[78-L] The new Boswell Sisters Collection on Storyville - Someone really dropped the ball on this!

[Jeff Sultanof]

Hey, maybe Mosaic can still do a set of their own.

Thanks for the heads-up, Steve.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> I got my copy yesterday and the rumors I heard about the quality are -
> indeed - true.
>
> This is a reissue of a set they released years ago on their Nostalgia Arts
> label. But instead of making it better they made it MUCH worse! The five Cds
> are poorly transferred (from the high quality of the NA set), the packaging
> - made in China, not Denmark as other Storyville - is so bad that glue from
> the 5th Cd sleeve leaked on to the CD and my copy was unplayable. Then there
> is the DVD which was to make this package special. The DVD sleeve shows
> SEVEN video clips totaling 47 minutes. But the DVD contains only THREE clips
> of poor quality totaling only SEVEN minutes! And the liner note booklet
> which David Mccain - a Boswell Sisters expert - wrote for the NA set - is
> reproduced in print so small a magnifying glass is needed.
>
> I knew Karl Knudsen (the late founder of Storyville) and if he know of the
> embarrassing quality of this set, he'd be very disappointed. It's an
> important set and I can only hope that someone at Storyville recalls these
> sets and issues them in at least the quality of the previous set. I - for
> one - was really looking forward to its release.
>
> Steve Ramm
>
>
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