Actually, the Amazon vendor, BuyCDNow of Vermont, merits 10 stars out of five for truly outstanding service. I initially ordered this CD from another Amazon USA vendor, but, when the order did not arrive after the minimum 60 days waiting period specified by Amazon, and then when the vendor failed to respond to two, follow-up, direct E-Mail inquiries over the next two weeks, I re-ordered with another Amazon USA vendor, BuyCDNow. I asked them to take special care in mailing the shipment, as my previous order was two and a half months overdue and presumably lost somewhere in the U.S. or Canadian postal systems. BuyCDNow responded to my order promptly, and, in a couple of friendly E-Mail messages, advised that the shipment would be mailed in Montreal, Canada, and provided the package's computer tracking number in the Canadian postal system. Exactly one week after placing my order, I was listening to the CDs on my stereo. I've bought a lot of books and CDs from Amazon USA vendors over the last seven years; the service from most of them has been good, and from maybe a dozen exceptionally good, but no one to date in my experience has provided such outstanding service as BuyCDNow of Vermont. They seem to bend over backwards to serve you as well as possible, and then some.
As for the CD, anything by Mr Shaw merits five stars in my opinion, but this two-disc volume (and its two companion volumes) gets eight stars out of five! Tom Nolan, in his great new book Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw (2010, pp 345-6), cites reviews that praise these last recordings as among Mr. Shaw's best work, referring to the CDs put out in the early 1990s by MusicMasters. This CD volume and the other two companion volumes are issued by Nimbus Records, apparently re-issues of the recordings and liner notes first put out by MusicMasters, but apparently considerably expanding the amount of material presented, as each of the three volume contains two CDs, for a total of six discs. The quality of the sound reproduction on all of them is superb. The 1990s recordings were made with the assistance of Mr. Shaw, from his tapes of his 1945 - 1954 performances. He also contributed to the excellent and fascinating liner notes written by Mr. Dan Morgenstern and Mr. Loren Schoenberg. When the notes switch from the general to each of the selections on the CDs, the discussion might get a little musically technical for some, but is still most informative and helpful.
All in all, I strongly recommend without reservation both the vendor, BuyCDNow, and all three Nimbus Records' volumes of Artie Shaw's last recordings.
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