mikeweil Posted July 7, 2014 Report Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) The advantage is that this box keeps the original albums intact - I'll get me one, as this always annoyed me about the Warner double CD. And Rhino's mastering will be better, I suppose. Edited July 7, 2014 by mikeweil Quote
soulpope Posted July 7, 2014 Report Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) The advantage is that this box keeps the original albums intact - I'll get me one, as this always annoyed about the Warner double CD. And Rhino's mastering will be better, I suppose. never really warmed up to this recordings, so this could be the way to give it another try (these infividual albums also are part of the Atlantic Yen 1000 series, but without the bonus material)....... Edited July 8, 2014 by soulpope Quote
mikeweil Posted July 7, 2014 Report Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) I'm seriously biased about Mwandishi and Crossings as these were among the albums that rocked my world back then ... desert island discs for me. I never heard a better fusion of electric and acoustic sounds, or funky grooves beyond cliché with free form jazz playing. I pre-ordered a copy from amazon.de Edited July 7, 2014 by mikeweil Quote
JSngry Posted July 8, 2014 Report Posted July 8, 2014 Seems like a good chance to update the Warners set and pass it along to a friend. But maybe not. I got excited about "mono mixes", but they're from Fat Albert Rotunda, and...errrr...not excited. But give me a mono mix of Crossings, and I'd have to hear that, wrong as it would seem/be. Like, remove that third dimension ok, just give me a flattline mix, let's see what THAT does. However, along those lines, the "single mix" of "Water Torture", that's still stereo, so is it just an edited version, or will they have an actual 45 hotass mastermix on there? If so, that's better than nothing! Crossings is, for me, an album that never really hits me, yet knocks me out. One of those subliminal seduction things, perhaps. No matter, when I reach for it, it usually stays reached for for a few days, ongoing. Quote
CJ Shearn Posted July 8, 2014 Report Posted July 8, 2014 (edited) I'll hang on to my original Complete Warner set from 1994. I love this set. I am not sure the promos and edits are necessary at this point, but this new set may be worth checking out. They should have included for their first official release, some live recordings of this band. The live stuff goes into quite amazing territory the studio stuff hints at. Edited July 8, 2014 by CJ Shearn Quote
erwbol Posted July 24, 2014 Report Posted July 24, 2014 The set has been released in Germany, samples now up on Amazon.de. Sounds quite good, actually. I'm going to take a chance and order this. Quote
mikeweil Posted July 24, 2014 Report Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) I got mine last week. The edits are interesting, they show there must have been longer takes that were edited down to the LP versions, like Teo Macero did with Miles' albums. Too bad Rhino/Warner and Herbie cannot make up their minds and issue a box like those of Miles' music. Sound is very good indeed, very detailed and a bit better than the Warner double CD. Bob Gluck wrote a short liner essay. Lovers of this music will have his book, anyway. Edited July 29, 2014 by mikeweil Quote
erwbol Posted July 29, 2014 Report Posted July 29, 2014 The Columbia set is now only €99.99 on Amazon.de. That is below the pre-order price and significantly lower than on Amazon UK and US. Quote
crisp Posted October 27, 2014 Report Posted October 27, 2014 The Columbia set is €87.90 at Amazon Italy. Quote
sidewinder Posted February 11, 2015 Report Posted February 11, 2015 Finally - at long last - got my set. Great mastering by Mark Wilder, very nice. First out of the box and it's 'Perfect Machine' from 1988 with Bill Laswell and.... It's great ! maybe I should be shot? Quote
sidewinder Posted February 11, 2015 Report Posted February 11, 2015 No, but your hearing might be. Pardon? Quote
erwbol Posted February 11, 2015 Report Posted February 11, 2015 No, but your hearing might be. Pardon? shot Quote
CJ Shearn Posted March 5, 2017 Report Posted March 5, 2017 Finally ordered a copy of this, $84.99 at Amazon, will be passing my existing single discs to a friend. Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 17, 2020 Report Posted January 17, 2020 Found a still-sealed new copy on eBay today for $90 total (including shipping from the UK) so I pulled the trigger. I've got a couple of CDs that were reissued on Wounded Bird, plus several of the more prominent Sony Legacy suspects (Headhunters, Sextant, much of the VSOP material and a dub of Flood), but there's a fair amount here that I haven't heard before (for better or worse, it would seem, reading through this thread). Going into it all with open ears! Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted January 17, 2020 Report Posted January 17, 2020 Was this big Herbie box ever reissued in any sort of less crazy packaging than the massive clear cube thing? Not sure that would sway me towards jumping on buying it, but it might. Quote
jazzbo Posted January 17, 2020 Report Posted January 17, 2020 An earlier smaller box came in a clear cube. This one has only been released in one version, which is not a clear cube. Quote
erwbol Posted January 17, 2020 Report Posted January 17, 2020 (edited) The box's booklet is outstanding (200 pages). You wouldn't want to be without it. Sound as well. No matter that I hate perhaps about 1/3 of the albums. Great set. Edited January 17, 2020 by erwbol Quote
felser Posted January 17, 2020 Report Posted January 17, 2020 44 minutes ago, erwbol said: The box's booklet is outstanding (200 pages). You wouldn't want to be without it. Sound as well. No matter that I hate perhaps about 1/3 of the albums. Great set. My feelings exactly. Sound is far superior to the Wounded Bird reissues. We probably hate the same 10 albums! I at least sampled everything on the box, but did not even listen to about a third of it (think "Rockit" and the like, and all those horrible vocoder vocals). But would not want to be without the remaining 20 discs. Paid something like $110 for mine several years ago. Quote
CJ Shearn Posted January 18, 2020 Report Posted January 18, 2020 5 hours ago, felser said: My feelings exactly. Sound is far superior to the Wounded Bird reissues. We probably hate the same 10 albums! I at least sampled everything on the box, but did not even listen to about a third of it (think "Rockit" and the like, and all those horrible vocoder vocals). But would not want to be without the remaining 20 discs. Paid something like $110 for mine several years ago. I love this set. The worst albums IMO are Feets Don't Fail Me Now and Monster but in hindsight the Laswell trilogy isn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be back when I was a snob. I thought the Wounded Bird discs had identical masterings but I guess not. Their cover reproductions were quite poor. Quote
David Ayers Posted January 18, 2020 Report Posted January 18, 2020 I would not have loved this set - but I still wish I’d bought it new at its original non-fancy price. Oh well. Quote
sidewinder Posted January 18, 2020 Report Posted January 18, 2020 I think I paid about £70 at HMV. A useful set - mix of gems and ‘curate’s eggs’. Quote
2scoops Posted January 18, 2020 Report Posted January 18, 2020 Quite a few years ago HMV had the Herbie box in their sale for £25. I knew some of the albums were not my cup of tea but bought it anyway as it was such a great price. A couple of years later it was still unopened so I decided to sell it - as is always the way, I now regret that rather hasty decision! Quote
ghost of miles Posted August 8 Report Posted August 8 Finally on the verge of finishing my journey through this massive set (just listened to Future Shock, so four more albums to go). So much great music here, and I’m glad to have it all at hand now… but wow, the so-called “dance” albums from the late 1970s/early 80s are abysmally dull for the most part, as bad as conventional wisdom would have it. Unless coerced, I’ll never listen to Monster, Magic Windows, Feets Don’t Fail Me Now, or Lite Me Up ever again (probably same for Sunlight, in spite of its recent popularity with younger listeners and musicians). Mr. Hands otoh was an excellent surprise. It’s not that I mind commercial pop and disco from that era—it’s more that most of Herbie’s efforts in that direction sound so insipid and uninspired to me. Still a helluva set overall, though. Quote
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