Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[ghost of miles]

Disc 1—such an excellent collection:

 

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

The Mulligan Select

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[mikeweil]

Brunch with this box set, in memory of Astrud Gilberto. Reading about Getz exploiting her almost drives me mad.

Edited June 18, 2023 by mikeweil

[John Tapscott]

On 5/22/2023 at 2:33 PM, Stompin at the Savoy said:

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[ghost of miles]

On 6/28/2023 at 10:56 AM, John Tapscott said:

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One of the first big box sets that I bought when I was working in a record store, and one that I love to go back to from time to time.

Still making my way through recent-years binges on Soul Note and Black Saint sets:

… had forgotten how damn good Parallel Worlds is. 

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[Justin V]

Disc 1: I'm glad I finally tracked this one down.  

[Stompin at the Savoy]

[Chuck Nessa]

[JSngry]

 

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I have that. Lucky for me!!!

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Those were the days ....

[Justin V]

This arrived yesterday.  I had three discs of this and hadn't listened to them in years, despite liking them (probably because they hadn't been ripped and uploaded to my YouTube Music library).  I'm glad that finding a set listed for cheap prompted me to grab it.  It's making think about grabbing the JATP Mosaic at some point.

[ghost of miles]

The Miles Smiles portion of this, at the end of disc 1 and the beginning of disc 2. 
 

[ghost of miles]

[BFrank]

[Jim Duckworth]

Disc 5 with Clifford Jordan and Freddie Hubbard...

 

[ghost of miles]

4 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Disc 5 with Clifford Jordan and Freddie Hubbard...

 

That’a a good ‘un! Intro to the booklet by David Baker iirc.

Right now, one of the first jazz box sets I ever bought, along with the Bud Powell Blue Note and Roost set that came out around the same time:

 

[AllenLowe]

On 7/13/2023 at 9:55 AM, Justin V said:

This arrived yesterday.  I had three discs of this and hadn't listened to them in years, despite liking them (probably because they hadn't been ripped and uploaded to my YouTube Music library).  I'm glad that finding a set listed for cheap prompted me to grab it.  It's making think about grabbing the JATP Mosaic at some point.

Rich is best listened to in a small group setting, where he seems to have been able to channel his inner Dave Tough and play brilliantly. To my ears, after he became a star and started leading that later big band his work always sounds like "hey look at me."

[felser]

On 7/26/2023 at 10:57 PM, ghost of miles said:

That’a a good ‘un! Intro to the booklet by David Baker iirc.

Right now, one of the first jazz box sets I ever bought, along with the Bud Powell Blue Note and Roost set that came out around the same time:

 

Those 90's BN boxes (Monk, Powell, Clifford Brown, and especially the Dex and Hancock) were beautifully executed.  Much prefer them to the Mosaic format.  Wish they had continued in that way.

[ghost of miles]

2 hours ago, felser said:

Those 90's BN boxes (Monk, Powell, Clifford Brown, and especially the Dex and Hancock) were beautifully executed.  Much prefer them to the Mosaic format.  Wish they had continued in that way.

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc). 
 

 

[mikeweil]

[sidewinder]

21 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

I have all of those sets! The Monk and especially the Powell box are beat to hell from my carting them around in a bag so much during my early years of DJing, when I was frequently biking back and forth to two different radio stations. Only thing I didn’t care for was the occasional deliberate jumbling and disordering of the booklet text, which was evidently in typographical fashion during the mid-1990s (the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel set was the worst in this regard iirc). 
 

 

That Plugged Nickel CD set booklet was an absolute travesty. Thank goodness Mosaic didn’t go down that route with their LP version.

[Jim Duckworth]

7 hours ago, mikeweil said:

I find myself returning to this set frequently.