JohnS Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 1 hour ago, GA Russell said: Amazon UK Thursday charged my card $23.93. No cause for complaint there then. It's hardly any different from the UK price. Quote
felser Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 $18.34 and shipping from Amazon resellers (UK based, through US Amazon.com site). Wish now I had waited rather than preordering through U.K. $2-$3 mistake. (I'll survive it ). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZCTV18/?tag=thesecdis-20 Quote
Clunky Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 Disc One sounds very good on first spin. Liner notes make the point this is the first legit commercial issue of any of the material with "the proper permissions' i.e. not just asking grandma if it's ok. As per usual nice package from Sony. Quote
JohnS Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) I've just sampled the Copenhagen concert. Sounds fine, taken from the original radio tapes, so much better than my Royal Jazz boot. Edited March 23, 2018 by JohnS Quote
mjazzg Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 Stop it with these positive first impressions, I can feel my will weakening... Quote
gmonahan Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 1 hour ago, mjazzg said: Stop it with these positive first impressions, I can feel my will weakening... gregmo Quote
Clunky Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Clunky said: Disc One sounds very good on first spin. Liner notes make the point this is the first legit commercial issue of any of the material with "the proper permissions' i.e. not just asking grandma if it's ok. As per usual nice package from Sony. I’ve briefly compared the Paris set to the sound from the 2CD Laserlight/Delta (2002) set. The new Sony set is properly in mono and seems to have fewer audible tape flaws. The laserlight CD is a stereo transfer from the mono tapes ( I think ). Overall the new set sounds a bit better. Quote
jlhoots Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 1 hour ago, mjazzg said: Stop it with these positive first impressions, I can feel my will weakening... Stay strong!! Quote
sidewinder Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 3 hours ago, mjazzg said: Stop it with these positive first impressions, I can feel my will weakening... Resistance is futile..(I’m buckling fast) Quote
CJ Shearn Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 43 minutes ago, sidewinder said: Resistance is futile..(I’m buckling fast) Me too Quote
erwbol Posted March 23, 2018 Report Posted March 23, 2018 Just cave in. These are essential recordings. I have been obsessing over them ever since I read Porter's Coltrane biography and bought the Paris and Stockholm discs around 2000. Quote
medjuck Posted March 24, 2018 Report Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, felser said: $18.34 and shipping from Amazon resellers (UK based, through US Amazon.com site). Wish now I had waited rather than preordering through U.K. $2-$3 mistake. (I'll survive it ). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZCTV18/?tag=thesecdis-20 That offer seems to have disappeared and even if you pay the full Amazon price they're not shipping for 8-11 days. ( Fortunately I have all these plus all or most of the other concerts from the tour on pretty good sounding cds. ) Edited March 24, 2018 by medjuck Quote
Brad Posted March 24, 2018 Report Posted March 24, 2018 I ordered it today but it’s not scheduled to arrive until early April. Quote
felser Posted March 24, 2018 Report Posted March 24, 2018 12 hours ago, medjuck said: That offer seems to have disappeared and even if you pay the full Amazon price they're not shipping for 8-11 days. ( Fortunately I have all these plus all or most of the other concerts from the tour on pretty good sounding cds. ) Mine has shipped from amazon.co.uk (though they may actually ship it to me from USA, I assume), so guess I'm happy afterall! Quote
Jordan Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 What's happening with this release? The Amazon price jumped to 49.98 USD in the US. I preordered it a long time ago at the lower price, but it hasn't arrived yet and the tracking says there's been a shipping delay. The 8-11 days thing seems to me to be due to more demand than there is supply, but that is pure conjecture based on no facts by me. I know that almost everyone here has had these recordings from previous releases, but personally I've never heard them. I'm excited about it but not angry about the delay. I know it will arrive eventually. Quote
GA Russell Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 Not to beat a dead horse, but... I placed my order with Amazon UK Dec. 19. At that time, I was told that it would arrive April 4 - 9. Today the website says April 10. Saturday I received an email from them saying that it had been shipped. My price was 13.83 GBP + 3.08 GBP shipping = 16.91 GBP. My bank has not notified me of a currency exchange fee that I expected. Perhaps that is included in the $23.93 I have been charged. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 Have this one playing right now. The Olympia material is beyond great! Miles and Coltrane sound like they are truly trying to kill each other! By far the most ferocious playing between those two that I’ve ever heard. If you don’t think you need this set, you think very, VERY wrongly! I may even spring for the actual physical box on this one. Quote
JSngry Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 Having all these bootlegs, I'd like to get this iteration for the cleaner sound, and the popularly sanctioned distribution of wealth engaged and implied therein, actually, but I'm going to need the prices to drop first, to be frank, honestly. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 $50 for a four CD box set? $12.50 per disc seems reasonable. ? Quote
mjazzg Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 Cheapest on UK Amazon is currently £16.50. That's tantamount to giving it away...well not quite but you get my drift. Still haven't weakened Quote
JSngry Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 22 minutes ago, Scott Dolan said: $50 for a four CD box set? $12.50 per disc seems reasonable. ? Totally. But I'm not looking for reasonable, I'm looking for cheap. I already have the music, now I'm just looking for the object. So, some slightly used set with all the particles intact enough will be good enough for me. No matter, yeah, Olympia is one of the greatest moments of the 20th Century, period. Quote
Scott Dolan Posted March 25, 2018 Report Posted March 25, 2018 Olympia is fucking transcendent. And the audience knew it. Right then. In real time. Quote
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