This year’s array of new CD box sets includes such massive offerings as Bob Dylan and The Band’s “The 1974 Live Recordings,” which features 417 previously unreleased recordi…
This year’s CD and vinyl box sets cover a broad array of musical styles. When it comes to CD and vinyl box sets, when is too much simply too much? In a word, never.BottleRock Napa: Here’s how to be the first one on the block to get tickets
By comparison, the recent sets by two former members of Roxy Music — guitarist Phil Manzanera’s 11-CD “50 Years of Music” and singer‘s 5-CD, two-vinyl album “Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023” — seem almost lightweight. That is, until you factor in the fact that the Ferry and Manzanera sets each include a hefty, 100-page hardbound book.
Those with even more money to spare can purchase a used copy of the massive 2016 Decca Records set, “Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition 2,” a 200-CD opus that has a current asking price of $2,384.04 on Amazon. The 25-pound set cost a bit over $300 when it came out seven years ago and all 5,556 copies were quickly purchased.put out a 150-song, 38-pound box set that cost $2,000.
A master of nuance and space, Davis has rarely sounded better on trumpet, while Williams’ explosive drumming lights one fire after another. Hancock begins to come into his own on these recordings, while Shorter is nothing short of revelatory, as his alternately mind-bending and rhapsodic solos on “So What” and “Stella by Starlight” vividly attest.
Having kicked his heroin habit and taken up boxing, he approached his music anew with fresh vigor and focus, in the process establishing himself as a formidable force who would soon become one of the most influential and dominant artists in or out of jazz. It was also the year that saw Davis perform at the inaugural edition of the Newport Jazz Festival/ where his set included “Walkin’,” an early hard-bop classic that would become the title track of his 1957 Prestige album of the same name.
The documentary chronicles the birth and legacy of New York City’s famed Electric Lady Studios. It was built to Hendrix’s exacting specifications as a home base for him to record in, 24/7, whenever he wanted. It is also where such varied artists as Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin and Carly Simon recorded not long after the studio’s grand opening in late August 1970, barely three weeks before he died.
John Lennon’s “Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection” box set. At first glance, this handsomely packaged collection appears to live up to its “ultimate” billing. Weighing in at 3.2 pounds, it contains six CDs, two Blu-Ray discs and a 136-page book that offers detailed recording information, quotes from Lennon , his wife, Yoko Ono, various musicians featured on this 1973 album, and more.
Lennon and Ono began an 18-month separation not long after “Mind Games” was made. Hearing recording studio banter between the couple lends some appeal to “The Evolution Documentary,” to which a CD and a Blu-Ray disc on this set are devoted. This is also, so far as I can recall, the only Lennon album to feature a pedal-steel guitarist .
This 83-song collection is a veritable treasure trove for Mitchell devotees. It features 29 studio recordings and 54 live cuts, including a disc devoted entirely to her 1975 and 1976 performances on the Bob Dylan-led Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Sun Ra’s “At The Showcase: Live in Chicago, 1976-1977” box set. During a career that spanned 60 years, Sun Ra created a unique musical legacy that combined big band music, cutting-edge jazz and Afro-futurism with consistently arresting results. In the process, he greatly influenced a broad array of artists that ranged from Elvis Costello and Henry Rollins to Sonic Youth, the George Clinton-led Parliament-Funkadelic and Little Feat’s Lowell George.
Recorded in between his highly acclaimed mid-1970s tours of Europe, this dozen-song collection finds Ra and his Arkestra firing on all cylinders. Their performance is characteristically edgy and wildly daring, while retaining a propulsive sense of swing that nods to Ra’s early big-band days. Taken from a pair of live radio broadcasts recorded at the 4 Queens Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, this two-CD, 17-song set — the first release of Remler’s music in more than 30 years — is a welcome addition to her discography. Performing in a quartet setting on the first disc and with a trio on the second, Remler’s winning combination of fluidity and finesse is nicely showcased throughout.
But that’s just the start. Two discs apiece are devoted to a pair of 1974 concerts recorded six months apart in Colorado and Ohio. The lineup of musicians changed during that half-year period. But the musical excellence of Duke, vibraphonist and marimba phenom Ruth Underwood, drummer Chester Thompson and the other players is uniformly excellent throughout.
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