Ba-Boom, BT - that's the bomb. Thanks. Storyville gave us The Duke Box and those Art Tatum titles from the 7digital thread too.
Edit - Ixnay on this one for me - Eddie Boyd - Live In Switzerland - I like Eddie Boyd but not a whole gig of just him solo.
Oh, BigD, the Armstrong Box is sweet. A little more than 1 disc is more like decent bootleg quality. Otherwise, nice radio sessions. Of course, it's Louis, so a lot of the material repeats itself, especially when the program was short. Nonetheless, I am not just completely satisfied, I'm smiling from ear to ear.
Let's start again with Solar. Here are the $5.84 deals (at least 120 minutes of music):
Denver, I wish I could get better info of the personnel/under what band type on that Sonny Criss set, but after listening to some of the longer samples 7dig is nice enough to provide I liked enough to pull the trigger at eMu. The credits on it at Amazon I suppose reflect the bandleaders.
Happy to say the credits print out slightly wider once downloaded, still not adequate but better.
Poking around from BT's list I found this from one of my favorites, "Total Tracks: 136 Total Length: 568:50" for $45.60. Not amazingly cheap, but not bad.
I'd never heard of the Boswell Sisters, and I laughed when I saw their picture, but you know, they sounded pretty good. Here's the sample from emu of Everybody Loves My Baby. AMG: "Definitely the most talented and arguably the all-around best jazz vocal group of all time, the Boswell Sisters parlayed their New Orleans upbringing into a swinging delivery that featured not only impossibly close harmonies, but countless maneuvers of vocal gymnastics rarely equalled on record." They even worked with Bunny Berrigan! Two sites about them are http://www.bozzies.org/ and http://guymcafee.com/. The similarity to the Andrews Sisters was obvious, but to me they also sounded, except for three voices not two, very much like a jazz version of Kate & Anna McGarrigle. There's a decent selection of material by them on the Internet Archive.
edit: I guess links to eMusic samples don't work that way. You'll have to go get it yourselves if you want to hear it.
BTW eMu's got an older version of that Clash set at $19, so.......
Anyhow, what a beat! I've been ripped off! I paid $5.99 at 7digital for this 100 track 11 hour Denon classical sampler - 100 Most Essential Classical Favorites that eMu has for $3.89! Oh, the agony. Who'd a thunk?
Sonofabitch, that Cachao album is exactly the same as the one I paid $11.98 for on eMu - exactly the same label, just in UPPER CASE instead of Normal Case, and still listed - WTF. Great, great stuff - snap that puppy up! Now! It's a classic, and I'll have to investigate those other offerings to see if they're lower priced, here at Yemaya Records, not here at YEMAYA-MVD where the $11.84 version is the only album - Swiiiinnnddddllle!
I'm sorry - did I make it clear in all that raving that this would be a cornerstone of any collection of Cuban Music?
Yes, Sir. It is on my To Do List. I've amassed a fair collection that I'll have to review, but I think there are some comps that would be a good start for anyone, and Cachao is a must - this one above is a good sample of more vintage material from him. Try to get it done reasonably soon.
Fyi (to those who care) better credits/personnel on the Cachao set can be found here. Not coincidentally, this site is also where I found complete personnel info for the "Newport in New York" set.
Thanks for that find, BT - the fact that Jim Hall is on the record is a hook for me.
Doofy, thanks for the link on the Cachao personnel. I can rest easier even having paid double for the release because I was not sure these were the treasured sessions they are when I got it, although they sounded great. That's a choice lineup of musicians, and that's really a Grail quality acquisition for Cuban music.
Also I was following up on whether I had the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker release mentioned on the top of the previous page (yes) and see there are two others (eMu) - will puzzle over whether there's overlap but this one at $4.40 looks good too - The Original Sessions 1952-1953. There's also this Modern Jazz Quartet release on that label, $4.40 and album cover mentions Ben Webster as well, and BTW, has anyone ever heard the song on track 1 - All The hings You Are? That's a new one on me.
This collection intrigues me - V-Disc Jazz Essentials - was it some kind of WWII thing? Putting on the SFL for now - it is cheaper at $8.99 over at 7dig. Edit - Was a series of records especially distributed for the armed services personnel, some from Armed Forces Radio broadcasts. Here's the AMG page - some of the series had what are rare recordings in that they were during the war years.
BT, I've not paid attention to these because they weren't extraordinary deals, and the V.A. comps didn't seem to be top shelf songs. Eyeballing a few they don't look like bad deals but it all depends what you already have - between the tapes, CDs, and all the big MP3 comps I've collected I didn't pursue them. The B.B. King/Bobby Blue Bland one for instance it's mostly early career B.B. - by the sharper tone if nothing else, and the songs, but then Why I Sing The Blues sounds mid-career live to me, and there's not a lot of Bobby Blue Bland but some is live which always gets me suspicious on blues comps. It doesn't move me but if it filled a hole in the collection it wouldn't be bad, especially with the old timers who had a more limited catalog.
Thanks, BigD. I started to suspect that it might not be worth it. I ended up finding some good copies of the same Hurt songs at archive.org with comparable quality. I also dl'd one of the Library of Congress discs.
A question. This thread is invaluable. Posting my Feb downloads I got to thinking as follows. One of the albums I found in Feb was Saito Koji - Mizuumi, which is $2.97 @ Amazon. I occasionally am finding these - albums that are not mispriced or box sets or 99-most-essentials - they are just very cheap and quite good. They are filling a specific gap that emusic has partially abandoned - albums I would not have sought out at regular price but was ready to take a chance on for very cheap. I think these are worth posting. Is this the best place? Should there be another thread for this? If folk think there should I'll move this, but for now:
Saito Koji - Mizuumi - $2.97 - Japanese electronic ambient with environmental recordings of water. Quite nice really.
Albums mentioned here in the past worth listening to that fall under this category would include:
Redshift - Ether - $3.56 (but you can get 50 minutes of the album for $1.78) - great analog synth sequence stuff. Really like this one.
Hey, GP, get your drift but hey it does say Inside Tips first so it seems appropriate here. I just tend to put Amazon finds in the Amazon MP3 thread, 7dig in 7dig, and eMu in Freshly Dropped etc. but this thread is just as good I figure.
Edit - And here's an odd one posted on the eMu board - Jazz On Film Noir Vol.1-5, 5 disc set, $5.84, but what's the provenance? It's on Amazon for cheap as well, $8.99, for what info is there but it's too late to process this right now - cool or kitsch?
It looks like that is a repackaging of the albums "Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins", "In Action, Live at the Five Spot" and "plays Duke Ellington". If the sound quality's good, then it's probably a good deal; I'm tempted.
Thanks for that GP and amclark. After following the link, I then looked at Amazon UK to see if it was there. I actually found a 40 track Thelonious Monk compilation. The first 21 tracks are exactly the same, but there are then another 19 tracks as well. All for £3.19 - must be under $5. Now playing it!
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Edit - Ixnay on this one for me - Eddie Boyd - Live In Switzerland - I like Eddie Boyd but not a whole gig of just him solo.
Let's start again with Solar. Here are the $5.84 deals (at least 120 minutes of music):
The Complete Legenday Jam Sessions by Bucky Clarton
The Complete Cookbook Sessions by Eddie Lockjaw Davis
Complete Recordigns by Coleman Hawkins and Ray Bryant
Complete Live at the Olympia 1958 by Donald Byrd
The Complete Benny in Brussels featuring Jimmy Rushing by Benny Goodmanp
Complete Studio Recordings by Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor
Oscar Peterson plays the Warren and Youmans Songbooks
Complete Live at the Americana Hotel by Count Basie
The Complete Felsted Mainstream Collection
The Complete Bethlehem Recordings by Ruby Braff
Live in Europe 1959 by Sonny Rollins
Jazz at the Philharmonic
The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions
Complete Recordings with Art Farmer by Horace Silver
The Legendary 1958 Pershing Lounge Spotlite Club Performances by Ahmad Jamal
The Complete 1960 Nat Hentoff Sessions by Charles Mingus
Happy to say the credits print out slightly wider once downloaded, still not adequate but better.
edit: I guess links to eMusic samples don't work that way. You'll have to go get it yourselves if you want to hear it.
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/the-clash/clash-on-broadway/13131564/:
Anyhow, what a beat! I've been ripped off! I paid $5.99 at 7digital for this 100 track 11 hour Denon classical sampler - 100 Most Essential Classical Favorites that eMu has for $3.89! Oh, the agony. Who'd a thunk?
I'm sorry - did I make it clear in all that raving that this would be a cornerstone of any collection of Cuban Music?
Maelo - A Man And His Music by Ismael Rivera $4.40
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/ismael-rivera/maelo-a-man-and-his-music/12868920/
A Band and Its Music by Sonora Ponce
Doofy, thanks for the link on the Cachao personnel. I can rest easier even having paid double for the release because I was not sure these were the treasured sessions they are when I got it, although they sounded great. That's a choice lineup of musicians, and that's really a Grail quality acquisition for Cuban music.
Also I was following up on whether I had the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker release mentioned on the top of the previous page (yes) and see there are two others (eMu) - will puzzle over whether there's overlap but this one at $4.40 looks good too - The Original Sessions 1952-1953. There's also this Modern Jazz Quartet release on that label, $4.40 and album cover mentions Ben Webster as well, and BTW, has anyone ever heard the song on track 1 - All The hings You Are? That's a new one on me.
This collection intrigues me - V-Disc Jazz Essentials - was it some kind of WWII thing? Putting on the SFL for now - it is cheaper at $8.99 over at 7dig. Edit - Was a series of records especially distributed for the armed services personnel, some from Armed Forces Radio broadcasts. Here's the AMG page - some of the series had what are rare recordings in that they were during the war years.
Saito Koji - Mizuumi - $2.97 - Japanese electronic ambient with environmental recordings of water. Quite nice really.
Albums mentioned here in the past worth listening to that fall under this category would include:
Redshift - Ether - $3.56 (but you can get 50 minutes of the album for $1.78) - great analog synth sequence stuff. Really like this one.
Greg Haines - Until the Point of Hushed Support - $3.96 - lovely classical/ambient rec'd by Brighternow. (Slumber Tides is cheap too)
edit: On Amazon the download is $25 and the physical box is $118.63.
Edit - And here's an odd one posted on the eMu board - Jazz On Film Noir Vol.1-5, 5 disc set, $5.84, but what's the provenance? It's on Amazon for cheap as well, $8.99, for what info is there but it's too late to process this right now - cool or kitsch?
People who know about jazz - is this something I should be considering? It has no reviews.