gmonahan Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 My first Mosaic was the Monk Complete Blue Note box in 1985. But I can't remember what my first box set of any type was. My first Mosaic and my first box! That's 'cause it was THE first Mosaic and THE first Mosaic box! A treasured possession, even if Blue Note did reissue the music on a fine cd set a few years ago. Can't ever have enough Monk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Either the Herbie Nichols box on BN, or the Trane Village Vanguard material. I am a twerp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woofy Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Not many people would admit this...The very first multi-record set I ever purchased? Kiss' re-release of their first three albums as a set around '76. I was 13 and just got a set of drums. (Those were the "Metal" years.) By the time I was 17 I was into Mile's, Sonny, and Coltrane, and anybody with a good drummer. The first Mosaic: The Jazz Messengers and Ike Quebec sets purchased at the same time in the early 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etherbored Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 James Brown's "Startime" when it first was released. Blew my mind back then, and still does today. One of the best box sets available. i second that! i also wonder if there's going to be renewed interest in it now... -e- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I was a kid, mid-1970's, and my Pops subscribed me to the Time-Life "Giants of Jazz" series. I still have about a dozen of the boxes. Lucky!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelz777 Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 (edited) I think my first box set was Bob Dylan's "Biograph" about 20 years ago. My first jazz box set was the Crusaders' "Way Back Home" 15+ years ago . Ironically, my first Mosaic was "The Jazz Crusaders' Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings" in 2005. I didn't think I'd ever fill all the holes in the Way Back Home set. (I still need "Old Socks, New Shoes".) Edited January 2, 2007 by mikelz777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Ptah Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 My first Mosaic was the Thelonious Monk Mosaic. My first jazz box was "The Bass"--an Impulse set. I had also purchased Beethoven's nine Symphonies by Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before Mosaic came into being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Twizzle Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 I'm terrible at remembering names and labels, but it was a five LP Earl Hines box set purchased at one of those down market stores like Disc-o-mat for all of $5 in the early 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAL Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 It was a 3CD EMI compilation called "History of Jazz" which covers the blues to the modern jazz of the 1950s - quite a few of the numbers were recreations of the originals. I was fascinated by the music then, but looking at/listening to the collection now, it's much to be desired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Thesaurus of Classic Jazz (Columbia C4L 18)-- released 1959, got it for my tenth birthday in 1961. ol' man clementine YES! This and the other Columbia boxes of the time - Henderson, Lang/Venuti, Holiday (2) and Ellington (2) - were my introduction to the multi-disc era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alocispepraluger102 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 alfred brendel complete piano works(mid-60's) joseph krips-beethoven symphonies(60's) a big box of duke ellington radio transcriptions sponsored by social security(60's) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Pusey Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Last Days of the Fillmore on vinyl, when it was released. Firts CD box set? a tie between Jefferson Airplane and the Byrds. Jazz came about one year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 My first LP box set was one of the George Harrison triple-LPs, probably The Concert for Bangladesh. First CD box set was Ornette Coleman's Beauty is a Rare Thing. First Mosaic: Jimmy Giuffre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted January 4, 2007 Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Might've been 3LPs worth of Sun Records on Charly, or I may be forgettin' something! (good BN title) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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