Favorite single-disc series?

[Big Beat Steve]

Could it be because that reissue LP migrated into a "Special Series" catalog when it was re-reissued on CD? I do not have the catalog on hand NOW but 4-digit OJC numbers do not fit into the standard numbering run of OJCs.

[CJ Shearn]

Probably for me it'd be OJC's all shades of BN from McMaster, RVG, Conn, SHM, Columbia/Legacy is huge, and I also like the Xanadu series.  I have 15 of those reissues, don't know if I'd like the whole series eventually to have.  Then recently, ECM.

[sidewinder]

I think of the current run the German Impulse reissue series is hard to beat. Excellent sound, good pricing and interesting selection of sessions, with effectively 2LPs on one CD. A good way to get acquainted with the more obscure stuff on Impulse.

[soulpope]

I believe the Ace "Songwriter Series" should get a mention here ....

[Dan Gould]

5 hours ago, soulpope said:

I believe the Ace "Songwriter Series" should get a mention here ....

Speaking of Ace I have to give major thumbs up to the Bayou series, Bluesin In and Rhythmn Bluesin' In.  Awesome music and every month I hope the Ace newsletter has a new edition of one or the other but I kinda suspect their running out of new music to issue.

[danasgoodstuff]

6 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Speaking of Ace I have to give major thumbs up to the Bayou series, Bluesin In and Rhythmn Bluesin' In.  Awesome music and every month I hope the Ace newsletter has a new edition of one or the other but I kinda suspect their running out of new music to issue.

 

Ace's Songs That Rocked the jukebox series chronicling R&B hits and Mrs. for various years is quite wonderful and I can only assume their other series for the later Soul years is equally good. 

[paul secor]

Another    for what Ace has released over the past 35 or so years.

[mikeweil]

On 30.3.2017 at 9:59 AM, Big Beat Steve said:

Could it be because that reissue LP migrated into a "Special Series" catalog when it was re-reissued on CD? I do not have the catalog on hand NOW but 4-digit OJC numbers do not fit into the standard numbering run of OJCs.

No - the OJC series simply counted on and passed the 1000 mark, only the prefix changed from OJC to OJCCD for the CDs. By that time they no longer had printed catalogues. It seems like the people in charge of the series had changed and did not look for a possible earlier reissue when a CD was attributed a new number.

There also was an OJC limited edition series that started at 1700.

I'd vote for the OJC series only if they had run it in a more consequent manner - sometimes they added bonus tracks to complete sessions, sometimes not, sometimes they even abandoned "original" LP compilations to assemble complete sessions, but more often kept the chaotic LP compilations of early Prestige material, in particular. In other cases they preferred to combine two LPs on one "twofer" CD but often omitted a track for playing time restrictions instead of reissuing the complete albums in the OJC series. Cuscuna at Blue Note was much more systematic in his approach. 

Edited April 1, 2017 by mikeweil

[soulpope]

13 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

 

Ace's Songs That Rocked the jukebox series chronicling R&B hits and Mrs. for various years is quite wonderful and I can only assume their other series for the later Soul years is equally good. 

I do strongly believe that ACE (primarily via their sublabel Kent) represents the state of the art reg Soul music reissues for the last four decades .... also other music segments are presented in high(est) quality .... unfortunately the only downside being their rather random approach regarding jazz reissues - conditional mainly due to the fact not having a dedicated jazz specialist on their payroll ....

[Dan Gould]

The Stompin' Volumes in the CD era are highly recommended.  22-25 tracks per edition, over 30 of them, filled with obscure to semi-obscure R&B and blues from the 40s to the 60s. And the CD issues have decent liners with info on artists and their other recording activity, plus label images. (The LPs had nothing of that).

[Big Beat Steve]

4 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

And the CD issues have decent liners with info on artists and their other recording activity, plus label images. (The LPs had nothing of that).

Yes they did have decent liner notes - i.e. many of the the later volumes from Vol. 11 onwards. I have the entire run of the Stompin' LPs, i.e. Vol. 1 to 27 (as well as their somewhat more Black R'n'R-oriented Savage Kick predecessors). I therefore have only very, very few of the Stompin' CDs as the duplications with the LPs for the most part are enormous. My loss? Maybe, but they will crop up again eventually.

[Dan Gould]

57 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

Yes they did have decent liner notes - i.e. many of the the later volumes from Vol. 11 onwards. I have the entire run of the Stompin' LPs, i.e. Vol. 1 to 27 (as well as their somewhat more Black R'n'R-oriented Savage Kick predecessors). I therefore have only very, very few of the Stompin' CDs as the duplications with the LPs for the most part are enormous. My loss? Maybe, but they will crop up again eventually.

I stand corrected; I own two LPs and they are entirely lacking in information of any sort.

[ghost of miles]

I pulled out Stanley Turrentine's Up At Minton's to feature on the show today (he was born on this day in 1934) and remembered that Blue Note's Doubletime CD series is another favorite of mine.