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The greatest jazz recordings of all time - komplett sett, 100 plater
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Ettertraktet og godt kuratert samling fra Franklin Mint, utgitt på 80-tallet.
Sjelden å finne komplett og i så bra stand som denne. Hefter med info om musikerne og kvalitetspressinger på rød vinyl.
Kan hentes i Oslo eller på Sem.
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A few months ago at an estate sale, I found a collection of Franklin Mint albums entitled: "The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time." There were 25 handsome box sets, with gold lettering on the covers and leather bindings. Each box contained four LPs, pressed on 160-gram, dark red vinyl, for a total of 100 albums. Many of the sets covered a stylistic theme or time period, such as "Great Jazz Inventors -- Davis, Mingus, Monk" or "Cool Jazz-Third Stream -- Baker, Getz, Brubeck, Mulligan, Konitz, MJQ." The red vinyl was stunning, and every disk I examined looked absolutely mint. They were priced at $12 per set, so I decided to grab five and see if they were any good. I thought I could come back the next day and get the rest if they turned out to be interesting.
Once I got them home and started to do a little research on the Interwebs, I discovered that these sets are quite collectible and much appreciated by jazz fans -- not only for the quality of the pressings, but for the extremely well-done selection of tracks and artists. The collection was curated over a period of several years (1983-85) by the noted jazz critic and music scholar Dan Morgenstern. At the time, Morgenstern was the director of Rutgers University at Newark's Institute of Jazz Studies, one of the world's greatest collections of jazz recordings, memorabilia, and other cool jazz-related stuff.
Morgenstern raided the Institute's collection for rare 78s and other obscure recordings that in some cases have been out of print for decades, Of course, he also includes selections from dozens of seminal albums by jazz greats from Louis Armstrong to Pat Metheny. In all, there are some 1,200 tracks on the 100 albums.
In general, I'm not a fan of collections of any kind of music. As a rule I never buy greatest hits collections by rock or jazz artists. If I like an artist, then I want to have the individual albums so I can appreciate the work as a whole and in context. But in the case of some jazz pioneers or obscure artists from the 40s and 50s, it's not practical or even possible to track down their recordings. So these Franklin Mint sets are a great find. And even though I have many of the individual tracks on the original albums, Morgenstern does a great job of selecting cuts that highlight the development of a particular instrument or style of jazz. In the case of one of the sets I bought (Volume 16) "Cool Jazz - Third Stream," it's fascinating to hear tracks by artists I've never heard of (Cy Touff, Andre Hodeir, Lennie Niehaus - anyone? anyone?) alongside cuts by Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, and others who came to define the Cool Jazz genre.
Each box set comes with a 20-page glossy booklet by Morgenstern or another noted jazz writer, providing historical context and giving a track-by-track discussion of the music. After spinning a few of the albums, I rushed back over to the estate sale to pick up the rest of the boxes. Naturally they were gone. But I've been able to pick up more online, and now have 20 out of the 25 boxes.
If you ever stumble across any of these sets in good condition at a thrift store or used record sale, don't hesitate to buy them. Complete sets in mint condition go for around $300-400, and individual boxes are usually around $25 on Ebay. The dark red disks look stunning, and the pressings on 160-gram virgin vinyl are stellar - dead flat and quiet.
Enjoy the music!
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