Your favorite jazz acquisitions of 2015

[JSngry]

Oh yeah, pretty much the entire Brubeck/Desmond & Desmond solo catalog, live and studio. Some were better than others (in some cases a lot better than others), but the entire, ongoing experience proved to be illuminating, challenging, and ultimately caused more than one re-evaluation about some looooong held beliefs about that whole thing.

[SMB1968]

The Giant Awakens

Carter/Bradford live disc on Dark Tree

the East Wind reissue series

the "new" Ornette disc . . .

[Gheorghe]

Sonny Rollins Road Shows Vol 1 - 3

[jazzbo]

All three volumes of the Commodore Records box sets on Mosaic.

[medjuck]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

All three volumes of the Commodore Records box sets on Mosaic.

Wow! 

[jazzbo]

Yes, got a great price (less than what Mosaic originally charged) for what is probably not played volumes, and the seller was ten minutes away so no shipping! Still reeling from my good luck.

[mikeweil]

Great deal!

My favourite acquisitions were all the Mosaic sets I got through the year: both Ellingtons, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Oliver Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer Select; and a box set from JSP with early New Orleans stuff after a recommendation from Chuck Nessa of one of the sessions included. Since my wife prefers swing and earlier jazz, we have plenty to listen to, and she requested that I play authentic swing all day long during her upcoming sixtieth birthday in April - very happy to oblige!

Edited December 28, 2015 by mikeweil

[bluesoul]

The Rollins Village Gate box, the Earl Hines Mosaic set, and just last week the Sidney Bechet Bluebird Sessions box, which I've been looking forward to getting for a long time. 

[LWayne]

Favorite acquisition: William Parker-Wood Flute Songs. Out of print box. Been looking for some time. Got one in mint condition as a gift.

LWayne

 

[LWayne]

New Releases
	Artist	Title	Label
1	Graffiti	J.D. Allen	High Note
2	Matthew Shipp Trio	The Conduct of Jazz	Thirsty Ear
3	Matthew Shipp Trio	To Duke	Rogue Arts
4	Maria Schneider Orchestra	The Thompson Fields	Artist Share Records
5	Break Stuff	Vijay Iyer	ECM Records
6	Henry Threadgill and Zooid	In for a Penny, In for a Pound	Pi Recordings
7	Chris Potter	Imaginary Cities	ECM Records
8	Brad Mehldau	10 Years Solo Live	Nonesuch Records
9	Rudresh Mahanthappa	Bird Calls	ACT Records
10	Jack DeJohnette	Live in Chicago	ECM Records

Reissues
	Artist	Title	Label
1	Oscar Peterson	Exclusively for My Friends	MPS
2	Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry	Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962	Solar Records
3	Miles Davis	Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975	Columbia Records
4	Albert Heath	Kwanza/The First	Xanadu
5	Pat Martino & Jim Ridl	Nexus	High Note

[danasgoodstuff]

20 hours ago, LWayne said:

New Releases
	Artist	Title	Label
1	Graffiti	J.D. Allen	High Note
2	Matthew Shipp Trio	The Conduct of Jazz	Thirsty Ear
3	Matthew Shipp Trio	To Duke	Rogue Arts
4	Maria Schneider Orchestra	The Thompson Fields	Artist Share Records
5	Break Stuff	Vijay Iyer	ECM Records
6	Henry Threadgill and Zooid	In for a Penny, In for a Pound	Pi Recordings
7	Chris Potter	Imaginary Cities	ECM Records
8	Brad Mehldau	10 Years Solo Live	Nonesuch Records
9	Rudresh Mahanthappa	Bird Calls	ACT Records
10	Jack DeJohnette	Live in Chicago	ECM Records

Reissues
	Artist	Title	Label
1	Oscar Peterson	Exclusively for My Friends	MPS
2	Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry	Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962	Solar Records
3	Miles Davis	Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975	Columbia Records
4	Albert Heath	Kwanza/The First	Xanadu
5	Pat Martino & Jim Ridl	Nexus	High Note

Glad to see JD at the top of your list, I've been generally surprised and disappointed by how little love it's gotten in the year end lists.  Albums I enjoyed but haven't gotten around to buying yet - Willie & the Wheel and Derek Bailey's Ballads.

[sonnyhill]

Matthew Shipp Trio - To Duke

Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble - The Gospel According to Matthew and Michael

Matthew Shipp Trio - The Conduct of Jazz

Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound

Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry - Village Gate 1962

David S. Ware - Birth of a Being