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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ARSCLIST] United Archives label From: Peter Hirsch <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, December 23, 2011 9:56 pm To: [log in to unmask] Does anyone have any knowledge of any releases on the United Archives label? It appears to be one or those (possibly shady legally speaking, like Fresh Air) European operations that release old jazz recordings in budget format, but I can't dig up the content of anything that they have issued. I recently seen the following listed at about $4 a disc, but I can't locate any listing of the tracks and I am more than a little dubious about the quality of the originals and transfers: Miles Davis: Live Recordings, 1948-1957'. (Also featuring John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Tommy Flanagan, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor et al. Various concerts and radio broadcasts. Venues include Royal Roost, Pershing Ballroom, Salle Pleyel, Carnegie Hall, The Barrelhouse Club, Birdland, Hi-Hat Club, Newport Jazz Festival, and Cafe Bohemia) Dizzy Gillespie: Complete Big Band Studio Sessions, 1946-1960'. (Also featuring John Coltrane and Quincy Jones) Ellington, Duke: 'The Complete Orchestral Suites'. (Composer conducting. Rec. 1931-60) I hope this is not too discographic and non-technical for the scope of this list, but I'm sure someone here can enlighten me. Thanks in advance, Peter Hirsch Peter -- Quite the contrary, unless what you are meaning is you think this is too discographical a question for the list, your info is really not discographical enough if you have more info than this. Ypu should always give all the identifying discographical info you already have about a record you are asking about to help us identify it and not go hunting up info you already have. This seems to be a fairly new operation issuing both classical and jazz box sets. There are four classical box sets linked at http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/l/United+Archives but I see several other Schubert, Shoenberg and Koussevitzky boxes from a few years earlier at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=%22United+Archives%22+&x=10&y=19 . The nine jazz sets can be linked at http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_fr_FR=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=united+archives+jazz&x=0&y=0 I also have a listing for the Miles Davis set NUA 08 and Oscar Peterson set NUA 04 at http://harmoniamundiuk.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/oct3_jazzworld_wp.pdf They show an Oct 3 2011 release date, so info seems to only be starting to come available. The dates and locations are show for the Davis recordings, and the composers for the Songbooks in the Peterson box. No song titles, but that would be secondary info -- I MUCH rather have the dates and locations than just song titles for performers who had performed or recorded each song title perhaps dozens of times! There is a discussion of some of the sets in this list http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/61928-are-there-any-box-bargains-currently-available/page__st__840 This is a listing of the Davis set http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Recordings-1948-1957-13CD-box/dp/B005HPQ7KK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320389198&sr=1-1 Mike Biel [log in to unmask]