Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[medjuck]

37 minutes ago, Bluesnik said:

I rediscovered this a while ago and am now wth the Jones-Smith Inc. group, Basie's Bad Boys and upcoming the Kansas City Seven. What a treasure of a boxset.

I second that emotion. 

[ghost of miles]

18 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

I rediscovered this a while ago and am now wth the Jones-Smith Inc. group, Basie's Bad Boys and upcoming the Kansas City Seven. What a treasure of a boxset.

Excellent set, one that I need to revisit as well.

Right now, starting off with disc 1 of some Brownie:

[Bluesnik]

On 18/04/2020 at 3:09 AM, Bluesnik said:

I rediscovered this a while ago and am now wth the Jones-Smith Inc. group, Basie's Bad Boys and upcoming the Kansas City Seven. What a treasure of a boxset.

And Basie at organ on some tracks.

[ghost of miles]

[T.D.]

[BFrank]

All four Special Edition albums on ECM. Great stuff!

[mikeweil]

Discs 3 & 4, mabe more ...

[gmonahan]

Working my way through this one as I read my father's letters to my mother while he was in the army in '47!

 

[jcam_44]

[BFrank]

[Bluesnik]

[BeBop]

Five months without music, I've recently been binge listening to all my twenty-or-so complete Black Saint and Soul Note sets.  Paul Motian at the moment.  

Any music is great; these have the edge of being easy to get to in my collection.

[Jim Duckworth]

Rolled through Teddy Wilson, Wingy Manone, and solo sessions; now really enjoying the Cab Calloway elements of this box.

[Bluesnik]

And enjoying it immensly. Not only because of Charlie Christian, also because of all of the others. I was listening to Hampton's Mosaic before, so he's a link.

[ghost of miles]

[B. Goren.]

This morning CDs 1 # 2.

[mikeweil]

Powerful music, almost too much. Six discs.

[jlhoots]

Miles Davis: Complete In A Silent Way

[Bluesnik]

[BFrank]

[Jazzmonkie]

[ghost of miles]

[Bluesnik]

43 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

That must be an interesting boxset. When was it released? Is it still available?

[jazzbo]

It was released in 2004 and is out of print as all the Fantasy titles released before Concord are. It can be had cheaply though in the used market.

[ghost of miles]

1 hour ago, Bluesnik said:

That must be an interesting boxset. When was it released? Is it still available?

I realize Jazzbo already answered your question--I snagged it a few years ago when the Fantasy box-sets were turning up online as cutouts at bargain prices, and when I was going through a period of new appreciation for such anthologies.  It's an excellent overview of the label, with good historical notes by Richard S. Ginell, and really shows the range of so-called "West Coast jazz," at least as recorded by Lester Koenig.  Well worth picking up if found for a reasonable price.