Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[BFrank]

Bill Evans - Last Waltz (disk 2)

[sidewinder]

Weather Report 'Forecast Tomorrow' set, CDs 2 and 3 and the DVD. Best $15 I have ever spent in my life.

[jeffcrom]

Inspired by my visit to Ma Rainey's last home and grave today: Mother of the Blues (JSP); disc five.

"They say that I do it;

Ain't nobody caught me.

Y'all got to prove it on me."

[jeffcrom]

Inspired by my visit to Ma Rainey's last home and grave today: Mother of the Blues (JSP); disc five.

"They say that I do it;

Ain't nobody caught me.

Y'all got to prove it on me."

Disc four today. I don't know who plays trombone on the August, 1927 sessions - "Big Boy Blues" through "Oh Papa Blues" - but it ain't Kid Ory. I don't care what the liner notes or Brian Rust say; it sounds nothing like Ory. Where are the "experts'" ears?

Edited November 11, 2010 by jeffcrom

[Chuck Nessa]

Possibly Albert Wynn?

[jeffcrom]

Possibly Albert Wynn?

Yeah, I thought about comparing the trombone playing on those sides to some confirmed Albert Wynn recordings, but I was too lazy today. I might do that later this week. It's funny, though, how guesses made in the early days of jazz scholarship have taken on lives of their own.

[jeffcrom]

Cecil Taylor - 2 Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza); disc 5.

[brownie]

Fats Waller 'Volume 4, 1936-1938' (JSP, discs 1 & 2)

[John Tapscott]

Joe Henderson - The Milestone Years - great stuff on the first four discs; the last 4, not so much, but they have their moments.

[Big Al]

Lester Young Verve Box, discs 2 & 3

[brownie]

Stan Getz 'Complete Roost Recordings' (BN), disc 2

[brownie]

Stan Getz/Kenny Barron 'People Time' (EmArcy), discs 3 and 4

[JohnS]

Miles and Coltrane; Complete Columbia 1955-61. Disc 1.

[JohnS]

Miles and Coltrane; Complete Columbia 1955-61. Disc 1.

Moved on to discs 2 and 3.

[BFrank]

Joe Hen, Milestone box - disk 1

[jeffcrom]

Complete Herbie Hancock on Blue Note, disc one - Takin' Off with all the alternate takes, plus "Yams" from a Jackie Mclean date. I've always thought that Dexter Gordon's "Watermelon Man" solo was a sly parody of R & B saxophone playing.

[B. Goren.]

Disk #2:

[brownie]

Dinah Washington Complete on Mercury, Volume 4 '1954-1956' (Mercury Japan)

[brownie]

Charles Mingus 'The Complete Birdland Broadcasts' (RLR), disc 2

[jeffcrom]

The Art Ensemble 1967/68 (Nessa); disc two.

[jeffcrom]

Louis Armstrong - Complete RCA Victor Recordings. This stuff doesn't have the reputation of the Hot 5 & 7, but in the 1932-33 period represented by discs one and two of this set, Louis' trumpet playing was at its absolute peak. The alternate take of "That's My Home" has always made my heart constrict as much as any other music I've heard, and many of the other tracks are almost as good - "I've Got the World On a String," "I've Gotta Right to Sing the Blues," even the two sides of "Medley of Armstrong Hits." There's an eloquence to this music that Armstrong never quite equaled.

[B. Goren.]

[jazzbo]

Bill Evans Galaxy.

[king ubu]

The Ayler "Holy Ghost" box... on and off, as I'm doing a chronological Ayler listen these days!

[ghost of miles]

The CTI COOL REVOLUTION set, just purchased in downtown Bloomington at Landlocked Music.