gmonahan

I have 96 sets, 91 on cd, 5 on LP (including Monk on Blue Note, which dates me!). There's been a bit of a gap, hasn't there, between sets? The Ellington small groups set isn't due until November, and the Gillespie came out, when, in the spring?

I've been reading this thread with interest, and I'd appreciate some info if anybody has it on the difference between the older "piano box" issue and the newer "standard box" issue. *Is* the box the only difference? Does the newer box include the Lomax book, etc.? Also, is one version "unexpurgated" as one site rather bizarrely put it, and one set possibly not?! THAT would be weird! Greg M.

I just came across this thread. Sorry for coming in after everybody may have left the room, but I really love this series. What I *didn't* know until I read the posts is that there was a 102 (Django Reinhardt, Place de Brouckère). I thought I had all of 'em! For the sake of the hopeless completist, there are three 2-cd "Hor-série" out there. Posters have already mentioned Sacha Distel, "Jazz Guitarist" (01) and Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, "Fohrenbach French Sound" (03) But there's also number 02: Bill Coleman, "The Complete Philips Recordings." And for the truly hopeless among us (like me for instance ), they also issued a Sampler cd with a cool cd-sized catalogue. The sampler does have one track by Bill Coleman, a version of St. Louis Blues at 8:26 which *may* be an alternate to the one on the Coleman 2-cd set, which is 9:02. Or, they're the same, and the timings are off!