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Topic: Hot Fives and Sevens |
Robert
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Chicago
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Posted 23 Oct 2000 4:56 pm |
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Dear Music Lovers -
Just a word about the new boxed set of Louis Armstrong's Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens: If you're set on buying this package, ask your retailer to open the package at the register. If your discs are clean (free of rubber cement), then take it home and enjoy. If not, try another set.
Customer reviews on amazon.com set me wise to this problem . . . evidently rushed out to coincide with Armstrong's centennial, the packaging of this music suffered a sloppy fate. So bad, in fact, that I couldn't piece together a clean four discs after the clerk and I had opened FOUR boxes. So he just set them on the small stack of others that had been returned that week and I left frustrated. However, I did find the same music (nicely re-mastered and even in the almost identical playing order) on the sometimes cheesy JSP-UK label, and for half the price. No fancy packaging or book, but each disc got it's own jewel case and was not asked to perch in a paper sleeve while taking a glue bath! Put that in your pipe and smoke it . . . and remember, there's a porkchop in every beer.
Rob
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2000 7:54 pm
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I just picked them up separately a couple of weeks ago! I didn't know that a boxed set was available. I had been hearing a lot of the tracks on the radio lately, and decided they should be in my collection.
Another good one is the set of the complete Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald recordings. Very nice indeed!
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Al Johnson
From:
Sturgeon Bay, WI USA
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Posted 24 Oct 2000 12:17 am
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You are right about Louis and Ella set, two
unblendable voices blend right together, some
of my favorite songs also. I've listened to
many Louis records and his excitment and
calling out of the players names just have to
remind you of Bob Wills. He didn't sound like
Frank or Ray Price, but, his ballad singing
could be real and beautiful. Like Duke said
if it sound good, it is good. I'm going to
have get some new steel CDs. The Forum is
offering some great music. Al |
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