Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[ghost of miles]

[psu_13]

The Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington Cote D'Azur Concerts On Verve

[Fred]

On 12/1/2024 at 5:52 PM, ghost of miles said:

Is this a real improvement of the sound quality? I have all the previous editions, and the Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings.

[jazzbo]

IMO it's a subtle improvement but. . . yeah, I think so. Sure sounds great.

[ghost of miles]

7 hours ago, Fred said:

Is this a real improvement of the sound quality? I have all the previous editions, and the Off The Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings.

To my untrained ears it is an improvement over the Off The Record set, which itself was quite an improvement over previous issues. A relatively new board member has a much more detailed analysis here. 

[Fred]

15 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

To my untrained ears it is an improvement over the Off The Record set, which itself was quite an improvement over previous issues. A relatively new board member has a much more detailed analysis here. 

Thanks! Very interesting post.

[John Tapscott]

[T.D.]

[Teasing the Korean]

Not jazz per se, but possibly jazz-adjacent, depending on your politics:  Dionne Warwick complete 1960s Scepter singles, a 3-CD set. Every A- & B-side. Nearly all Bacharach/David (until you get to the final tracks) and nearly all mono (until you get to the final tracks).  Lots of titles I don't recognize, generally the B-sides.

[T.D.]

[T.D.]

Although sometimes I think I must be insane for listening to this kind of music (if not already for other reasons).

[T.D.]

[T.D.]

[Jazzmonkie]

[ghost of miles]

[GA Russell]

Not jazz

[T.D.]

[T.D.]

[jlhoots]

On 2/7/2025 at 7:55 PM, T.D. said:

Works for me.

[mikeweil]

[GA Russell]

Disc One.

This is the best George Coleman I've heard.  Does anyone know why he left the group?  Was it his idea or Miles'?

 

[BFrank]

With the wave of interest in Strata-East lately, I'm finally getting around to listening to ALL of this. Quite a wide variety of styles. Nice to have some of the albums now being reissued included here.

[mikeweil]

Starting with disc one, let me see how far I get today.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

Starting with disc one, let me see how far I get today.

With the LP set, I found that one side of an LP was enough to fill me up. There's so much there!

[mikeweil]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

With the LP set, I found that one side of an LP was enough to fill me up. There's so much there!

Indeed! Not exactly background music. And the abundance of embellishments is almost too much.