Amazon Deutschland have a 17 disc boxset Chet Baker – Milestones of a Jazz legend for a tad under £ 15.00 for anyone interested.
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Sorry, 17 albums on 10 cd’s.
£11.03 in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Milestones-Jazz-Legend-Original-Albums/dp/B00YQIFY9O/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=chet+baker&qid=1590767634&refinements=p_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A382534011&rnid=340358031&s=music&sr=1-1
if it had an autorip, I’d get it.
Buyer beware! It’s yet another out-of-copyright set, sold cheap as there’s no royalties to pay on the performances. Recordings could be sourced from anywhere.
I acquired another set from this label a few years back. Some of the recordings sound great, others are dreadful. One album is dubbed from a very scratchy record with a huge scratch audible through several tracks. Another sounds even worse – there’s a lot of scratches and wooshing as if it were a sourced from a low bitrate MP3.
Which box set did you have issues with @JQW? Would like to know in case it’s one I’m considering getting.
I have 7 box sets issued by this company (but not this one) and have no complaints about sound quality regarding any of them. Very good VFM and IMO they compare favourably with many other purveyors of out-of-copyright box-sets regarding presentation.
Basic card sleeves in sturdy clamshell boxes, they are lacking the proper cover art, because if they are short albums (a lot from this era were originally 10″ LPs) they tend to put 2 albums on a single disc. Track listings, labels and release dates, participating players etc. printed on the backs of each sleeve.
For my requirements, i.e. digitising them to play through the hi-fi from my computer, they are ideal. Cover art can be obtained either as you digitise or later from Discogs.org.
If you want to hold the cover art in your hand while playing the music, these sets are not for you.
Out-of-copyright sets are the only realistic affordable option for getting hold of some of this old jazz stuff, it seems to me. Unless you have the money, patience and free time to scour record fairs and websites you just won’t get the majority of it.
This was their Duke Ellington set.
There was a massive free download of Duke Ellington stuff on Archive.org a year or so ago. 493 mp3 tracks from the earliest 78rpm discs up to the mid-’60s. Some of the really old (1920s) stuff was rather ropey sound but I suspect good transfers of his oldest 78s are pretty rare.
Now I don’t need the construction space for three rizlas and the trimmings, the sleeves of the music I listen to is often redundant. It’s only very occasionally that I look at a CD sleeve or booklet.
Thanks for the heads up. Another parcel I have to get to before the wife sees it on the doormat!
The reviews on Amazon.de say that the sound quality on this particular set is good. I have ordered so will let you know if not
I have a Billie Holiday one from the same series/label and the sound is fine (to my ears, which admittedly have tinnitus!)
The two Blue Note boxes from Intense Media, “Blue Notes” and “More Blue Notes” are good introductions to some of the slightly lesser-known albums from the label’s heyday.
“Blue Notes” is currently only £10 on UK Amazon. 21 albums (even if some are short little 10″ albums) is a steal. “More Blue Notes” is £17.72 at the moment with 17 albums on the 10 CDs. Still good value.