Stompin at the Savoy

Absolutely agree. Some may find this perfectly acceptable. Still I would suggest listening on YouTube or Spotify before buying.

Well maybe the CD sounds better (but somehow I doubt it). I thought for a minute about maybe toning it down with an equalizer but nah

You can get this as a hi res download from Presto for $14.50. So how is the book/documentation? Worth the dough? It's a little pricey for 1:26:25 of music. Could almost go on one cd. Sounds like they have deluxe packaging and booklet. I'm listening to this now on spotify. Some good playing but the bass is boomy and I guess amplified with a pickup. So to me it is bass heavy and worse, the amplification erases the natural tone and character of the bass, sounds like an electric bass. There is a general sense of recording level set too high, everything muddy and edging into distortion. Not totally sure I will listen to this more than once, may not buy... Postscript: I cannot even make it through the whole album on spotify! The bass is too overwhelming and ruins it for me. Because of the amplification the bass sustains strongly, so there is no drop off in volume between notes, just a continuous thumping behind the horn and drums. Plus the dynamics generally are bad: everybody (except the piano) playing as loud as they can all at once. Won't be buying this, though these are some of my favorite musicians.

+1

How do you download?

That happened to my cousin Ken. I saw him and asked him why the wan face? "obi wan. Coon obi" was all he managed to croak.

Spotify often does have partial albums or sets (which I assume is because the owners want to leave something to the imagination so you will shell out to get the complete work) but those usually show the omitted items greyed out. Possibly 5&6 have somewhat different ownership and someone said no?

I'm up to disk five now. Really enjoying the set!

Yes. Quincy Jones was quite the jazz whiz kid in the fifties. Time to spin the Mosaic set again. And some of the Basie Roulette Studio set too.

I'm enjoying disk 2. Love all the great stride piano! Very good sound, too. Excellent box set.