Answering a couple of posts here.
Guys thinking they need music to "get girls" have problems beyond musical taste.
If you define your friends by their reactions to your intellectual pursuits, you are in big trouble.
My wife of 42 years is still here and she knows more/different things about Roscoe, Joseph, Lester, Malachi, etc than I do. She dances to Snurdy. Guess I'm lucky.
My inspiration for the "limited - numbered edition" was Norman Granz's Jazz Scene. I'm sure that's the source of the Mosaic plan too.
In the early stages of preparing the set, Charlie Lourie (Michael's partner in Mosaic) called me to buy my catalog so they could issue a set like this.