Which Jazz box set are you grooving to right now?

[king ubu]

[ElginThompson]

Disc 1, Elmo Hope.

[king ubu]

[king ubu]

[jeffcrom]

Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (FMP) - Remembrance, CT & Louis Moholo

This is one of my favorite box sets, bought for 200 bucks in 1989, when it was issued. That was a huge sum for me at the time. It goes without saying that it was worth it.

Later: What a beautiful performance. You'd think a Taylor/Moholo duet would be unrelentingly aggressive, but there's so much variety of dynamics and texture here.

Edited February 13, 2012 by jeffcrom

[JohnS]

Murray's Steps

Probably my favourite of the Soul Note/Black Saint Octets.

Edited February 13, 2012 by JohnS

[king ubu]

Two discs in (I wonder why the earliest album is grouped as #2?), it sounds like my ears will need several listens to get attuned to this... synths, electric bass, lots of flute... not that anything about it is bad, not at all, but the overall sound isn't what I usually prefer.

[jeffcrom]

Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (FMP)

Tonight, The Hearth, with Evan Parker and Tristan Honsinger. This is one of the relatively few recordings on which Taylor doesn't completely dominate.

[colinmce]

If it takes me 30 years and I have to sell off a chunk of my collection to afford it, I will have that one day.

[John Tapscott]

[alankin]

Art Pepper - The Complete Galaxy Recordings - disk 5

With George Cables, Tony Dumas, Billy Higgins - Live in Tokyo 1979 - issued on "Landscape", "Besame Mucho"

[T.D.]

Have been dipping into this the past 10 days or so:

[AfricaBrass]

I love that Coltrane set!

When I go to bed, I always listen to jazz. The last few nights I've been listening to Monk's Prestige recordings.

[ElginThompson]

Yardbird on Verve (Disc 4)

Edited February 26, 2012 by Delightfulee

[Bluesnik]

the complete hot five and hot sevens, again...

[StarThrower]

[king ubu]

Tomasz Stanko - 1970 1975 1984 1986 1988

right now: disc 1 (1970): Music for K

[king ubu]

Tomasz Stanko - 1970 1975 1984 1986 1988

right now: disc 1 (1970): Music for K

and now disc 2 (1975): Twet

[jeffcrom]

Louis Armstrong and the Blues Singers 1924-1930 (Affinity). This is some of my favorite music; I sometimes think that I like these recordings more than the Hot Fives. Right now I'm listening to disc 3, with Trixie Smith, Clara Smith, Bessie Smith, and the great vaudeville team of Coot Grant and Kid Sox Wilson.

[king ubu]

Tomasz Stanko - 1970 1975 1984 1986 1988

right now: disc 1 (1970): Music for K

and now disc 2 (1975): Twet

discs 3-5:

Music 81

Lady Go

Tomasz Stanko Freelectronic Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987

[jeffcrom]

John Coltrane - The Heavyweight Champion (Rhino/Atlantic). When I listen to this set, I usually program tracks to duplicate one of the original albums, but tonight I'm spinning disc four as is.

[ElginThompson]

Fats! Disc 2.

[brownie]

The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk (Mercury), disc 3

[jeffcrom]

Ornette Coleman - Beauty is a Rare Thing (Rhino/Atlantic); The Shape of Jazz to Come, programmed from disc one, plus the extra tunes from the same session. I bought this set the day it was released.

I wrote a saxophone quartet arrangement of "Peace" today. It might suck; I'll find out at rehearsal Friday, I guess.

Charlie Parker - The Complete Dial Recordings (Stash); the session with J.J. Johnson on disc four. The master take of "Crazeology" is one of my half-dozen favorite Bird recordings.

[ElginThompson]

Hawkins/Eldridge at the Bayou Club. Disc 1.