Stompin at the Savoy

The set arrived this morning and I am listening to the first disk. Great sound quality and relentlessly swinging stuff!

Miles In France 1963 & 1964 - Miles Davis Quintet: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 is now $63.50 at (US) Amazon. Very tempted. I still remember how ecstatic I was upon getting the 2nd Quintet studio albums box set.

There appears to be some question over whether he has actually died or is just in the hospital in bad shape.

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Well have you listened to it on one of the streaming services like youtube or Spotify ? That would be a great way to know if you're going to like it

Yeah I think I remember something like that. There was a limited time reduction. But this is very rare indeed. I think their profit margins are pretty tight on these things.

8 hours! And you do this in atonement for what transgression?

I think I may be one of the faithful but I have recently become more choosy about buying recordings that, if I'm honest with myself, I will probably only listen to once, especially considering all the recordings I have by these players that don't suffer from sound quality issues. Obviously I'm in the minority on this one.

I found a copy of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition for $147 on Discogs and it arrived just now. I liked the Ellington in Order series that Sony launched last year and bought what they put out, except for one volume which was entirely duplicating material in the Mosaic small group and orchestra sets. But they seem to have lost interest in the series. I was also unhappy about the lack of any documentation, even just pages on a website, from the company. Recently I've grown pessimistic about the continuation of Ellington in Order. I came across this nice copy very cheap on Discogs. It was a bit of a surprise getting it because I've never seen the set up close and some of the pics lead me to believe that it was a thick, cd-sized bundle. It turned out to be a Mosaic-like box with a gigantic bound paperback book!

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