[Trombone-l] The Verve Vault

[Phil Burton]

I got this information from another e-mail list server, and am passing it on for your review.  I am sooo proud of myself in that "so far" I have only i-Tuned one selection so far, the Kai Winding album, but am soooo close to picking up the JJ one also...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: *******
To: "Jazz West Coast List" 
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:09 PM
Subject: [jazz-westcoast] The Verve Vault


While I would much prefer to pay a little more and have a jewelbox or 
digipak with artwork, booklet, liner notes and discography, the "Verve 
Vault" at the Verve Interactive website looms as a godsend for jazz 
collectors looking for rare, out-of-print albums.

Several hundred "forgotten" titles from Verve, Mercury and other 
Universal-owned labels are now available for digital download, mostly from iTunes. The Verve site is nicely laid out with original album covers, track lists, personnel and mini-reviews. For some albums, you can sample all or most of the tunes.  Check it out...

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/series.aspx?sid=26&ob=bf&src=vault

This past weekend I downloaded and burned to CD two long unavailable sets by favorite trombonists: J.J. Johnson's "Proof Positive" on Impulse and Bob  Brookmeyer's "Jazz Is a Kick" on Mercury.

Of course, thousands of in-print jazz albums and individual tracks are also  available for download from iTunes, real.com. msnmusic and other sites.   We're talking here about titles that we may never see again in hardcopy unless they're repackaged in Spain or Andorra.

For what it's worth,

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Phil

		
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