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Complete Studio Recordings [Box set] [Import]
Complete Studio Recordings [Box set] [Import]
ASIN: B00005B1SS
Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
| 1. When the Lights Are Low - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra |
| 2. One Sweet Letter from You - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra |
| 3. Hot Mallets - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra |
| 4. Early Session Hop - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra |
| 5. Flying Home - Goodman Group |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Honeysuckle Rose - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra |
| 2. Shivers - Goodman Group |
| 3. AC-DC Current - Goodman Group |
| 4. I'm Confessin' - Goodman Group |
| 5. King Porter Stomp - The Metronome All-Stars |
| Disc: 3 |
| 1. Wholly Cats - Count Basie, Benny Goodman Sextet |
| 2. Royal Garden Blues - Count Basie, Benny Goodman Sextet |
| 3. As Long as I Live - Count Basie, Benny Goodman Sextet |
| 4. Benny's Bugle - Count Basie, Benny Goodman Sextet |
| 5. Breakfast Feud - Benny Goodman Sextet |
| Disc: 4 |
| 1. Homeward Bound (Flying Home) - Goodman Group |
| 2. Breakfast Feud - Count Basie, Benny Goodman Sextet |
| 3. Ad-Lib Blue - Goodman Group |
| 4. I Never Knew - Goodman Group |
| 5. Dickie's Dream (Charlie's Dream) - Goodman Group |
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Great first time tribute to the genius of electric guitar with all his session dates. Only master takes. 4 CD set
Complete Studio Recordings,Charlie Christian,Definitive Classics,Bop,Jazz,Swing
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Louis Armstrong Complete Decca Studio Recordings Mosaic 6 CD Box Set
Louis Armstrong Manufacturer: Mosaic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Traditional Jazz General
| Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Classic Vocalists
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
Traditional Vocal Pop
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
General
| Vocal Pop
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000KZH32I |
Product Description
Rare out of print stunning 6CD box set. Beautiful 24 page booklet of photos and recording sessions. 81 songs total!
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Complete Studio Recordings
Charlie Christian Manufacturer: Definitive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Box Sets
| Stores
| Music
Jazz
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00005NZYW Release Date: 2001-08-21 |
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christian, born again.......2002-09-07
and for the record, this set IS in chronological order (by date recorded), while he vaguely insinuates that it isn't. discs 1-3 contain the master takes (what was released) for each tune and are in chron order. disc 4 contains studio outtakes and jams. instead of inserting them where they should go on #s1-3, they put them all on disc 4 and put them in order. fine, overall, yes 1-4 are not in order. but 1-3 are in order and 4 is in order on it's own, so it's not like they just mashed everything together with no rhyme or reason.
overall, the sound quality is great, but while the liner notes are wonderful with the session dates & personel, they completely fall short on any solid information (either biographical or critical) on charlie christian. two paragraphs of generic copy and that's all you get, which is a shame considering the breadth of this collection.
so, if you've heard the classic goodman tunes and also the minton's/monroe's stuff and still hunger for more charlie christian, you can choose to either a)wait for the columbia box set which has between 4-11 takes of almost every song, but is mostly just the benny goodman stuff, b)get the box set of live/broadcast stuff (which looks pretty nice itself, hell it's affordable enough) or c)get this one and have the variety of all his studio recordings (not just the goodman ones), without getting overly bogged down by alternate takes.
Great for those who love Christian or jazz from the 30.......2002-07-02
Definitive Records has offered a number of such sets in the last couple of years, including a delightful Lee Wiley compilation and six discs covering Louis Armstrong's early years on Decca. These collections take advantage of lapsed copyrights to offer chronological looks at an artist's work, in contrast to official releases, which are usually limited to the label or labels owned by a given corporation. This label-blind approach helps the consumer, since otherwise one has to follow a musician's career in starts and fits depending on which label keeps material in circulation, and it hardly harms artists who have been dead for decades and saw little income from their recordings in any case. Unfortunately, sometimes the quality of the sound suffers, since independent labels rarely have access to original masters. Definitive's record is mixed (scratched?) in this regard. Blessedly, they do not smother their recordings in noise reduction and thus provide lively and detailed sound. The Armstrong discs present his trumpet as vividly as any I've heard: it's a cliché, but that horn really does send chills down your spine. On the other hand, Definitive can be remarkably careless about tracking down clean sources to master from. Their Ellington "Blanton /Webster" set seems to have been taken from 78s used as frisbees, and the Lenny Tristano single disc has similar problems. In the case of the Christian Studio Recordings, the sound is well above the Definitive average. Either these 78s are common or a staffer tracked down a relatively pristine collection. The packaging is fairly minimal, with only a couple of semi-translated paragraphs on the guitarist's career, but personnel is listed for each session and the visual design competes with the majors.
Listeners turning to the set solely in order to hear Christian will be disappointed. None of the included sessions was recorded with the guitarist as leader; he does not solo on every number and often plays only half a chorus when he gets the spotlight. As long as you enjoy the music of this period, however, you'll love this set. Christian kept excellent company. Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Henry "Red" Allen, Cootie Williams and other heavy-hitters from the `30s make sterling appearances. There are very few weak tracks, rare enough in a box set, and any one of the four discs can be listened to from start to finish with pleasure.
On the basis of this material, Christian's greatest contribution to jazz was showing how the electric guitar could be a viable solo instrument. He sounds strikingly different from major predecessors like Django Reinhardt (whose affair with electricity was star-crossed) Eddie Lang or Lonnie Johnson (though Johnson is his closest acoustic cousin) and it's clear how his linear approach could easily be adopted to bop, although harmonically Christian seems firmly swing. He plays unpretentiously, with a countrified edge to his sound that wouldn't be out of place on an early Elvis single. His solos don't feature jaw-dropping technique, and his ideas, frankly, sometimes seem mundane. Of course, Christian had dozens of imitators to ossify his fresh ideas into cliché, so you can hardly blame him for the impression he makes on early twenty-first century listeners. His playing never strains and never fails to propel the listener happily from bar to bar. The recordings he made from 1939 to 1941 offer gems from a period when uncomplicated joy was the reigning aesthetic and small groups the best place to get "real jazz."
Not exactly complete.......2002-01-19
But I can tell you this is far from "complete." There are alternate takes of many of these performances, on which Christian plays completely different solos. This release includes the so-called master takes (granted, Columbia's many releases of this material have often confused the issue of which performances are indeed the preferred "masters").
It appears that the fourth disk consists of a few alternates ("Profoundly Blue no. 2") and the famous 1940 rehearsal session with Lester Young that was not intended for release. I personally would prefer a strict chronological organization, but many listeners may prefer this sequence.
There's no disputing the greatness of many of these performances. There's a lot of bang for the buck here (repeating the caveat that I can't attest to sound quality), so if you're not a completist -- and to be a completist you need to have a turntable and track down a lot of rare LPs -- this is a good bet.
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