Complete Miles Davis - 70CD + DVD

[jazzbo]

JETman emailed me this link, no real info yet, but you can order it!

http://www.amazon.com/Compleet-Columbia-Co...9596&sr=1-1

Edited as Free for All found it not to work.

Edited August 24, 2009 by jazzbo

[Free For All]

JETman emailed me this link, no real info yet, but you can order it!

http://www.amazon.com/Compleet-Colum...1139596&sr=1-1

That link doesn't seem to work, Lon.

[Chuck Nessa]

That's fine with me.

[jazzbo]

Hmmm. . . I'll try this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Compleet-Columbia-Co...9596&sr=1-1

[Chuck Nessa]

Why?

[jazzbo]

I'm just putting the link out there Chuck. Not recommending anyone buying it, nor talking anyone out of it.

[Bluerein]

The listing on the German seller JPC is removed and the box is not listed anymore......Did they listen to this forum and cancel the issue?

[A Lark Ascending]

Strikes me as a bizarre release, especially with current changing technology.

Too big for a new listener. How could you ever digest it? Those already with extensive collections of Miles will see little new there.

Which leaves a market of those who have to have every release or can't live without the packaging. Can't see that being economically viable.

The era-related boxes that Columbia have put out have been exemplary - old stuff (in better sound), unreleased music, all in reasonable number of discs to get your head round. But 70 discs!

[jazzbo]

The Glenn Gould "Original Jacket Collection" set had 80 discs. . . and I must say it is an excellent release. As an exclusive for amazon.com I think this is a release that will have some success. One retailer, much more managable and marketable. We'll see.

Reiner, who is JPC? IF they are not amazon, they may have deleted this because they won't be distributed copies. (?)

[Claude]

JPC is the second biggest german online retailer, after Amazon.de.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/home/about/-/page/aboutjpc.html

[jazzbo]

Thanks. Then if this is an amazon exclusive as reported, JPC couldn't sell it, and would delete any catalog item they created.

[jazzbo]

Finally something from Legacy (thanks JETman for the link):

http://legacyrecordings.com/News/NewsDetai...b0-53833114010b

[djcavanagh]

I find this fascinating. I'm not quite sure who they are appealing to with this. Obviously there are a few things that are unreleased but if you wanted everything Miles did for Columbia you would still have to buy (at least some of) the recent series of box sets, e.g. the live sets from the Blackhawk, Plugged Nickel, Cellar Door. I'm not sure how having only two cds from the Plugged Nickel is "the best of both worlds", meaning the original track listing without the original edits. I can understand that adding all of the other stuff would have added a large number of cds but once you get to 70 are an extra 20-30 really going to change much? Or maybe I'm talking out of my rear end on this...

Denis

[Rosco]

So the extra tracks on We Want Miles are from the Japanese Miles! Miles! Miles!... why not just include that album?

[jazzbo]

I know, it's silly. Put some extra stuff on some, not on others, it's neither "just the original albums as released" nor " all the stuff."

Weird.

[GregK]

I know, it's silly. Put some extra stuff on some, not on others, it's neither "just the original albums as released" nor " all the stuff."

Weird.

And, maybe I missed it, but are Agharta and Pangaea remastered or otherwise enhanced at all?

[jazzbo]

As far as I can tell, I believe that the catalog numbers listed are for the US digipaks (I no longer have those, I have Japanese DSD versions).

[gmonahan]

What's frustrating is that Legacy stopped a very fine reissue program short of completeness. Several of the Ellington albums never got that treatment--"Drum is a Woman," "Bal Masque," and "Indigos," come immediately to mind--and there are any number of other Columbia artists who should have gotten it. But instead, we get this mammoth and quite useless Miles Box. Legacy already issued this music in its series of excellent Miles boxes. Like Lon says, weird, but also infuriating!

I guess we should take some miniscule comfort in the fact that they're issuing SOMETHING!

greg mo

[bertrand]

When the fuck will they put out a DVD of the 60's quintet on its own? I've been good up until now, but I'm tempted to get the boots at this point. I'm not buying this behemoth just to get the DVD.

What an insane packaging concept.

Bertrand.

[Brad]

Interessting that it's only available through Amazon. Wonder if this is the wave of the future on certain things.

[king ubu]

As far as I can tell, I believe that the catalog numbers listed are for the US digipaks (I no longer have those, I have Japanese DSD versions).

digipacks of "Agartha" and "Pangaea"? I thought there only were the jewel case Master Works vesions (with red frame, not blue)?

I recently got those, having given up ever getting newer versions. Of all the other 2CD sets (Fillmores, In Concert etc) I got the digipack versions.

[sidewinder]

I'm sure it's been said before but the only way to hear 'Agharta' is on the vinyl. I think I even prefer my UK CBS 2LP from 1976 over the Japanese CBS-Sony 2LP. You also have to follow Miles' instructions on the inside of the cover to crank up the volume to its highest possible level.

[GregK]

As far as I can tell, I believe that the catalog numbers listed are for the US digipaks (I no longer have those, I have Japanese DSD versions).

digipacks of "Agartha" and "Pangaea"? I thought there only were the jewel case Master Works vesions (with red frame, not blue)?

I recently got those, having given up ever getting newer versions. Of all the other 2CD sets (Fillmores, In Concert etc) I got the digipack versions.

You are correct, they never were issued in the digipak. That is why I was wondering if the box set editions were different from the currently available versions because they were not reissued along with all of the other albums 10-12 years ago.

[king ubu]

As far as I can tell, I believe that the catalog numbers listed are for the US digipaks (I no longer have those, I have Japanese DSD versions).

digipacks of "Agartha" and "Pangaea"? I thought there only were the jewel case Master Works vesions (with red frame, not blue)?

I recently got those, having given up ever getting newer versions. Of all the other 2CD sets (Fillmores, In Concert etc) I got the digipack versions.

You are correct, they never were issued in the digipak. That is why I was wondering if the box set editions were different from the currently available versions because they were not reissued along with all of the other albums 10-12 years ago.

Thanks for confirming!

I won't bother for the mother...load of Miles in that box...

At least one of the two btw, was done I think as late as 1994, so maybe when they re-did the other ones in those nice 2CD digipacks (although Fillmore ought to have been expanded to a 4CD package with all four sets, in my opinion!), they maybe just thought there was no need to re-do those as well as they were still fairly recent.

[PHILLYQ]

I'm sure it's been said before but the only way to hear 'Agharta' is on the vinyl. I think I even prefer my UK CBS 2LP from 1976 over the Japanese CBS-Sony 2LP. You also have to follow Miles' instructions on the inside of the cover to crank up the volume to its highest possible level.

It may be hard to find, but there is a Japanese remastering using DSD that is the same mix and sounds the same as the vinyl. And defintely CRANK IT UP!!!