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Recommend Well-Recorded Hard Bop Jazz on CD?

Can you recommend some well recorded Hard Bop Jazz CD's? (Remasters) I have some of the JVC 20bit K2's, as many as I could find. Many have been sold out for years. Have some JVC k2 Cd's of Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Coltrane, Miles, Bill Evans etc. Not many out there left to be had. The Columbia jazz recordings (Miles etc) are for the most part excellent recordings. Example: "Miles Davis Qunitet. 1965-68-- if you listen to CD's and don't have this box set, you are missing out on an excellently recorded cd set of great music. Another: the "Miles Davis and John Coltrane, The Complete Columbia Recordings" is another set of excellent music and excellent recordings. Individually too, many of the Columbia CD recordings on jazz are very nice. For sound quality, the Blue Note jazz and RVG Remasters series is hit and miss (mostly miss imo). The music itself is awesome, but many of the recordings are tilted up in the highs and lacking overall sonic weight and bass,(the recordings sound thin), but I own quite a few of these recordings because the artists were too great and their contributions to the Hard Bop genre and Jazz in general are too significant to pass up.

Any suggestions of other well recorded, good sounding, Hard Bop Jazz on CD? (that are still available) Thanks.
foster_9
apachef1
164 posts
 
LOOK FOR GENE AMMONS, SONNY STITT, WYNTON KELLY, EDDIE

LOCKJAW DAVIS LOOK FOR SIDE MEN WHO PLAY FOR THE BIG

NAMES. THEY WOULD BRANCH OUT ON THEIR OWN TO TRY MORE

PROGRESSIVE HARD BOP WHEN JAZZ WAS JUST BECOMING MORE

MANSTREAM AND GETTING AWAY FROM THE BIG BAND ERA.

J&R MUSIC WORLD HAS A NICE INVENTORY. YOU WOULD BE

BETTER OFF FOCUSING ON LIKE MUSIC AS THIS IS WHERE THESE

GUYS REALLY SHINE
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
I would suggest checking into the "Proper" box sets. "Proper" is from England, and are easily available via Amazon. The majority of the Proper box sets are Jazz related, and each box has four discs of a featured artist. The best thing about these sets is they are often early recordings of 78s, or mono 33.33 recordings. The sound (considering the sources) is very goood. For material available only on expesive old records, or on 78s, or radio transcriptions, these are wonderful.
Even though many artists played with each other, NONE of the boxes contain duplicates. So MANY jazz artists can be playing alone with an artist in a box. and for all the boxes, none of the recordings are duplicates. (pretty fantastic and a labor of love).
Anyway. one of my favorites is "Bebop Spoken Here". Another is "Jazz at the Philharmonic".
They have a great sound (considering when recorded.)
I hope you may love them as much as i do.
I actually own about 45 different Jazz Properboxes
orpheus10
5,988 posts
 
If you want box sets you will go crazy with Mosaic Box Sets of Hard Bop. True Blue also has box sets of hard bop. The advantage is hearing music by your favorite artists that you never heard before, the disadvantage is duplication. Tina Brooks and Ike Quebec are fantastic "Hard Bop" tenor saxmen that you might not be too familiar with who are comparable to the best.
grimace
624 posts
 
For newer recordings, but in that tradition, check out the Sharp Nine record label (www.sharpnine.com). They've got really great talent and their recording quality is consistently first-rate. The Grant Stewart albums, as well as the Anthony Wonsey discs are outstanding. I've never gotten a bad CD from them. Titles are readily available on Amazon.
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