V.A. - RCA Victor 80th Anniversary [9CD Box Set] (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 2,75 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 1,3 GB | Covers - 56 MB
Genre: Early Jazz, Big Band, Dixieland, Swing, Cool Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA Victor/BMG (09026-68949-2)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 2,75 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 1,3 GB | Covers - 56 MB
Genre: Early Jazz, Big Band, Dixieland, Swing, Cool Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA Victor/BMG (09026-68949-2)
This is an attractive eight-CD set (+ Bonus CD), whose discs are also available as eight separate releases, that could have been a great reissue but settled for being merely quite good. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first jazz recording, RCA released a disc apiece covering each of the past eight decades. In listening to the music straight through, one becomes aware of RCA's strengths and weaknesses as a jazz label. Victor was one of the most important jazz labels during the 1920s, '30s and '40s, catching on to bebop a little late (1946) but still documenting many classic recordings. By the 1950s, the label's attention was wandering elsewhere; it missed free jazz almost completely in the '60s, and in the last three decades has only had a few significant artists, mostly Young Lions whose output sounds conservative compared to the earlier masters…