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Title: Expensive!
Review: Just a little tip for the less affluent: you can get 10 of the better tracks from this collection, plus another half hour's worth of some good latter day Duke, on "Duke Ellington's Finest Hour" for 12 bucks.Yes, these are wonderful recordings of the early growth of big band jazz, very good time music in the Fletcher Henderson vein. And add my vote for the Decca remastering school of thought: don't kill the music just to get out the noise. But I just really don't care to listen to so many alternate takes back to back. I ended up burning my own set with all the alternates sequestered to the 3rd CD.
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