Fats Navarro: what else do I need?

[Pete C]

Jazz Discography

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Here's the link again:

http://www.jazzdisco.org/fats-navarro/catalog/album-index/

[mr jazz]

aren't there some things on the Fats Proper box that aren't readily available elsewhere?

[ElginThompson]

Jazz Discography

Bad link (double http://)

Here's the link again:

http://www.jazzdisco.org/fats-navarro/catalog/album-index/

Ooops! Thanks. :hat tip.

[mracz]

Sorry, I mentioned in the first post that I do have that.

I have more Fats than I realized. Still, thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna look out for that concert with Bird.

Get the Rare Live Recordings issue (RLR), which is speed-corrected. The Columbia LPs and the other issues I've heard are all mastered at the wrong pitch (too high); after decades of listening to the uncorrected versions, hearing the RLR version was a revelation. The music is just as exciting, but it sounds so much better...

[romualdo]

Sorry, I mentioned in the first post that I do have that.

I have more Fats than I realized. Still, thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna look out for that concert with Bird.

Get the Rare Live Recordings issue (RLR), which is speed-corrected. The Columbia LPs and the other issues I've heard are all mastered at the wrong pitch (too high); after decades of listening to the uncorrected versions, hearing the RLR version was a revelation. The music is just as exciting, but it sounds so much better...

mark

Does that include the UK 4CD Parker Birdland Box (1995)?

[Pete C]

mark

Does that include the UK 4CD Parker Birdland Box (1995)?

Are you talking about the Ember set, in the long bookfold box? That's the one I have.

[mracz]

Sorry, I mentioned in the first post that I do have that.

I have more Fats than I realized. Still, thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna look out for that concert with Bird.

Get the Rare Live Recordings issue (RLR), which is speed-corrected. The Columbia LPs and the other issues I've heard are all mastered at the wrong pitch (too high); after decades of listening to the uncorrected versions, hearing the RLR version was a revelation. The music is just as exciting, but it sounds so much better...

mark

Does that include the UK 4CD Parker Birdland Box (1995)?

I've never heard that set, so I can't say! But as everyone else has said, essential in whatever guise you can get it. BTW, the Fats biography from a few years ago has an excellent discography and detailed critical consideration of the recordings. It's a good read in any case.