Fremeaux - get 'em

[AllenLowe]

I have long been an admirer of the French Fremeaux label, which does a great job on sound - good transfers without butchery; their Chicago: South SIde 1923-1930 is to die for - good clean miracle transfers on Paramounts like those of Ollie Powers and nice stuff from Young's Creole Orchestra. Also, Morton/Oliver duet and much much more. If you have any interest in that city's music from those days, get it. Also, an incredible trumpet solo on a Sammy Stewart record from 1924 (what year did Miley do his first growling solo? This one is amazing).

Edited October 25, 2011 by AllenLowe

[cih]

Their Peetie Wheatstraw double CD was one of the first things I bought - in fact it was the only Wheatstraw that was available in the shops for a long time (until the internet made everything available)

[colinmce]

I've been wanting to know a good source for them as I'm interested in racking up the Armstrongs. Anybody? There's an Ebay seller with the available volumes of the Louis series for a shade under $30 each. Good deal?

[Neal Pomea]

Ordered Chicago South Side 1923-30. Thank you for the recommendation.

[brownie]

The Frémeaux catalogue is a wonderful cornucopia of CD releases dealing with music, philosophy, litterature, history...

Frémeaux & Associés

[mattes]

  On 10/26/2011 at 5:06 AM, brownie said:

The Frémeaux catalogue is a wonderful cornucopia of CD releases dealing with music, philosophy, litterature, history...

Frémeaux & Associés

and Birds

[RiRiIII]

I ordered 2 weeks ago the 3 boxes of their complete Django Reinhardt (3 boxes, 7 double Cd sets each) from Amazon.co.UK. 42 GBP/box and 60 GBP/box, i.e. 162 GBP for the totality.

Very good price since normally each 2-CD set costs around 25 GBP, resulting to 21 sets x 25GBP/box = 525 GBP.

42 GBP

60 GBP

60 GBP

Edited October 26, 2011 by Alexandros

[seeline]

Amazon.com often has good prices on Fremeaux sets and individual discs... ditto for CD Universe.

I think shopping around is a good idea, since there seems to be quite a bit of variance in the markup/list price(s).

They offer some pretty amazing - and very hard to find - material from Brazil, Cuba and the French-speaking Caribbean.

Edited October 26, 2011 by seeline

[mattes]

Duke Ellington 1926-1941 2 CDs New FREMEAUX

$6.70

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000027Y71/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&m=A3RELLMKFLSZOJ

[Chuck Nessa]

  On 10/27/2011 at 12:33 AM, matteson said:

Duke Ellington 1926-1941 2 CDs New FREMEAUX

$6.70

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000027Y71/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&m=A3RELLMKFLSZOJ

Idiotic time frame.

[mattes]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000024XBZ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?ie=UTF8&m=A1KUFZLJ107W44

Charlie Parker 1942-47 2 CDs New Fremeaux

$8.84

[brownie]

  On 10/27/2011 at 12:35 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

  On 10/27/2011 at 12:33 AM, matteson said:

Duke Ellington 1926-1941 2 CDs New FREMEAUX

$6.70

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000027Y71/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?ie=UTF8&m=A3RELLMKFLSZOJ

Idiotic time frame.

Nothing wrong with the timeframe. The Quintessence double CD series are meant as introduction to the music of important artists.

The 26 tunes included are carefull selected (with good liner notes) representations of the Ducal music up to the Blanton years.

[Neal Pomea]

Amazon cancelled my order for Chicago: South SIde 1923-1930, no suppliers. Anyone know where to get this, even used?

[seeline]

Have you tried CD Universe?

Also... check Half.com and Ebay. You might get a good deal that way. (I used to buy a lot of discs through Half.com sellers and found some pretty rare titles for very reasonable prices.)

Edited to add: http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Chicago-South-Side-1923-1930-CD-Mar-2002-2-Discs-Fremeaux-Associes-/3507237#

Edited November 7, 2011 by seeline

[Neal Pomea]

Thanks! CD Universe had it and is shipping it today. Can't wait to hear it!

[Neal Pomea]

  On 10/25/2011 at 12:01 PM, AllenLowe said:

Also, an incredible trumpet solo on a Sammy Stewart record from 1924 (what year did Miley do his first growling solo? This one is amazing).

Just got this today and I'm hearing this growling trumpet solo for my first time now. WOW!

Sound is nice. Everything I have heard so far on Vol. 1 blows the sound of JSP's Breaking Out of New Orleans (a pretty good collection) out of the water.

Edited November 11, 2011 by Neal Pomea

[Harold_Z]

  On 11/7/2011 at 1:08 AM, Neal Pomea said:

Amazon cancelled my order for Chicago: South SIde 1923-1930, no suppliers. Anyone know where to get this, even used?

Same here!

[Neal Pomea]

  On 11/11/2011 at 1:39 AM, Harold_Z said:

  On 11/7/2011 at 1:08 AM, Neal Pomea said:

Amazon cancelled my order for Chicago: South SIde 1923-1930, no suppliers. Anyone know where to get this, even used?

Same here!

Get it through CD Universe? Worked in my case.

[seeline]

I've had no trouble with CD Universe, though I don't order from them often.

It seems as if they have better connections for distribution of titles from Europe and S. America - and, sometimes, better prices than Amazon.

It pays to shop around!