Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[ghost of miles]

Birthday present from my girlfriend:

[Michael]

Was cranking "Die Like a Dog" box by Peter Brotzmann.   Lots of energy there!

 

 

[soulpope]

On 7.12.2019 at 11:33 PM, ghost of miles said:

Birthday present from my girlfriend:

A goodie indeed ....

[Misterioso]

On 07/12/2019 at 9:33 AM, ghost of miles said:

Birthday present from my girlfriend:

Release of the year for me. Congrats!

[jlhoots]

Joe Henderson: The Milestone Years - CD#7

[Misterioso]

[Bluesnik]

Picked mine up this morning and was told they'd flown away. They only had 2 left. Am with Tubbs in N.Y. now. With Horace Parlan, Eddie Costa on vibes and Clark Terry.

Edited December 20, 2019 by Bluesnik

[BFrank]

Jack DeJohnette Special Edition ECM box

[Justin V]

Disc 2: I've mentioned some great prices for this set on the box-bargain thread because it really is a gem.  I only bought it last year, so I am making up for lost time by spinning it more lately. 

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, BFrank said:

Jack DeJohnette Special Edition ECM box

Excellent music indeed ....

[BFrank]

11 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Excellent music indeed ....

Haven't pulled that out in a while. Forgot how good it was.

[John Tapscott]

[Bob_Bobson]

 

Disc 12 - probably going to work my way backwards through the set today.

[John Tapscott]

[jazzcorner]

[mikeweil]

 

[ghost of miles]

On 12/20/2019 at 4:46 PM, Bluesnik said:

Picked mine up this morning and was told they'd flown away. They only had 2 left. Am with Tubbs in N.Y. now. With Horace Parlan, Eddie Costa on vibes and Clark Terry.

Listening to it as well—on Down In The Village right now, an excellent live date. This is a superlative set.

[Bluesnik]

3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

This is a superlative set.

Yeah, I listened to it again last night: Mexican Green, Grits and Tubbs. I even like the Orchestra album that precedes Grits, with its two respective Lennon-McCartney and Bacharach songs, which is basically a pop song versions album.

[ghost of miles]

Disc 1/Sextant from The Complete Herbie Hancock On Columbia 1972-88.

[Brad]

Disc 7 from the Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel.  

[Bluesnik]

Very good combination of both hands from Nichols. And with Art Blakey and Max Roach.

Edited January 30, 2020 by Bluesnik

[Misterioso]

[ghost of miles]

Disc 3/Dedication from the Herbie Hancock Columbia set.  Solo piano, beautiful version of "Maiden Voyage."  

[Jim Duckworth]

Edited February 13, 2020 by Jim Duckworth
I placed this in the wrong thread. sorry.

[Big Beat Steve]

5 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Although I've listened very closely to (most of) this music for decades, I, for some reason, have been listening to every Sun single in order and am getting close to the end.  I'm not certain I would recommend this to anyone harboring less than a very deep love for this music, but it is very different from my previous experiences of investigating one artist's output at a time.  

 

The difference in experience is that with box sets like this you get to experience the music quite a bit more the way it was experienced by listeners BACK THEN. This can be very instructive. If you investigate (any) one's (Sun) artist's output at a time you get a very different set of music because the ratio of tracks not issued at the time is INORDINATELY high (often way more than 50%, and all this was issued for the first time only from the 70s onwards when the first relatively comprehensive avalanche of 50s Sun music was pressed by Charly). Great as a lot this previously unreleased music is, of course the 50s audience never got to hear it, so what we listen to as the "Sun sound" is not quite what it actually was at the time. This colors our perception and appreciation (and as with many jazz artists where every note committed to tape or wax has since been dug up this can be a dangerous thing if the unissueds are underhandedly or unwittingly included when we today figure out what the PUBLIC awareness and appreciation of the artist was back then or - worse still - ought to have been).