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Yes, absolutely. I'm sorry I didn't know the story. I hope you get better and please disregard my inquiry.

What would it take for this web site to assume ownership of the PDF downloads?

Art Tatum - Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces, now on disc 4 Finally got a copy after owning only the "Best Of" single CD.

I take it you weren't running OS 10.5 or 10.6 on the old iMac with Time Machine? That's a shame.

Fifteen CDs by mail will cost you $17 in shipping. Rarely does J&R offer free shipping on CDs, no matter how large the order.

Have you guys noticed that jayandmarie on eBay seem to have found a fairly large stash of Mosaic Select - Piano Trios? The price has steadily decreased over the last 6 weeks worth of 5-day auctions. The last three sold in the $35 range (down from a high of $86), what I would consider a bargain for one of those sets that suddenly went OOP a couple of autumns ago. Next auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310314153751 What you get: a sealed set with the UPC blotted out, slightly banged up because it gets shipped in a CD-sized bubble envelope instead of the box it deserves.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you happen to score so many promo sets from Mosaic?

Now that's a good customer!

I haven't been listening and collecting jazz for very long, but here are the albums/sets I routinely never tire of and have played the most often:

I figure if Mosaic Records went through the trouble of making an LP version for it, it's gotta be good. Got my shipping notice two days ago.

Hi! This is a German edition (by the German magazine SPIEGEL). It is basically the same that the well known Euro-Mosaic editions although with a different format (long shape by Spiegel). Previous discussion in organissimo: You can find additional details by amazon.de and at the Spiegel homepage (in German...): http://www.amazon.de/Reprise-Studio-Recordings-Duke-Ellington/dp/B0000A9DYT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300037256&sr=1-1 http://shop.spiegel.de/shop/action/productDetails/4398489/duke_ellington_the_reprise_studio_recordings.html?aUrl=90009999 I hope that this info is helpful. Thanks, Scorpion! Gotta admit, I've been watching Mosaic auctions for nearly 5 years and this is the first time I recall seeing this particular edition for sale.

I don't know, man, but if I really, really wanted an Onzy now instead of waiting until May, I'd cough up the 2,200% premium.

Okay, folks, help me out here. What is this? I've never seen anything like it: Duke Ellington -Reprise Studio Recordings- Mosaic, 5 CD A hardbound book, presumably with the CDs inside it, all looking like a Mosaic package?

I've actually never seen one of these for sale, but then again I don't normally scan the LP listings. If the CD limit is 7,500, what was the vinyl limit?

This is an inside joke, right?

Never heard of a set on backorder for 7 years and still coming through, though I must admit my 3-month True Blue order of Gigi Gryce - The Hap'nin's might turn out that way. True Blue claims the manufacturer hasn't officially told them it's out-of-print, so they're still expecting it to come in. My credit card will probably be expired by then.

This weekend I wrote Mosaic an email asking for a replacement disc for the stray trumpet note and to clear up the controversy over late numbered Mobley sets (7421, 7424, 7442), as documented in this thread. Here's Fred's response:

Larry, I've been a long time Mac user. Up until 6 months ago I too was running Tiger (10.4). Looks like Quincy provided the right link for downloading Safari again. You should probably never delete a base application like Safari or iChat. If you don't use an application that appears in your toolbar at the bottom, simply drag it out of the toolbar (watch it go poof!) and you won't have to worry about accidentally clicking on it. If an application starts up immediately upon login, you can undo that state by right-clicking the toolbar icon -> Options -> Open at Login (toggle off). (If your mouse doesn't have right-click, hold down the Control key as you single-click).

We'll certainly wait and see. I was one of those buyers last summer. I remember someone on eBay selling a mint copy for $130 around the same time and chuckling to myself, well I just scored a brand new one for less. Silly me. This time Amazon claims "Only X left in stock--order soon (more on the way)". Really? How endless is this supply?

Well, I ditched Netflix in June and am back to using Redbox and BBX. Surely I'm not alone?

Note how one of the Mosaic Singles is about to go OOP for the first time.

Shall we assume that Mosaic knows exactly which serial numbers were affected and will automatically send out replacements? I assume you in particular had been in contact with them over this issue.

I've always used the Grouping field to contain the personnel by name and instrument. Nice thing about that field is that your previous entries are remembered and auto-fill as you type. Not so with the Comments field, which I use to store the original album name for songs in a compilation set.

Not a bad Groupon deal: http://www.groupon.com/deals/blockbuster-national If you haven't tried Blockbuster Express yet, it's essentially Redbox's main competition.

I finally downloaded my Sonny Rollins - Complete Prestige box set into iTunes and have been enjoying it immensely. :tup