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Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions
Limited Edition 7 CD Box Set - $119



7 CD box set includes Berry's work with Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Wingy Manone, Fletcher Henderson, Teddy Hill, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson & Mildred Bailey and his sides as a leader. Sound restoration is by Ted Kendall, who worked closely with the late John RT Davies.

Does it have a standardized serial number? I'm trying to find out if any libraries are carrying it. I believe for CD sets the serial number I'm looking for is an ASIN, but I'm not sure of that.

There are still a few more weeks before it it released.

Oh man, that's a must have! Gotta go spend some money again...

/Jonas

Thanks Trev. This seems a good time to try these fabled Mosaic sets.

I just recieved this set in the mail and I am in love with Chu! I'm into the second disc so far and it's SO good.

trev wrote:I just recieved this set in the mail and I am in love with Chu! I'm into the second disc so far and it's SO good.

Arghh... My set was delivered to my friend's house in Boulder CO a week ago but I won't go there until June.

anton wrote:Arghh... My set was delivered to my friend's house in Boulder CO a week ago but I won't go there until June.

i'm going to be in Denver for their exchange mid-May and at my Mom's house in Longmont which is close Boulder. Can I go borrow it?

My set arrived today. Looking forward to exploring it.
Any favourites so far Trev?

russell wrote:Any favourites so far Trev?

Um.. all of it?

Does it have a standardized serial number? I'm trying to find out if any libraries are carrying it. I believe for CD sets the serial number I'm looking for is an ASIN, but I'm not sure of that.

There is nothing listed as an AISN, but the set has some serial numbers on each disc:

MD7-236
A 706534 to A 70657 (different number per case)

and the discs are labelled as:
A 689040-A to A 689040-G

I Hope that helps.

I've finally retrieved my box from the US and am currently going through the first couple of discs. It's nice but not super - I had many of the tracks before and the sound is not a great improvement. (I might even like the Classics sound better for some of the Fletcher Henderson tracks.)

Anyway, joining two threads here, when I came to track 25 on disc 1 - "Swing Is Here" by Gene Krupa's Swing Band (available on many other collections as well) - I thought I recognized the riff starting at 2:20. It's actually quite similar to the riff heard in the Keep On Punchin clip. A few of the previous sections also bear some resemblance. I'm not saying that the band in Keep On Punchin' was playing "Swing Is Here" (they were probably just riffing) but perhaps they were influenced by this track?

anton wrote:It's nice but not super - I had many of the tracks before and the sound is not a great improvement.

After some further listening, I have to correct myself here - many of the tracks sound much better...

anton wrote:Anyway, joining two threads here, when I came to track 25 on disc 1 - "Swing Is Here" by Gene Krupa's Swing Band (available on many other collections as well) - I thought I recognized the riff starting at 2:20. It's actually quite similar to the riff heard in the Keep On Punchin clip. A few of the previous sections also bear some resemblance. I'm not saying that the band in Keep On Punchin' was playing "Swing Is Here" (they were probably just riffing) but perhaps they were influenced by this track?

Listen to "Light Up" with Buster Bailey from 1932, that's another one very close one (predating both Swing Is Here from 1936 and the Keep Punchin' clip). But as you're saying, it's probably just riffin' in general...

/Jonas