What Are You Listening To (Jazz) 2013

[Asimov]

Michel Legrand - Legrand Jazz

[Asimov]

Phineas Newborn Jr. - The Newborn Touch

[JETman]

I'm sure this isn't an original opinion, but I'm listening to Chris Potter's new one (The Sirens - ECM) and am finding it absolutely exceptional. Great stuff.

[walkin]

[dsmallio]

Chris Potter: The Sirens

[HutchFan]

Was reading Eddie Lambert's Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide earlier today at the library. The book prompted me to come home and listen to these (as if I needed an excuse ):


Duke Ellington - The Duke: Essential Collection 1927-1962
Disc 2
Duke's 1947-52 band is underappreciated, I think. One interesting tidbit: Lambert didn't think much of "Brown Betty" from 1951 -- but it's one of my favorites.



Duke Ellington - The Great Paris Concert
I love the "Tone Parallel to Harlem" on this CD. Lambert does too.

[JETman]

Originally Posted by HutchFan

Was reading Eddie Lambert's Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide earlier today at the library. The book prompted me to come home and listen to these (as if I needed an excuse ):


Duke Ellington - The Duke: Essential Collection 1927-1962
Disc 2
Duke's 1947-52 band is underappreciated, I think. One interesting tidbit: Lambert didn't think much of "Brown Betty" from 1951 -- but it's one of my favorites.



Duke Ellington - The Great Paris Concert
I love the "Tone Parallel to Harlem" on this CD. Lambert does too.

That's weird. I have the version which when it first came out said "The Columbia Years" on it instead of "The Essential Collection". Do you have a later version which somehow demonstrates Sony's upgraded view of what they possess in their vaults?

[HutchFan]

Originally Posted by JETman

That's weird. I have the version which when it first came out said "The Columbia Years" on it instead of "The Essential Collection". Do you have a later version which somehow demonstrates Sony's upgraded view of what they possess in their vaults?

Hmm. I don't know.

I think this set originally came out in a traditional "box set"/long-box format -- and a subsequent version (like mine) is in a regular-sized 3-CD jewelbox. But I don't think there's any difference in the recordings or masterings. Or at least that's my assumption.

Could that account for why your cover has different wording?


EDIT:

Looks like I was right. Here's a pic of the longbox version, which says "The Columbia Years" instead of "The Essential Collection."



The tracklist is exactly the same, and -- like I said before -- I assume the remasterings are the same too.

[JETman]

Originally Posted by HutchFan

Hmm. I don't know.

I think this set originally came out in a traditional "box set"/long-box format -- and a subsequent version (like mine) is in a regular-sized 3-CD jewelbox. But I don't think there's any difference in the recordings or masterings. Or at least that's my assumption.

Could that account for why your cover has different wording?


EDIT:

Looks like I was right. Here's a pic of the longbox version, which says "The Columbia Years" instead of "The Essential Collection."



The tracklist is exactly the same, and -- like I said before -- I assume the remasterings are the same too.

Mine is the jewel-cased size box. The longbox came after. Wonder why they changed the title.

FWIW, I also have the original Hancock cube. Yet another design disaster from our friends in the music industry. I play it so infrequently that to this day, it takes me at least 10 minutes to figure out how to open it whenever I do feel like listening

[HutchFan]

Originally Posted by JETman

Mine is the jewel-cased size box. The longbox came after. Wonder why they changed the title.

Yeah, that is strange. I had no idea they'd changed the title.

[bluemonkey]

Art Blakey: Ugetsu


Allen Eager: In the Land of oo-bla-dee

[Tom K]

Die Enttäuschung - Vier Halbe


... The latest one by the fantastic Berlin quartet ...

[Chutai]

Jimmy Smith w/ Stanley Turrentine – Prayer Meetin'


Miles Davis & Sonny Stitt – Round About Midnight

[bluemonkey]

10/27/2012

Allen Eager: An Ace Face
Discs 1 & 2 of 2

[HutchFan]

More Ellington this morning:



Historically Speaking: The Duke