Brubeck's Time Further Out is $3.99 on CD with auto-rip (and $9.99 for MP3!)
ETA, thanks, anose. Just bought the Brubeck comp. A reviewer at Amazon provided the following breakdown:
Tracks 1-5 are Jazz at Oberlin
Tracks 6-11 are Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954
Tracks 12 - 26 are from CBS radio broadcasts released as On the Radio: Live 1956-1957
Tracks 27 - 33 are Newport 1958. The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond
Tracks 34 - 45 are At the Free Trade Hall 1958
Tracks 46 - 58 are In Europe Live in Copenhagen March 5 1958
Tracks 59 - 65 are Live in Portland 1959
I just want to toss a rec at this Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam - it must have been about 20 years ago I first started paying attention to him, and it was a very pleasing revelation that real country music was still alive and well as opposed to the Nashville pop product that has dominated the country charts so much of the time. Music with grit, that you could kick back listening to in a honky tonk dive, my kind of country. At $2.99 I'd call it worth a toss if you haven't listened to him - it's a good cross section of his hits, I just would have included the I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide with ZZ Top track.
Yoakam has the grit and the twang because he most likely heard that kind of music early on. Although Wikipedia says he is from Pikeville, Ky., both Floyd County and Johnson County claim him. Loretta Lynn is from that area, and you can still hear people singing that way today in the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg. Many of the old timers in my family are now gone, but they used to bring fiddles and guitars to family reunions and sing that old-timey hillbilly music. Yep, Dwight's got the sound, even if his family left Kentucky.
Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks are a mere $2.99 each. I assume everyone here already has these, pass the links on to the next generation....two great places to start with Dylan.
Amazon CD Deal - got this Oscar Peterson Trio box set - Songbooks - from Movie-Mars CDs, one of the other sellers listed there, for $7.37 plus $2.98 shipping. Import set, of three albums, each a songbook - Cole Porter, Ellington, and Gershwin. Each has 24 tracks, divided 1-12, and 13-24, between the 1952 trio of Oscar, Barney Kessel and Ray Brown on the first half, then the 1959 trio of Oscar, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen on drums for the latter half. Great music - five star rec. This captures what were three individual import songbook albums, and there are a couple more floating around, like the Jerome Kern volume. The 1952 were originally on Mercury/Clef, and I think the 1959 albums were on Verve. This consoles me partially, 36 tracks worth, for the pangs I felt from seeing the listing for the OOP Mosaic Oscar Peterson Mercury/Clef box that features the 1952 lineup with Barney Kessel. The Verve Complete Mercury/Clef box that features Herb Ellis and Ray Brown with Oscar (circa 1953-1956) is one of the jewels in the crown of wonderful stuff I've gotten from Guvera.
Edit 3/16 - listened to this again at work yesterday, and it is beautiful stuff. Every co-worker who heard it wanted to know who it was which is something.
Does anyone not have this? Still listening to the cassette or 8-track? $2.99 this week - I'm guessing maybe it's been 40 years? Yup, that's it. Damn, that's something to make you feel your age.
Might be time for me to get Joe Farrall's Outback. Otherwise, I have to confess I've stopped looking at many of these sales because I either own many of them or am just not interested in the offering.
Another CD box set - Bud Powell Tempus Fugue-it - a Proper UK 4 disc set, a sort of early career anthology, featuring Bud Powell with other outfits - Cootie William's band, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Jay Johnson, Sonny Stitt - and on the later discs his own trios. Very good stuff, great musicians, by Discs 3 & 4 the bebop is cooking. A wonderful thing, and props to Proper, is the detailed book with full personnel listings, and discussion - there are a lot of Savoy and Clef sides here. Got it from one of the other sellers, Importcds, for $15 something with the shipping. Totally happy with it.
Thanks, dell - it's over 14 hours actually, and doesn't overlap at all with the original Big Bach Box according to one reviewer. Oh, bother - reading the description from the Bach Guild in the review section I realized I'd forgotten completely about the Haydn Symphonies collection from them - my classical collection is out of control, but how do you pass up this kind of deal? Someday I'll retire and maybe I can stay awake long enough to listen to some of this. It's the one genre I get more resistance from co-workers about than any other, well maybe with the exception of Ozzy or Iron Maiden. They say it makes them sleepy (the classical, not Maiden). I don't even try playing opera at work.
I find their business model fascinating. To a degree it's predicated on people not being able to pass up the price even if they never actually listen to the music. I am several box sets behind in listening, and have not even downloaded some of them from the cloud. Though getting amazon's cloud player set up on my ipad and my ipad connected to my stereo did result in a long evening of Vivaldi recently.
I am one of those that cannot resist the 99 cent Big Box. Anyone get that today? I have 5 tracks fail to download, I assume because the file names are ridiculously long or have colons and slashes. I cannot find anything in the Amazon downloader to change the file naming preferences, eMusicJ will save the file by track number alone if I need to, that would solve this problem.
Amazon CS has been contacted, and I have already received the instructions for idiots boilerplate email. Hoping for a real human response soon.
Germanprof - like you I'm way behind in listening, especially after my purchase in the last 24 hours hours of so of Bigger Bach, Big Vivaldi, Big Mahler and Big Brahms. Nearly 30 hours of music for less than I spent more on lunch on McDonald's yesterday.
Plong - I didn't have any trouble downloading all the tracks on the Bigger Bach Set.
Bach Guild Big Box Set Anniversary Sale
One week sale ($0.99) pricing all titles to celebrate the anniversary of the revival of the Bach Guild catalog. March 28 April 7, 2013
Craziness. I can't imagine the performers or their heirs are seeing any royalties at these prices.
Something's up over there - I just ran a Search for $3.99 and got these. Please take particular note of Old Yellow Moon by Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell - really like that album.
Bunch of Zep albums.
Two albums by a band called Halestorm that was rec'd to me that I'm listening at. I'm gonna take a chance on their first album, oddly, titled Halestorm. Sounds somewhere between Heart and Evanescence, or a touch of angry Kelly Clarkson with a good rocking band. Ended up buying the new album too.
For $3.99 I'm taking Dwight Yoakam's last album 3 Pears too.
Oooohhh, good stuff on there. In addition to the new Foxygen, there's the new Foals, The Joy Formidable, Autre Ne Veut, Parquet Courts, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and that's just the stuff issued in 2013.
I thought I'd at least get another day. Listening to the Autre Ne Veut on Spotify and kicking myself for not picking it up. It's annoying because all of these month long sales have the same stuff. They finally put up some new sales material and it's over right away.
Oh well, maybe I'll order it direct from Mexican Summer instead...
I wonder if it's an intentional mechanism. Put things on sale long enough for folk to notice and form the thought that they want a certain item then put the price back up - how many then buy it in the following days anyway because of the attachment formed even though the price is higher? I'd wager more than would have bought it had it not been on sale.
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ETA, thanks, anose. Just bought the Brubeck comp. A reviewer at Amazon provided the following breakdown:
Tracks 1-5 are Jazz at Oberlin
Tracks 6-11 are Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954
Tracks 12 - 26 are from CBS radio broadcasts released as On the Radio: Live 1956-1957
Tracks 27 - 33 are Newport 1958. The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond
Tracks 34 - 45 are At the Free Trade Hall 1958
Tracks 46 - 58 are In Europe Live in Copenhagen March 5 1958
Tracks 59 - 65 are Live in Portland 1959
$0.99 for 138 tracks (7:16:08)
I just want to toss a rec at this Very Best Of Dwight Yoakam - it must have been about 20 years ago I first started paying attention to him, and it was a very pleasing revelation that real country music was still alive and well as opposed to the Nashville pop product that has dominated the country charts so much of the time. Music with grit, that you could kick back listening to in a honky tonk dive, my kind of country. At $2.99 I'd call it worth a toss if you haven't listened to him - it's a good cross section of his hits, I just would have included the I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide with ZZ Top track.
Edit 3/16 - listened to this again at work yesterday, and it is beautiful stuff. Every co-worker who heard it wanted to know who it was which is something.
Amazon CS has been contacted, and I have already received the instructions for idiots boilerplate email. Hoping for a real human response soon.
Germanprof - like you I'm way behind in listening, especially after my purchase in the last 24 hours hours of so of Bigger Bach, Big Vivaldi, Big Mahler and Big Brahms. Nearly 30 hours of music for less than I spent more on lunch on McDonald's yesterday.
Plong - I didn't have any trouble downloading all the tracks on the Bigger Bach Set.
The Bach Guild homepage put up this announcement today:
Bach Guild Big Box Set Anniversary Sale
One week sale ($0.99) pricing all titles to celebrate the anniversary of the revival of the Bach Guild catalog. March 28 April 7, 2013
Craziness. I can't imagine the performers or their heirs are seeing any royalties at these prices.
It also seems to include Low's The Invisible Way, Ducktails the Flowerlane, and others.
Bunch of Zep albums.
Two albums by a band called Halestorm that was rec'd to me that I'm listening at. I'm gonna take a chance on their first album, oddly, titled Halestorm. Sounds somewhere between Heart and Evanescence, or a touch of angry Kelly Clarkson with a good rocking band. Ended up buying the new album too.
For $3.99 I'm taking Dwight Yoakam's last album 3 Pears too.
Craig
Craig
Oh well, maybe I'll order it direct from Mexican Summer instead...
Let us know if it works, thom!
Craig