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Title: Another slipshod job by Sony/Columbia Legacy
Review: It hurts not to give every Duke Ellington collection a rave review. But somebody needs to take Sony to task for its poor packaging of jazz giants. While the music here is mostly fine, it's another pick-and-choose collection that leaves out so many essentials of each period.Sony didn't have the guts to follow RCA's lead on The Duke and produce a comprehensive and complete set of the master's recordings from their vaults. Now I guess we have to wait until the bicentennial.Sony should just get out of the jazz business. They stink. Their representations of Count Basie's classic recordings are a travesty. To date, Teddy Wilson's best dates remain unreleased. I could go on and on. Jazz aficianados know the score.The only artists they've represented well are Miles Davis and Billie Holiday. Why? They sell. Therein lies the whole big Sony lie. They don't care about the historical significance of the music. They only care about the bucks.
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