Are there any box bargains currently available?

[medjuck]

Mine was fine too.

[ghost of miles]

I had a problem with track 1 on disc 1 skipping the first two times I played it--but on subsequent replays it didn't skip, leading me to think that the problem most likely stems from my rapidly-aging CD player. The packaging/box itself was fine; no problems there.

[mr jazz]

Everything ok here but haven't played all discs yet

[Big Wheel]

Mine (Nat Cole Hip-O) arrived this morning.

Thanks again, Edward!

F

You are all very welcome. It shows that it pays to maintain (and regularly check) a wishlist on Amazon.

Or you could use the Amazon price tracker at camelcamelcamel.com, which sends you emails or tweets automatically when the price of stuff on your list goes below a certain level. My new favorite site.

[Van Basten II]

Not a mega deal but still an interesting one Garrick Ohlsson's complete Chopin works is being sold for 70 $ plus very cheap shipping fees

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F4YGUA/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

[B. Goren.]

Not a mega deal but still an interesting one Garrick Ohlsson's complete Chopin works is being sold for 70 $ plus very cheap shipping fees

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001F4YGUA/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

This Chopin Collection is also recommended and for a very cheap price.

[mattes]

The Perfect Blues Collection Box Set (25 discs, Sony)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Blues-Collection-Box-Set/dp/B004J3QACQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1303626574&sr=1-1

(25 Original albums in a cube lift off lid box.....All original albums are replicated in mini jacket sleeves accompanied by a 40 page booklet. Contains - '1) Bessie Smith - 'The Bessie Smith Story', 2) Big Bill Broonzy - 'Big Bill Blues', 3) Little Richard - 'Little Richard And Buck Ram', 4) Mahalia Jackson - 'Live At Newport 1958', 5) Chuck Willis - 'Wails The Blues', 6) Elvis Presley - 'Elvis Presley For Lp Fans Only', 7) Jimmy Witherspoon - 'In Person', 8) Robert Johnson - 'King Of The Delta Blues Singers', 9) Sonny Boy Williamson And Memphis Slim', 10) Aretha Franklin - 'Unforgettable:A Tribute To Dinah Washington', 11) Son House - 'Father Of Folk Blues', 12) Johnny “Guitar†Watson & Larry Williams - 'Two For The Price Of One', 13) Champion Jack Dupree - 'Anthologie Du Blues Vol. 1', 14) Otis Span - 'The Biggest Things Since Colossus', 15) Johnny Winter - 'Johnny Winter', 16) Percy Mayfield - 'Sings Percy Mayfield ', 17) The Johnny Otis Show - 'Live At Monterey!', 18) Willie Dixon - 'I Am The Blues', 19) Hubert Sumlin & His Friends - 'Kings Of Chicago Blues',

20) Taj Mahal - 'The Real Thing', 21) Muddy Waters - 'Hard Again', 22) Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - 'Texas Flood', 23) Keb’ Mo’ - 'Just Like You

24) Etta James - 'Life, Love & The Blues', 25) Buddy Guy - 'Blues Singer')

The Perfect Jazz Collection Box - Volume 2 [box set]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Jazz-Collection-Box/dp/B004Q9SO0O/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1303627154&sr=1-3

(The collection contains the following albums: Duke Ellington - Ellington Uptown; Dave Brubeck - Jazz Goes To College; Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats; Miles Davis - Round About Midnight; Various Artists - The Sound Of Jazz; Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um; Sonny Rollins - The Bridge; Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue; Thelonious Monk - Underground; Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life; Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire; Clifford Brown - The Beginning And The End; George Benson - Beyond The Blue Horizon; Herbie Hancock - Thrust; Wayne Shorter - Native Dancer; Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker - Carnegie Hall; Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me; Jim Hall - Concierto; Stanley Clarke - School Days; Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior; Weather Report - 08:30; John McLaughlan, Al Di Meola, & Paco De Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco; Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight; Carmen McRae - Carmen Sings Monk; Wynton Marsalis - Standard Times Vol.3.)

Edited April 24, 2011 by matteson

[alankin]

Noticed a 50 CD Beethoven EMI France collection available from Berkshire for $50:

Beethoven, The Symphonies; Overtures to Coriolan, Ruins of Athens, Egmont, Fidelio, Prometheus, Leonore {#3} [Cluytens cond.]; 'Triple' Concerto; The Two Romances for Violin & Orchestra; Violin Concerto [Fontanarosa and D.Oistrakh]; Piano Concerti; Choral Fantasia [Gilels and Gelber]; The Piano Sonatas [Heidsieck]; Diabelli Variations; Bagatelles [solchany]; The Violin Sonatas [Ferras and Barbizet]; The Cello Sonatas and Variations [Tortelier and Heidsieck]; The Piano Trios [Hungarian Trio]; The String Trios [Trio a cordes Francais]; The String Quartets [Hungarian Quartet]; Missa Solemnis; Mass in C [Giulini]; Fidelio [Karajan]; Christ on the Mount of Olives [Wangenhiem]; Asstd. Lieder [Nilsson and Fischer-Dieskau] + Chamber Music for Winds and Strings [incl. Septet and Octet]. (Running time approx. 55 hours)

http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com/search.php?row=0&brocode=148353&stocknum=&submit=Find+Item&text=&filter=all

[mjzee]

Mingus: Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Dynasty, Tijuana Moods - $9.68 from an Amazon reseller:

Mingus

Brubeck: Jazz Goes To College, Brubeck Plays Brubeck, Gone With The Wind, Brandenburg Gate Revisited, Jazz Impressions Of New York - $15.81 from an Amazon reseller:

Brubeck

[mellowT]

Have you guys noticed that jayandmarie on eBay seem to have found a fairly large stash of Mosaic Select - Piano Trios? The price has steadily decreased over the last 6 weeks worth of 5-day auctions. The last three sold in the $35 range (down from a high of $86), what I would consider a bargain for one of those sets that suddenly went OOP a couple of autumns ago.

Next auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310314153751

What you get: a sealed set with the UPC blotted out, slightly banged up because it gets shipped in a CD-sized bubble envelope instead of the box it deserves.

[colinmce]

I have seen that. Gerry Mulligan, too. Now where is that mountain of Freddie Slack and Johnny Richards?

[Morganized]

Have you guys noticed that jayandmarie on eBay seem to have found a fairly large stash of Mosaic Select - Piano Trios? The price has steadily decreased over the last 6 weeks worth of 5-day auctions. The last three sold in the $35 range (down from a high of $86), what I would consider a bargain for one of those sets that suddenly went OOP a couple of autumns ago.

Next auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310314153751

What you get: a sealed set with the UPC blotted out, slightly banged up because it gets shipped in a CD-sized bubble envelope instead of the box it deserves.

Picked mine up last week....

[mjzee]

This one looks interesting:

40 CDs for $27.08. I like Vivaldi, so I may pick it up.

[alankin]

Besides the Vivaldi Edition, Amazon also has pre-orders for some other Brilliant Classics boxes:

Complete Beethoven Edition (85 CDs for $29.57 [!], Grumiaux, Haitink, Vpo and Schiff)

Telemann Edition (31 CDs for $26.84)

Handel Portrait (42 / $27.07, Preston, Holloway, Borgstede,etc.)

Liszt Portrait (31 / $26.84, Brendel, Cziffra, Pizarro and Berma)

Anyone familiar with any of these?

Edited May 3, 2011 by alankin

[Stefan Wood]

Here is a review of the Vivaldi box, which seems pretty good, as a whole.

[Unk]

Compete Dexter Gordon on Blue Note 60s - $62.47, buy it now. (Just one, I assume)

Seems like a deal to me.

[B. Goren.]

Besides the Vivaldi Edition, Amazon also has pre-orders for some other Brilliant Classics boxes:

Complete Beethoven Edition (85 CDs for $29.57 [!], Grumiaux, Haitink, Vpo and Schiff)

Telemann Edition (31 CDs for $26.84)

Handel Portrait (42 / $27.07, Preston, Holloway, Borgstede,etc.)

Liszt Portrait (31 / $26.84, Brendel, Cziffra, Pizarro and Berma)

Anyone familiar with any of these?

I dont know these specific sets but in general I have good experience with Brilliant Classic. Maybe the performances they include in their sets are not considered to be the best available but they are certainly good performances and with an excellent sound quality.

Regarding Franz Liszt set: I have a set with all his Transcendental Etudes played by Georges Cziffra. If these recordings are included, I can definitely recommend (Cziffra's name is mentioned there).

Edited May 7, 2011 by B. Goren.

[alankin]

Unfortunately, Amazon removed from sale the above cheap Brilliant Classics sets.

[Stefan Wood]

Probably double checking the prices and/or the release date.

[mjzee]

Unfortunately, Amazon removed from sale the above cheap Brilliant Classics sets.

Interesting. And the Russian Legends live box that I got for $53.99 is now $179.99 at the cheapest. Anyway, I ordered the Vivaldi at the low price, so we'll see if it ships. My Casals box is still on backorder.

[greggery peccary]

I'm glad to have ordered the Beethoven and Vivaldi boxes. Wish now that I'd have sprung for the Handel too. Not likely to see those prices again.

[mellowT]

Miles and Trane - Complete Columbia Recordings 12.99 UK pounds.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004LR5JZO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

I ordered mine from U.S. Amazon on April 2 for $21.51, as it was slightly cheaper with the free shipping. It was a preorder expected to be released on April 5.

I'm still waiting for Amazon to ship it. They are "temporarily out of stock". Well, they never had stock to begin with.

Meanwhile, the U.K. site has it 2 pounds cheaper at 10.99. If anyone is thinking about this set, I'd order it from there or one of the Amazon Marketplace sellers.

[IanFenton]

Sorry if this has come up already but I was just wondering if anyone had taken advantage of the recent run of Concord boxes that have appeared in Italy. I purchased the Ellington Carnegie Hall box, and just discovered the rest:

Monk's Riverside Albums:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B003V1ARGC/

Bill Evans' Riverside & Milestone Albums:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B004I289FE/

Tatum Group and Solo Masterpieces:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00473ZK42/

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00499H6Z0/

[David Ayers]

Sorry if this has come up already but I was just wondering if anyone had taken advantage of the recent run of Concord boxes that have appeared in Italy. I purchased the Ellington Carnegie Hall box, and just discovered the rest:

Monk's Riverside Albums:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B003V1ARGC/

Bill Evans' Riverside & Milestone Albums:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B004I289FE/

Tatum Group and Solo Masterpieces:

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00473ZK42/

http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00499H6Z0/

Got all this stuff but - that's the way to do it!

[brownie]

Nice 7CD box from Sony France 'The Worlds of Stan Getz' just out:

Good price from Amazon.fr

Details in french and german!