Sony/Legacy sets on "Music on CD"

[Fer Urbina]

Dutch label Music on CD is reissuing some 10/12-year old sets previously on Sony/Legacy (more to come, I presume):

• Paul Desmond: The Complete RCA Albums Collection (6 CDs)
• Duke Ellington: The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1951-1958 (9 CDs)
• Dexter Gordon: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (7 CDs)
• Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1976-1982/The Jaco Years (6 CDs)
• Nina Simone: The Complete RCA Albums Collection (9 CDs)

I've got the Ellington (I missed it the first time it came out) and from the small print it is a verbatim reissue of the 2012 set (which was discussed elsewhere in these forums).

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[jazzbo]

On a jazz listening thread I started on another forum years ago a poster has said he got the Ellington and one disc was duplicating another (though labeled correctly). He asked for a replacement set . . . same problem. I hope it's an isolated issue as that is a fantastic box set.

Edited October 27, 2022 by jazzbo

[sidewinder]

Missed the Dexter the first time round so might be interested in that one.

I wonder if they will reissue the Dave Brubeck Studio set?

[felser]

I have them all except the Desmond (have the earlier box set with the same material).  Every one of them is well done.  There are other sets which could/should also be reissued.  Weather Report Vol. 1, Woody Shaw, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Brubeck come immediately to mind. 

Edited October 27, 2022 by felser

[mjzee]

Listening now to their Dexter box.  Fine sound, booklet enclosed.  I would love for them to rerelease the second Duke box. 

[Bluesnik]

1 hour ago, felser said:

There are other sets which could/should also be reissued.  Weather Report Vol. 1

That's one I would be interested in too. Was lucky enough to snatch Vol. 2, but couldn't find a copy of the first box, which covers I believe 1970-75. And since it's from 2012, I guess, I was hoping it might get reissued in 2022.

[Chuck Nessa]

Two caveats; The first Duke box repeated an editing error in Such Sweet Thunder and the 2nd Ellington box stopped 2 titles short by ignoring All American In Jazz and Midnight In Paris.

 

[ianfaith]

9 hours ago, jazzbo said:

On a jazz listening thread I started on another forum years ago a poster has said he got the Ellington and one disc was duplicating another (though labeled correctly). He asked for a replacement set . . . same problem. I hope it's an isolated issue as that is a fantastic box set.

I had the same issue. Rather than return the set to the vendor, I reached out to Music on CD directly via their website. They responded quickly and offered to send a corrected disc, so they must be aware of the problem. Fingers crossed.

[Gheorghe]

The Dexter box must be good, I heard the CBS-All-Stars in Montreux and it was great to hear Dexter or other acoustic aera giants combined with first hand masters of electric jazz like Bob James and George Duke, Billy Cobham and so on and it was nice to hear fusion-associated musicians playing straight ahead and on the other hand hear a Stan Getz doing Night Crawler with Bob James....
I remember those times very well, the slow resurection of acoustic jazz just at that beginning opended space for such "marriages of acoustic and electric", you also can hear it on stuff of J.J. Johnson-Nat Adderly combined with people like Billy Childs......just wonderful, and quite overlooked now.....

[jazzbo]

9 hours ago, ianfaith said:

I had the same issue. Rather than return the set to the vendor, I reached out to Music on CD directly via their website. They responded quickly and offered to send a corrected disc, so they must be aware of the problem. Fingers crossed.

Glad that was corrected!

[Fer Urbina]

9 hours ago, ianfaith said:

I had the same issue. Rather than return the set to the vendor, I reached out to Music on CD directly via their website. They responded quickly and offered to send a corrected disc, so they must be aware of the problem. Fingers crossed.

Thanks jazzbo and ianfaith! I just checked and indeed in my copy "Bal Masque" has the music of "Indigos"!

We'll see how it goes.

[Fer Urbina]

18 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Two caveats; The first Duke box repeated an editing error in Such Sweet Thunder and the 2nd Ellington box stopped 2 titles short by ignoring All American In Jazz and Midnight In Paris.

About the first one, yes: As far as I can tell, they're all new masters by Mark Wilder and Maria Triana (Battery Park Studios), except for the Rosemary Clooney, Such Sweet Thunder, and Black, Brown and Beige, which are, respectively, verbatim copies of CK65506 (Didier C. Deutsch), and Phil Schaap's CK65568 and CK65566 (hence the wrong coda on "Up and Down"—a pity that this wasn't corrected, given that Sony does have a digital master of the correct one, released on the compilation Ralph Ellison - Living with Music, CK 85935).

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[Stonewall15]

A Columbia/Sony Brubeck CD set would be very desirable if it contained the two previously unissued CDs of LPs- "The Last Time We Saw Paris" and "Compadres".

[Pim]

The Shaw box is terrific. 

[mjzee]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

The Shaw box is terrific. 

They can also do Artie Shaw.

[Pim]

2 minutes ago, mjzee said:

They can also do Artie Shaw.

That Shaw isn’t my cup of tea. But I definitely still enjoy the Woody box. And I’m not referring to Woody Herman 

[romualdo]

On 28/10/2022 at 0:26 AM, Fer Urbina said:

About the first one, yes: As far as I can tell, they're all new masters by Mark Wilder and Maria Triana (Battery Park Studios), except for the Rosemary Clooney, Such Sweet Thunder, and Black, Brown and Beige, which are, respectively, verbatim copies of CK65506 (Didier C. Deutsch), and Phil Schaap's CK65568 and CK65566 (hence the wrong coda on "Up and Down"—a pity that this wasn't corrected, given that Sony does have a digital master of the correct one, released on the compilation Ralph Ellison - Living with Music, CK 85935).

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Isn't the correct LP master (tk #12) on the 1991 Euro CD (469140-2) of SST while it's tk #1 on the US 1999 (65568) disc plus the box set

[miles65]

3 hours ago, romualdo said:

Isn't the correct LP master (tk #12) on the 1991 Euro CD (469140-2) of SST while it's tk #1 on the US 1999 (65568) disc plus the box set

Yes it is.

[Fer Urbina]

On 10/28/2022 at 11:38 AM, Fer Urbina said:

Thanks jazzbo and ianfaith! I just checked and indeed in my copy "Bal Masque" has the music of "Indigos"!

We'll see how it goes.

I wrote to MusiconCD through their contact page and they have delivered the correct CD.

Thanks again for the heads up!

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[jazzbo]

Good news!

[ianfaith]

My replacement was "delivered" yesterday, but arrived in the form of a torn and empty envelope. Wrote to MusiconCD and they immediately sent another one. Great service — a rarity these days.

[soulpope]

On 10/30/2022 at 5:17 PM, Pim said:

The Shaw box is terrific. 

Yep ....