Ahmad Jamal - Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse

[thirdtry]

The only site I'm seeing anything on is Amazon UK.  With a Dec. 1st street date I bet we'll see pre-orders in the next week or two at the usual places.

[tranemonk]

Does anyone have the prior 2 sets? I'm debating. How does it compare with the Mosaic set? I'm annoyed that most of the music is under 80 minutes and could have been put on one disc instead of two. I haven't gotten it as I think the Mosaic is enough but.... 😕

[jazzbo]

In my opinion the music is significantly different than the Mosaic set. . . but equally interesting. Sound is decent. I have both the previous two, and am looking forward to this one.

[kh1958]

The first two volumes are terrific, and I have eagerly ordered the third volume.

[felser]

3 hours ago, jazzbo said:

In my opinion the music is significantly different than the Mosaic set. . . but equally interesting. Sound is decent. I have both the previous two, and am looking forward to this one.

Yes, Jamal's playing became more muscular around the time of the 'Extensions' album

[tranemonk]

15 hours ago, jazzbo said:

In my opinion the music is significantly different than the Mosaic set. . . but equally interesting. Sound is decent. I have both the previous two, and am looking forward to this one.

I was listening to one cut on the radio and there was a lot of hissing... Obviously with live recordings - it's a hit or miss, sonically.... how's the sound compared to the Mosaic set?

[hbbfam]

13 hours ago, kh1958 said:

The first two volumes are terrific, and I have eagerly ordered the third volume.

Where did you order volume 3 (1966-68)?

[jazzbo]

2 hours ago, tranemonk said:

I was listening to one cut on the radio and there was a lot of hissing... Obviously with live recordings - it's a hit or miss, sonically.... how's the sound compared to the Mosaic set?

It's a totally different type of recording than the Mosaic, it's really hard to compare them. I'll say that a bit of hiss does not bother me, and I have no real complaints about the sound of these two volumes.

1 hour ago, hbbfam said:

Where did you order volume 3 (1966-68)?

I myself ordered Vol. 3 from amazon.com

[B. Clugston]

Just picked up Vol. 3. Great stuff from 1966 to 1968, all with Jamil Nasser and Frank Gant.

[tranemonk]

Are the liner notes... REALLY Good??? I'm leaning toward getting the digital, especially since each disc is only about 90 minutes or so. The digital is much cheaper given that we're talking about all three sets....

[tranemonk]

54 minutes ago, felser said:

 

Huh?

[felser]

25 minutes ago, tranemonk said:

Huh?

That was a phone accident.  I do  much better posting from laptop.

[tranemonk]

2 hours ago, felser said:

That was a phone accident.  I do  much better posting from laptop.

I've been there...:)

[B. Clugston]

19 hours ago, tranemonk said:

Are the liner notes... REALLY Good??? I'm leaning toward getting the digital, especially since each disc is only about 90 minutes or so. The digital is much cheaper given that we're talking about all three sets....

Nothing revelatory. Pretty sure some of them are repeated from the earlier sets. The music is excellent.

[tranemonk]

5 hours ago, B. Clugston said:

Nothing revelatory. Pretty sure some of them are repeated from the earlier sets. The music is excellent.

Thanks. I don't even play CDs anymore but I like having the physical media for the most important records. I've had more than one instance of losing music that only existed in digital form. Even the best hard drives get corrupted and crash.

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I got the downloads for all three sets from Qobuz.    Their downloader app is a piece of shit, constantly breaking and today I was forced to download each track individually but it's about half the price of the cds.  

Whenever I can I usually get downloads from Presto rather than Qobuz - their software is better and the online transaction is smoother.  Qobuz sucks but tends to have more jazz.

I always keep a few backups on portable hard drives which are only turned on now and then to add new albums.  A 512 gigabyte sd card in a portable player also functions as a backup to many of the music files I have on my hard drives.

A friend had the two earlier sets of cd's and I looked at the liner notes.  Nice to read but not all that essential.

Edited December 4, 2023 by Stompin at the Savoy