Chronological Classics

[king ubu]

I stopped regularly reading and re-reading the liner notes, but I like having proper documentation, mainly, and I live with the illusion that lossless files burned to CDR actually do sound better to my very ears than MP3s from my analogically hooked up MP3-player...

[captainwrong]

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere in this thread, but is there anywhere to get the discography info for these things easily? That's really all I need and then I'm ready to hit eMusic and Amazon.

[mjzee]

We should start a thread listing all discographical resources.

jazzdisco.org is a great place to start, though they seem to concentrate on bebop & afterwards: http://www.jazzdisco.org/

Here's a great Duke Ellington discography: http://www.depanorama.net/

Sidney Bechet: http://www.sidneybechet.org/sbr.html

Monk: http://www.howardm.net/tsmonk/tsmonk2.php

[captainwrong]

We should start a thread listing all discographical resources

this is really an excellent idea.

Here's a Gene Krupa one: http://www.genekrupa.net/session.html

[mjzee]

Free Jazz Research (Ed Blackwell, Pharaoh Sanders, more): http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/

Lotsa stuff here: http://www.rainerjazz.com/discogr.htm

ECM artists: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8f4kf/music.htm

Many other leads here: http://members.tripod.com/go54321/jazz.html

[Hoppy T. Frog]

Free Jazz Research (Ed Blackwell, Pharaoh Sanders, more): http://www.mindspring.com/~scala/

Lotsa stuff here: http://www.rainerjazz.com/discogr.htm

ECM artists: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8f4kf/music.htm

Many other leads here: http://members.tripod.com/go54321/jazz.html

These may be worth a thread of their own in the Discography forum. Just a suggestion.

[A Lark Ascending]

UK members should note these Classics discs are a mere £3.95 downloaded from Amazon.co.uk. Extremely good value.

[Swinging Swede]

UK members should note these Classics discs are a mere £3.95 downloaded from Amazon.co.uk. Extremely good value.

At the same time they are available in the "Complete Jazz Series" incarnation for £6.99. Well, I had my doubts about those all along.

[Jaffa]

Anyone with a dime to spare - and an empty store-room - might be interested in this e-bay item

380133246426

[Chuck Nessa]

Yikes!

[Indestructible!]

Whoa, $900 just to ship it over here! It'll be interesting to see how much this actually goes for.

Cheers,

Shane

[Swinging Swede]

Is that his personal archive? Or does he have mutiple copies?

[gmonahan]

Opening bid is $9.99. Maybe I should bid $10?

greg mo

[Swinging Swede]

Sold for $6,600! That's slightly less than $7 per CD.

[Big Beat Steve]

I've a hunch this auction (or rather its selling price) is a bogus auction. Look at how those two final bidderrs raised each other briefly in a flash and then left it at that. And one of them with just ONE single feedback. If a newbie comes in at an auction out of the blue and bids sky-high way before the end I smell a BIG FAT rat!!

Edited July 4, 2009 by Big Beat Steve

[bakeostrin]

Agree with Steve on this one. E-bay rolled out the red carpet to shill bidding when it made all the bidding anonymous.

[Cliff Englewood]

Agree with Steve on this one. E-bay rolled out the red carpet to shill bidding when it made all the bidding anonymous.

And I would presume there is nothing to stop the sellers, creating a second ebay account and bidding on their own items to push up the price just as the auction is about to end???

[randyhersom]

Only the risk of actually winning the auction.

[Cliff Englewood]

Only the risk of actually winning the auction.

Of course, but then they could always re-list the item.

[captainknut]

The CDs are rapidly running out even at the legit sites. I live in a country where I cannot download legit MP3s from Amazon. So my only option left is unauthorized downloading. Does anybody know a site where I can find the Duke Ellington albums to download?

[SwingItTrev]

The CDs are rapidly running out even at the legit sites. I live in a country where I cannot download legit MP3s from Amazon. So my only option left is unauthorized downloading. Does anybody know a site where I can find the Duke Ellington albums to download?

Have you tried eMusic.com? Chronological Classics and the nearly identical Complete Jazz Series are available there (in most countries)

[captainknut]

Have you tried eMusic.com? Chronological Classics and the nearly identical Complete Jazz Series are available there (in most countries)

Search as I might, I could only find 16 of the 45 Duke Ellington Classics albums. The search function isn't too good, though. Do you know where I can find the Classics albums? (Do they have them all?)

[captainknut]

And can I also download the artwork/booklet for the CD tray?

[jazzbo]

Not from eMusic, no.

[randyhersom]

Here's an alternative, seems to be complete studio recordings through 1947:

Dukle Ellingon 1924-1947 40 cd box

I'll be supplementing it with the post 1947 CCs from eMusic.