Jim Duckworth Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 My first Mosaic box set was the initial Monk offering. My first purchases reflected the music that I already knew I liked: Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Herbie Nichols, Don Cherry. In the ensuing decades I found myself buying and appreciating sets that would have surprised my earlier self. I certainly didn't know that there were Stan Kenton or Bobby Hackett or Eddie Condon sets in my future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp Posted January 25, 2022 Report Share Posted January 25, 2022 I recall discovering Mosaic in the late 1990s when my office got connected to the internet. I probably found them via the old BNBB. It took me a minute to figure out that these were legit releases -- and in fact by the same people who did the mainstream BN CDs sold in regular shops. Since I had a bit of catching up to do I would buy them in batches adding up to 12 CDs to sneak in on a particular shipping threshold to the UK. So my first order was for three four-disc sets: Teagarden Capitol, Kenton Presents and Stuff Smith. It was a memorable moment when they arrived -- as others have said upthread, you simply couldn't believe you finally owned this music. FWIW I quickly followed that order with one for JJ Johnson and Teddy Wilson, then (I think as a Christmas present to myself) the big 12-disc Capitol set. Magical stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 22 hours ago, crisp said: -- as others have said upthread, you simply couldn't believe you finally owned this music. That was it, always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 23 hours ago, crisp said: -- as others have said upthread, you simply couldn't believe you finally owned this music. 1 hour ago, mikeweil said: That was it, always. I remember when the Tine Brooks box arrived... I was in heaven. An original pressing of "True Blue" was and continues to be a very hard to find & expensive record. Truth be told, even the 1981 King pressing (first stereo release) was difficult to find & also very expensive back then. The Japanese LPs of "Minor Move" (issued in 1980/81) just didn't show up anywhere in my area. This was pre-Internet so you were at the mercy of what someone traded into your local record store. I was talking to one record store owner and he said that if he ever got in a used copy of it, he'd be taking it home as he hadn't been able to find one. The other two titles hadn't been issued at all at that time. Basically, that Tina Brooks box was one of the holy grails of hardbop for this fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 The Ike Quebec 45s were a heart-stopping announcement. As was the Cecil Taylor Candid. And then the unedited Mingus Columbias. And....on and on and on. And now, the Bill Barron set!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 The first thing I did when I got in my Tina Brooks set was record all of the LPs to cassette so I could play them in my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted January 26, 2022 Report Share Posted January 26, 2022 I did that rather quickly as well though I didn't have a car at the time (spent over 20 years in Texas with just a motorcycle) but needed to play them at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Duckworth Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 On 1/26/2022 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said: The first thing I did when I got in my Tina Brooks set was record all of the LPs to cassette so I could play them in my car. A saxophonist friend recorded the Tina Brooks set for me on cassette, and I spent the entire summer with those tapes in constant rotation, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 (edited) On 1/25/2022 at 9:00 AM, Jim Duckworth said: My first Mosaic box set was the initial Monk offering. My first purchases reflected the music that I already knew I liked: Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Herbie Nichols, Don Cherry. In the ensuing decades I found myself buying and appreciating sets that would have surprised my earlier self. I certainly didn't know that there were Stan Kenton or Bobby Hackett or Eddie Condon sets in my future. Same! So much stuff I’ve gotten into over the years that my younger, snottier self passed over without a thought. (Though like others I was also operating on a pretty lean budget and couldn’t afford to be snapping up every box set or reissue that came out.) That 1995 Andrew Hill Blue Note set has a special place in my heart as my first Mosaic (and one that I *still* listen to every several years), as does the McLean 1964-66, which I got shortly thereafter. I think all that I had by either artist at the time were their early entries in the Connoisseur series (Judgment for Hill and Destination Out for McLean, iirc). I still have the Blue Note wristwatch that you got if you sent in OBIs for 10 of the first 12 Connoisseurs! Edited February 7 by ghost of miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 What time is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSngry Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 What's the frequency, Kenneth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 1 hour ago, JSngry said: What time is it? According to my Blue Note wristwatch, it's been 11:29:15 for about the past 20 years now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Timeless music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 11 minutes ago, ghost of miles said: According to my Blue Note wristwatch, it's been 11:29:15 for about the past 20 years now! I've still got a bundle of the 'watch offer' OBIs but never got a watch ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Time waits for no man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Time for jazz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybleaden Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 Mine was the Larry Young set I had recently bought a big box of jazz lps (pre ebay) and some of them were Blue Notes - originals too My local jazz record shop in Manchester UK (Decoy Records) had a look and out from under the counter popped a Larry Young Mosaic set - AND a box of the Other Side of the 1500 Series (Japanese LPs) I went home happier than I had ever felt trading records. Larry Young I had only heard I think 3 tracks of and there was all his stuff and his sides with Grant Green ....and then that Japanese Blue Note set. Still have the Larry Young set - my favourite still. Bought all the Blue Note boxes and loved ringing up from the UK (as fast as I could as it cost a fortune) to place an order for the next one or ones I had missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 I came to Mosaic somewhat late, missing out on the original Andrew Hill box and Jackie McLean and even Herbie Nichols. I would have snatched these up, and only gradually was able to get all the original music on CD (with the 3 CD set Nichols' set BN put out later making things much easier!). I think the first Mosaic set I ordered was Hank Mobley. Over the years, I've accumulated a fair number of sets, though I don't listen to them nearly as often as I should. I think my favorites remain some of the individual Select sets. Sadly I've just changed to a new job where it will be next to impossible to listen to this type of music at work (we can't even play ripped music because the USB ports are turned off and needless to say playing music from "the cloud" is frowned upon...). My recent order of the Don Byas set (and Sonny Clark) is fairly likely to be my last order, but I suppose never say never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 11 minutes ago, ejp626 said: Sadly I've just changed to a new job where it will be next to impossible to listen to this type of music at work (we can't even play ripped music because the USB ports are turned off and needless to say playing music from "the cloud" is frowned upon...). My recent order of the Don Byas set (and Sonny Clark) is fairly likely to be my last order, but I suppose never say never. I recently left a job in a classified lab with those same restrictions you mention but we somehow managed to be able to stream Spotify in there. I assume the IT group somehow managed that one network port so that it was "one way", so we had no way to move data out but we could stream things in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted February 19 Report Share Posted February 19 3 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said: I recently left a job in a classified lab with those same restrictions you mention but we somehow managed to be able to stream Spotify in there. I assume the IT group somehow managed that one network port so that it was "one way", so we had no way to move data out but we could stream things in. I haven't tried Youtube, which may or may not be available, but usually raises red flags. So far, I am able to access and play music from Bandcamp. (No idea how long this loophole will be available.) I have a decent Bandcamp collection, and I suppose I will start buying more music that way, so long as I can listen at work, though this of course doesn't address the Mosaic issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 20 Report Share Posted February 20 On 2/19/2024 at 10:01 AM, andybleaden said: Mine was the Larry Young set I had recently bought a big box of jazz lps (pre ebay) and some of them were Blue Notes - originals too My local jazz record shop in Manchester UK (Decoy Records) had a look and out from under the counter popped a Larry Young Mosaic set - AND a box of the Other Side of the 1500 Series (Japanese LPs) I went home happier than I had ever felt trading records. Larry Young I had only heard I think 3 tracks of and there was all his stuff and his sides with Grant Green ....and then that Japanese Blue Note set. Still have the Larry Young set - my favourite still. Bought all the Blue Note boxes and loved ringing up from the UK (as fast as I could as it cost a fortune) to place an order for the next one or ones I had missed. I just finished listening to that Larry Young set all the way through for the first time in many years. Such an outstanding collection, with lots of Grant Green to boot. I also enjoyed the post-Unity sessions more this time around than I did when I first got the set in the late 1990s… just played “Evening” on my afternoon show a few days ago as a result of my revisitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adh1907 Posted February 21 Report Share Posted February 21 On 2/19/2024 at 3:01 PM, andybleaden said: Mine was the Larry Young set I had recently bought a big box of jazz lps (pre ebay) and some of them were Blue Notes - originals too My local jazz record shop in Manchester UK (Decoy Records) had a look and out from under the counter popped a Larry Young Mosaic set - AND a box of the Other Side of the 1500 Series (Japanese LPs) I went home happier than I had ever felt trading records. Larry Young I had only heard I think 3 tracks of and there was all his stuff and his sides with Grant Green ....and then that Japanese Blue Note set. Still have the Larry Young set - my favourite still. Bought all the Blue Note boxes and loved ringing up from the UK (as fast as I could as it cost a fortune) to place an order for the next one or ones I had missed. Great shop Decoy. That was Mike Chadwick’s place I recall. Pretty ugly part of town, but much missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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