Posts Tagged ‘boxed set’
John Coltrane: “Fearless Leader” and “Interplay”
It’s been quite a while since I started a series entitled Trials and Tribulations. In that series, I wrote about things that can drive us collectors up the wall …and down again. At the time I only hinted at it, but right now I’m planning on expanding on one of the issues I mostly left [...]
Recent Acquisitions
End of the year, which starts in Germany mid-summer with the sale of Christmas cookies at major supermarkets (go figure), is usually a busy shopping time. I don’t know why that is, but every year I seem to find bargain prices all over the place at a time when things should actually be full price [...]
Fleetwood Mac: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
As you know by now, I tend to review things here that I like. Some of you might even argue that I go overboard at times, recommending music I’ve grown to love with a truckload full of emotionally charged adjectives and adverbs. Be that as it may: I’m about to do it again. So, sit [...]
Jazz in Paris
This post has moved and will be deleted in February of 2010. New link: “Jazz in Paris”
Les Trésors du Jazz
Note: You can find some photos of these boxed sets (and others) in the “Le Chant du Monde” album of the livingwithmusic.com/gallery. OK,OK, I’ll admit it. I just dislike compilations, usually. Yes, sometimes a single artist’s best-of compilation is all you could possibly want of one single artist’s output (and even twelve to fifteen tunes [...]
Chris Rea: ‘Blue Guitars’
I have to admit that I have never held a project in my hands like this one. I do have boxed sets collecting an artist’s entire output that can’t match this one, I have label compilations that don’t reach the number of tunes on this collection and I have some lavishly-produced boxes that somehow don’t [...]
The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia
God, I don’t know how often I hit the various online shops to check for prices … until I managed to snatch up a copy for 60 Euro on Amazon.fr. In December of 2004, Christmas came two weeks early to this household when “Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944)”, a ten-disc collection [...]
London House Sessions, ‘61
I believe it was Ralph Waldo Emerson who once said “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” Well, color yourself happy and call me shallow or just – as I do – go for Seneca instead: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” No matter what, I was damn [...]
Cuba: I Am Time
Trying to jam-pack roughly 100 years of a nation’s music history onto 4 CDs is never an easy task, and, as far as I know, has never been done successfully either. Of course, “Cuba – I Am Time” cannot succeed either, but for the more casual listener it is an excellent overview that only falls [...]
Buddy Rich Sessions
In November of 2005, Mosaic Records will release released ” The Complete Argo, Emarcy and Verve Small Group Buddy Rich Sessions” (MD7-232). This boxed set will contain 7 CDs at a list price of $119. Mosaic Records, who are known for their excellent quality work in both research and mastering, have assembled all available sessions [...]