Best Live Boxed Set?

[mjazzg]

  On 4/21/2024 at 3:20 PM, Pim said:

Coltrane's Village Vanguard Box set is my favorite probably. There's not a single bad note at that set. It's one of the few sets where I really don't mind the fact that there are four takes of the same track on it.

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That's a good call 

I'd also add a vote for Peter Brötzmann's two sets '3 Nights In Oslo' and 'Long Story Short'

[gmonahan]

Tough call, but I think I agree with those who've listed the Basie Live Roulette set on Mosaic. That said, the Savory set........

 

[Face of the Bass]

I actually think the Miles Blackhawk sets are underrated. Other than the Plugged Nickel box, it's probably the live Miles I prefer the most, at least from his pre-electric era. 

[BFrank]

  On 4/21/2024 at 3:20 PM, Pim said:

Coltrane's Village Vanguard Box set is my favorite probably. There's not a single bad note at that set. It's one of the few sets where I really don't mind the fact that there are four takes of the same track on it.

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Yes - THAT one, too!

[adh1907]

  On 4/20/2024 at 6:32 PM, Stonewall15 said:

The Complete Crazy Sunday at the Lighthouse. 6-CD set of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars in 1953 released by the Los Angeles Jazz Institute in 2023.

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Interesting. Not familiar with this, has it ever been released publicly? What’s the line up?

[jazzbo]

I don't have it but here are the details:

https://www.discogs.com/release/29224915-Various-LA-Jazz-Institute-Presents-The-Complete-Crazy-Sunday-At-The-Lighthouse-September-13-1953

[Kevin Bresnahan]

  On 4/21/2024 at 7:40 PM, adh1907 said:

Interesting. Not familiar with this, has it ever been released publicly? What’s the line up?

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Forget trying to get a copy… I found it pretty much impossible. It was very limited and you had to be a LAJI member to order it. I tried joining just to get it but no matter what I tried, I could not get that sucker into my cart to check out. I gave up, figuring some day they’ll offer it as a download. 😀😀

[GA Russell]

I vote for

[hbbfam]

I hate these threads.  They always seem to cost me money.

[EKE BBB]

[John L]

Another candidate -

 

[Д.Д.]

  On 4/21/2024 at 2:56 AM, mhatta said:

Japanese free saxophonist Kaoru Abe may not be well known here, but a 3-CDs compilation of his 1971 shows at several universities and a jazz cafe in the Tohoku region in Japan came out a few years ago and was very moving. It is well comparable to Eric Dolphy, in my opinion.

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Yes

[soulpope]

  On 4/20/2024 at 4:18 PM, mjzee said:

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Excellent choice indeed ....

[Bob_Bobson]

[Ron S]

  On 4/23/2024 at 2:28 PM, Bob_Bobson said:

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I was thinking of posting this one, but figured that someone else would eventually get to it.  👍

[EKE BBB]

  On 4/23/2024 at 10:39 AM, John L said:

Another candidate -

 

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Definitely.... yessss!!! I have all the individual CDs that make up most of the boxed set. To be savored in small doses.

[gmonahan]

  On 4/21/2024 at 7:42 PM, jazzbo said:

I don't have it but here are the details:

https://www.discogs.com/release/29224915-Various-LA-Jazz-Institute-Presents-The-Complete-Crazy-Sunday-At-The-Lighthouse-September-13-1953

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Where do I go to buy this? Discogs lists it as existing but has no copies for sale.

 

[tranemonk]

  On 4/22/2024 at 10:01 PM, hbbfam said:

I hate these threads.  They always seem to cost me money.

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Okay, that was my bad.. 😵 Not only may it cost me some money but I apparently have forgotten all the live sets I do own.... I hate getting old....

[jazzbo]

  On 4/23/2024 at 7:44 PM, gmonahan said:

Where do I go to buy this? Discogs lists it as existing but has no copies for sale.

 

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Look above in this thread, this was just offered with membership in the LA Jazz Institute and that opportunity has apparently ended.

Edited April 23, 2024 by jazzbo

[mhatta]

I think Bill Evans's final live box sets, such as Consecration, recorded just before his death, were valuable in that they highlighted the essence of Evans as a musician -- fundamentally the Bud Powell successor, not a lyrical cocktail pianist. Obviously he was very ill, but It is like a supernova just before it explodes, or a great meteorite just before it burns out.

[hbbfam]

  On 4/23/2024 at 8:07 PM, tranemonk said:

Okay, that was my bad.. 😵 Not only may it cost me some money but I apparently have forgotten all the live sets I do own.... I hate getting old....

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That is too funny. That was going to be the other half of my post, realizing I already own it.

[soulpope]

  On 4/24/2024 at 11:06 AM, mhatta said:

I think Bill Evans's final live box sets, such as Consecration, recorded just before his death, were valuable in that they highlighted the essence of Evans as a musician -- fundamentally the Bud Powell successor, not a lyrical cocktail pianist. Obviously he was very ill, but It is like a supernova just before it explodes, or a great meteorite just before it burns out.

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Well said ....

[romualdo]

This relatively recent AA release (5LP/4CD) should certainly be up there

[danasgoodstuff]

Trane at the Vanguard, Miles at the Cellar Door, Jimi's Groovy Children, and I must be forgetting something else.

Dolphy & Booker Little at the Five Spot

[hbbfam]

  On 4/25/2024 at 9:38 AM, danasgoodstuff said:

Trane at the Vanguard, Miles at the Cellar Door, Jimi's Groovy Children, and I must be forgetting something else.

Dolphy & Booker Little at the Five Spot

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Turns out this box has all of the Five Spot tracks.