Jazz Purchases

[SimonNZ]

Purchased today: the 8-cd Morton and the 6-cd Tatum sets.

Had been considering these for a while, but now the secondhand store dropped their prices to the price of a single new cd each.

The Morton box also unexpectedly includes Alan Lomax's book "Mr Jelly Roll".

[SimonNZ]

Surprised to find a copy of the complete 8-cd Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur at the secondhand store yesterday.

Luckily I was already familiar with its bizarre non-marketing "ignore me" packaging or I too would have passed it by.

The packaging must have confused the store as well, because it was way way cheaper than it should have been.

[San Antone]

Surprised to find a copy of the complete 8-cd Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur at the secondhand store yesterday.

Fantastic set, and very interesting for an Ellington record since it contains arrangements of modern pop songs, e.g. Wives & Lovers, Going Out of My Head, and Jazz Samba.

[Brian]

I'll be visiting Louisiana Music Factory in person next Sunday. Already excited about what purchases I might make.

[p30better]

I have had the second set on cd for some time and enjoyed it enough to grab this first set.  Sound is decent, but as for Ellington in '48, one cannot be too choosy.

[SimonNZ]

1. Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard [2 CDs] (1976)
2. Sophisticated Giant (1977)
3. Manhattan Symphonie (1978)
4. Live At Carnegie Hall (1978)
5. Gotham City (1980)
6. Bonus Tracks (a new compilation disc of bonus material)