Best Live Boxed Set?

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, 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.

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]

4 hours ago, 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.

Yes - THAT one, too!

[adh1907]

On 4/20/2024 at 7:32 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.

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]

3 hours ago, adh1907 said:

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

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 4:56 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.

Yes

[soulpope]

On 4/20/2024 at 6:18 PM, mjzee said:

Excellent choice indeed ....

[Bob_Bobson]

[Ron S]

1 minute ago, Bob_Bobson said:

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

[EKE BBB]

4 hours ago, John L said:

Another candidate -

 

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 12:42 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

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

 

[tranemonk]

22 hours ago, hbbfam said:

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

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]

1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

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

 

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 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 1:07 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....

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

[soulpope]

19 hours ago, 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.

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]

9 hours ago, 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

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