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The Keynote Jazz Collection: 1941-1947
Fresh Sound FRS-CD 815 (11 discs)
The out-of-copyright materials just keep on a-comin'! Yet another great package from Spain has come to hand as a result. I missed out on buying a Keynote box a couple of years ago in Sydney at a used LP store (for a ridiculous figure)... a Mosaic or a Japanese release, I do not now remember. To my eyes, this collection is every recorded jazz session by the label with no alternative takes - fair enough, I say. It does, though, include sides originally unreleased back in the day and it's 11 CDs full of grand material that many (most?) of you should be familiar with. The fairly bulky (124 pages) but well-written and assembled accompanying booklet contains a basic chronological sessionography/discography info for each session as well as copies of reviews of the discs from back in the day from down beat and/or Metronome. Photo-strewn, there is a 42 page essay by Jordi Pujol on the label's history and the...