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only one of them (i think pharoah sanders) is AAA,

the others are ADA because they original tapes were quadrophonic.. but because they used the original tapes they could say from the analog tapes
 
Has the actual song Space Is The Place (side A) always sounded a little crappy? Just spinning my copy right now and the bass really isn’t there and the music sounds distant. Side B sounds fantastic. I do know that it was released in Quad but maybe the fold down to two channel stereo loses some bass? This is the 2015 reissue. I’ve never heard any other pressings.
 
MikeH said:
very excited for the spiritual jazz drop. more excited about that than the anthology to be honest...
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Same. The already announced anthology titles didn’t do much for me, but the Shepp and Michael White are right in my wheelhouse, and the Sun Ra and Pharoah are solid enough for me to jump on the whole bundle for the discount.
 
Yeah, the Impulse and Blue Note anthologies to me are outliers in the VMP Anthology series because they are basically leftover stuff they were able to reissue, not the best, most important or definitive albums from the label or artist — which is what all the other anthologies tend to be.
 
keylime_5 said:
Yeah, the Impulse and Blue Note anthologies to me are outliers in the VMP Anthology series because they are basically leftover stuff they were able to reissue, not the best, most important or definitive albums from the label or artist — which is what all the other anthologies tend to be.
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yet weirdly the BN one is one of my favorite anthologies.

i'd argue also that Herbie is not the most definitive albums from the artist/label. but its what herbie wanted.
 
I mean there are some in the Herbie box that weren't totally ideal, but the box is basically Herbie's career as told through albums just like the Willie box, not necessarily their 7 best albums, but it has 3 of his biggest albums at least. If they did the same thing with Impulse or BN anthologies then you would've seen 3 or 4 albums as essential as A Love Supreme, the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, etc for Impulse and 3 or 4 albums along the lines of The Sidewinder, Somethin Else, Moanin, Blue Train, out to Lunch, Song for My Father, etc instead of a collection of B and C tier titles.
 
keylime_5 said:
I mean there are some in the Herbie box that weren't totally ideal, but the box is basically Herbie's career as told through albums just like the Willie box, not necessarily their 7 best albums, but it has 3 of his biggest albums at least. If they did the same thing with Impulse or BN anthologies then you would've seen 3 or 4 albums as essential as A Love Supreme, the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, etc for Impulse and 3 or 4 albums along the lines of The Sidewinder, Somethin Else, Moaning, Blue Train, out to Lunch, Song for My Father, etc instead of a collection of B and C tier titles.
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I happen to think most of the Herbie stuff falls into that B and C tier titles too haha. It all falls down to licensing and what titles haven't been reissued to death in most cases. Quincy Jones too. Most of the Anthologies seem to try to release at least 1 album in it thats really hard to find, then some lesser known or appreciated titles and some of the B/C tier stuff. I don't think any are only definitive albums from an artist's entire career or a labels whole output.
 
Well it had Maiden Voyage, Head Hunters, Takin' Off which would go into any Herbie essential anthology really, plus Future Shock which is one of the best selling "jazz' albums of all time. They decided to go with a couple modern titles too to make it more of a lifetime spanning box set, the only titles that I think they could've done differently are putting some more WB stuff in there instead of VSOP, 1+1 and the Piano. But even still, if Impulse or BN did one just like the Herbie box we still would've seen more essential titles in there. The biggest title in the BN box are some B tier Dexter Gordon, Wayne Shorter, and Lou Donaldson. Stuff that we get in the Tone Poet series every month. I get whey they did it, but just saying those 2 jazz anthologies are really outliers in comparison to every single other anthology in terms of curation. The BN set is really good, but it's like having a tone poet mix and match rather than like what they did with Cadet, Philly Int'l, etc.
 
keylime_5 said:
I mean there are some in the Herbie box that weren't totally ideal, but the box is basically Herbie's career as told through albums just like the Willie box, not necessarily their 7 best albums, but it has 3 of his biggest albums at least. If they did the same thing with Impulse or BN anthologies then you would've seen 3 or 4 albums as essential as A Love Supreme, the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, etc for Impulse and 3 or 4 albums along the lines of The Sidewinder, Somethin Else, Moanin, Blue Train, out to Lunch, Song for My Father, etc instead of a collection of B and C tier titles.
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I agree that the Blue Note box were not the big name titles, it's still one of my favourite VMP purchases and I still play most of them fairly often in part because they're not as familiar. Also, to say it is a Tone Poet mix and match is a little revisionist, as Tone Poet hadn't flooded the market on BN vinyl at that point.

And while I agree that ALS and BS&SL are the top 2 Impulse albums, of the 4 announced, I'd say Africa/Brass, Karma, and Ptah are top 10(ish) in the Impulse! catalogue. While I assume the other 4 albums will be lesser known titles, we'd all be complaining if they just put out 8 titles that are super easy to find and/or Acoustic Sounds was also doing. And they've done quite a few other Impulse titles in Classics (Attica Blues, Journeys in Satchidanada, Percussion Bitter Sweet, Serve Me Right to Suffer, Sun Ship, et al.), so there are only so many to pick from.
 
Yeah I'm not complaining about the titles in those boxes, the only gripe I have with the Impulse box really is that it's not all AAA and there are other non-AAA reissues of some of those albums on the market right now. I think it would've been disappointing to put ALS and BS&SL in those boxes, just an interesting observation how the other anthologies go for big main titles, plus some in-need-of-reissue titles while the BN and Impulse catalogs (which are already being pretty heavily reissues by the labels themselves AAA currently) really reach for some deeper cut albums that need reissued (or needed them at the time of curation). Stark difference in curation between those 2 boxsets and every other one
 
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