who bought it. Which Ellington do you mean, the "Early Ellington", I presume? Looks like with their own (i.e. GRP/Verve/Universal) sets they do include full booklets when they're not as huge as the ones of the original Lady Day or Bud Powell or Bill Evans boxes ... it seems the Keith Jarrett box also contains the liner notes and photos of the original two smaller sets.

r.i.p. Gabo

Happy Birthday!

Thanks guys! Sorry the site was offline, but I thought on a royal party that was only fitting

Thanks a lot, everyone!

more Bill Evans ... not too familiar with this box set so far, but I'm lovin' it!

lotsa music from the rusty sucker - no sonic issues to my lousy ears, whatsoever ... been listening to the sessions that ended up (partly) on the albums "Empathy", the Gary McFarland album, "Trio 64", "Stan Getz & Bill Evans", "The Bill Evans Trio Live", "Trio '65", "Bill Evans Trio at Town Hall Volume One", and now I'm into the "California Here I Come" material. Will wrap it up with "At Montreux Jazz Festival" in the end.

Almost, but not quite

Well, they could do lotsa bit boxes using Blue Note, ex Fantasy and other stuff ... they could even group all official Mogie albums in one place now ... not sure any of it will happen though. While I don't mind big boxes with classical, where I tend to listen work- or artist-based, I feel the notion of albums in jazz isn't that a bad one, after all ... sure, I love chronological listening and complete sessions and stuff, but still so much of the music at debate here has been around on single discs and so many of us bought so many of 'em ... is there really much of a market? I'd not go for a Jug box even if the one or two I still miss aren't around on CD or would cost more than usual. Just makes no sense, really. And it seems the market is so much smaller (compared to classical) that "but there are so many newbies who don't have the music" is likely no point ... not sure today's newbies want cheapo box-sets anyway.

this is the 4 CD set, covering some 1953/54 concerts - incomplete as well, but as I wouldn't know where to find the music elsewhere, I got it ... I'm sure glad I never tried holding my breath for Verve/PolyGram/Universal bringing out the sequel(s) to their great 44-49 box - me face would shimmer in many colours now if I had

Well, they could just go further down the Universal Italy road ... there's loads of Fantasy (Prestige, Riverside, Contemporary ...) material they could bundle (loads, really ... Blue Mitchell, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Jack McDuff, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Don Patterson, Teddy Edwards, Shelly Manne ...) but then would that sell? When you see numbers, usually they say jazz is selling only a very small percentage of the numbers classical is, so ... Anyway, EMI boxes they could revive (if that's all they do) aren't that many ... Herbie Hancock and Dexter Gordon (both 6CD set) come to mind. But if they want to re-package, there'd be some names I'd expect to sell somewhat easier than the ones just mentioned: Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Freddie Hubbard ... they could also try Hank Mobley, Bobby Hutcherson and a few more, of course. And they could do a Larry Young box

wow, very good

sounds like, indeed don't know a lot of his music yet, but what I've heard I enjoy a lot! way too young to go

Didn't pre order, yet. I did notice on the amazon.co.uk site a picture of possible liner notes in Korean was added. Really? None of that with the French set ... I think the Korean sets so far all were coming from EMI (now Warner)? And all the ones I wanted (the violinists ... Martzy, Morini, de Vito, and just a few weeks back also Ferras) were rather expensive (each of them around 100$) and not that widely available (I bought from prestoclassical and JPC, the Ferras for instance is not available through amazon itself, or was not when I looked). Anyway, amazon.it just sent me a mail stating the shipping date for the Russian box might be between April 18 and 28.

I think there's some info about them in the booklet of the Hawkins Keynote 4CD set ... there are plenty of "overtime" tracks there - glorious stuff!

Ordered the Russian box by Ansermet, too - but it's already out of stock and they don't even have a date yet - but the price went down the decisive couple of euros (preventing the custom n*zis from kicking in), so I'll just wait patiently

earlier discs 1-3 of the Herbie, now discs 3-4 of the Miles