johnnyv

Great, thank you, Veteran Groover, for pointing out Post #68! I missed all that. Good to know OTR and FI are both complete on the King Oliver stuff. And with all the details you posted regarding "complete-ness", I guess really what I'm searching for now is evaluation of sound quality, mainly regarding the FI sets. Especially with these older recordings, anyone's idea of "processing" to clean them up, well, it's a fine line between brilliant and disasterous. So yes, just in terms of sound quality, has anyone compared the Fremeaux sets to other "challengers"? Say, FI vs. OTR for King Oliver, FI vs. JSP for Hot 5s and 7s, etc. Is Fremeaux doing a good job on the sound quality?

Hi everyone, first time poster here (thanks, Jim!) Question about Louis and the King Oliver material. Has anyone ever compared the sound quality of the "Off The Record" versions versus the Integrale vol. 1 versions? I see in a post above that neither one is truly "complete", but they both get pretty close, and I've decided to embark on bullding a complete Louis Armstrong collection; it seems one of these two is the way to go. Might as well start at the beginning, eh? So yeah, Off The Record, Integrale vol. 1, or other? Really, sound quality is my number one concern, followed close second by "complete-ness". Opinions?