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Unless there's a license-imposed time limit on the O'Day. You may want to check that out. ← Ron, do you have any reliable information that indicates that Mosaic has ever been prevented from selling a set that it had already produced because of a license-imposed time limitation? I do NOT mean to sound condescending - you well could be right. However, I think that it would be very easy to draft a contract (and just as easy to negotiate for a contract) that would allow Mosaic to continue to sell any sets that it had on hand after the respective licensing agreement had expired. Moreover, how does one explain all of the partial sets that Mosaic has sold over the years if it is prohibited from selling sets for which the license has expired?

Anyone who wants a copy of the New Orleans Jazz Sessions (1 copy left!) should order now!!! Mosaic has also dug up two copies of the Amos Milburn set on lp.

Thanks! I would welcome any additional comments, although it probably does not matter now as I have decided that I will probably place an order for the Ory set tomorrow morning. Mosaic was down to about 200 sets when I called them earlier this afternoon. As for the Anita O'Day/J.J. Johnson debate, I would say that these are both great sets. However, I think that the J.J. Johnson will probably last another month based upon B. Goren's information that there were 700 sets left earlier today. The Anita O'Day, on the other hand, will probably disappear a lot more quickly. The difference in prices between these sets is not significant (~$32). Moreover, I believe that significantly fewer Anita O'Day sets were pressed relative to the J.J. Johnson set, meaning that it will probably be a lot harder (and a lot more expensive) to purchase a set second-hand somewhere down the road.

Last Chance: The Complete Anita O'Day Verve/Clef Sessions (#188) Running Low: The Complete CBS Recordings of Eddie Condon (#152) LP The Complete Columbia J.J. Johnson Small Group Sessions (#169) The Complete Kid Ory Verve Sessions (#189) Any comments regarding the Ory set?

Thanks, Lon! As it so happens, I placed a fairly large order with Worlds Records last night (for some clearance items); but I was able to call them this afternoon and tack on the Cliff Jackson Jazz Oracle CD as well as "A Gift from the President".

Band of Brothers - Complete Series Chappelle's Show - Seasons 1-2 Family Guy - Seasons 1-3 Friends - Seasons 1-9 Looney Tunes - Golden Collection 1-2 Man Show - Season 1 (a gift) MASH - Seasons 1-3 (The Trapper John Years) Monty Python's Flying Circus - Complete Series Scrubs - Season 1 Seinfeld - Seasons 1-3 Simpsons - Seasons 1-5 Son of the Beach - Volume 1 X-Files - Season 1 I would like to get a few more seaons of the X-Files, but they are awfully expensive (unless you buy the Chinese versions). I recently borrowed The Job from a friend, and it is one of the funniest shows that I have ever seen. Too bad that it could not have lasted a couple of more seasons.

Thanks! Actually, I already had quite a bit of Evans (the Complete Verve box, , The Last Waltz, Turn out the Stars, the five SACD hybrids, and eight other discs), but I had held off on purchasing the Riverside material based upon feedback that I had received regarding the CD mastering. I am bit of a neophyte where vinyl is concerned, and I should probably invest in a better turntable before too long. I have been spending too much of my discretionary income on bargain LP boxed sets. (Hey, Wolff, did you notice that Commodore III box (poorly titled on Ebay) that went for about $150.00 on July 1st? It drives me crazy because I was called away from my computer at work about five minutes before the auction ended and the winning bidder had purchased another copy of the set for about $380.00 (I think) just prior.)

I'm pretty sure I've seen this go for $200-300, open. What year was it pressed? Mastering credit? ← Brownie is right - the set is copyrighted 1984 and was remastered by Gary Hobish at Fantasy Studios in the summer of 1984.

Thanks for the input. I purchased the factory sealed set for about $97.50 including tax. Unfortunately, it is not a Japanese pressing. The booklet indicates that it is one of a limited edition of 5,000 sets.

A 2-CD set is slated to be released in the Connoisseur series this October. Does anyone know whether this set will contain any previously unissued tracks?

This weekend I spotted a factory sealed copy of the Complete Bill Evans on Riverside for a great price. Can anyone offer any input as to the sound quality of the lp's in this set? (I have read on this board that the sound quality of Riverside vinyl is variable.) Thanks!!!

There are four ABCKO SACD hybrids: Ain't That Good News Sam Cooke at the Copa Keep Movin' On Portrait of a Legend I recommend that you start off with Portrait of a Legend and then go from there. (Keep Movin' On is a compilation covering Sam Cooke's late career work.)

With all due respect, mate, I think that Guinness is just a tad over-rated (although I realize that you might get better/stronger stuff in Europe). I really enjoy certain British, Irish, and Belgian beers; I am generally not so keen on German and Czech ones. I think that I will open up one of these tonight and let the evening roll onward:

Thanks for the information, Sidewinder.

All right, I am looking at my set as I write and I do not see any signature from "Boxman" anywhere. My bonus disc is also a 45 single, but it only has one track, "Untitled Blues". The flipside of the single has the words, "The Complete Keynote Collection", and the Keynote logo etched into the vinyl. The single is housed in an ordinary looking blue and white sleeve reading, "nippon phonogram". How different is my set from others'? (The music, obviously, is still wonderful, and I would not easily part with this set.)

$100 at Amoeba!!!!! Amazing. They must have mis-counted the number of LPs in the box set. ← Well, they did miscount, but they were only off by one. The sale tag indicated that the set included 20 lp's plus one ep. As you well know, Amoeba tends to ask far too much for most of their Mosaic sets - once in a while, though, you will find a relative bargain. I am surprised that they did not price the Keynote set accordingly. Wolff, thanks for the ebay statistics regarding the Commodore sales. I guess that I was really lucky with the first two sets. I have a feeling that it is going to be some time before I get the opportunity to pick up Vol.3 for a good price.

I agree largely with Dr. J's assessment. I don't know if you can reasonably expect to purchase this set for much less than $10 per lp in the foreseeable future. Of course, a couple of months ago, I was able to purchase a sealed (re-sealed?), brand new copy of the Keynote set at Amoeba Hollywood for $100 - the folks at Amoeba usually do a better job of gauging the value of such sets. There truly is a lot of great music on these lp's. On a related note, has anyone else noticed that, overall, the average ebay selling price for the first two Mosaic Commodore sets seems to have come down dramatically over the last year or so? I have seen a number of these Mosaics end up being sold for around the original list price or lower.

Robert, These are the originals with book and box and not "copies" as you not indicates??? m- ← I also want to play it safe and confirm as much considering the word "copy" is subject to more than one interpretation. Thanks!

Sent a PM regarding the Turrentine set.

Some of us didn't realize that this poll existed until after the game was over. Had I been asked before the game started who I thought was going to win, I would have said the Spurs; and that is how I voted, albeit belatedly. I also thought, however, that the Pistons could easily have won this game. As others have mentioned, they seemed to be a little out of sync in the 4th quarter (not something that I would have expected from such a well-coached and poised team), and that was their downfall.

I've never seen this particular set go for so much, and there are still four days left in the auction. Moreover, this may be the highest price I've seen paid per Mosaic lp. Mosaic Box

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, this title (along with "Bravo! Brubeck") was on 7-14 day backorder with JRR when I placed a second order yesterday.

I always assumed that once the lease expired, they had to stop selling the sets - regardless of what they had in stock. ← I think you're right. ← I suppose that it would depend upon the particular lease agreement, but I don't generally think that this is the case. First, such practice would be extremely wasteful. Second, how does one explain all of the partial sets that Mosaic has sold to its customers over the years after the expiration of various lease agreements? I do think it quite possible, however, that many of the lease agreements contain some sort of clause preventing Mosaic from pressing more than X number of sets just before the lease is set to expire.

I purchased a second Mobley set earlier this year (as with the Byrd/Adams set, I sold my first Mobley set a few years ago), and the set number is 3211. ← Thanks, Hans. It seems, then, (unless Hans received a low numbered set that had been returned - not likely), that Cuscuna and/or EMI will let the lease on the Mobley set expire when it is determined that the set is no longer sufficiently profitable. That well may be years from now. For those of you who might be waiting for U.S. releases of the individual albums, it is interesting to note that only one of the six albums from the long OOP Lee Morgan 50's set has thus far been reissued in the U.S. It has also occurred to me that the leasing agreement for the Verve Kid Ory set has already expired, but that Mosaic is sitting on a large enough stockpile to satisfy the set's relatively meager annual sales for some time to come.

Of course, it's not an exact science, but I think that the most important factors in predicting whether a particular set might be going OOP soon are the following: 1) how long the set has been available, 2) the size of the set, and, perhaps most importantly, 3) which label is licensing the set In regard to the last factor, the Woody Shaw (Sony) set was available for quite a long time, and the J.J. Johnson (Sony) set has been available for almost 9 years now. I also think that sets licensed from EMI (Blue Note, Capitol, Pacific Jazz, Roulette, Solid State) are much more likely to receive extended or renewed (i.e., greater than 5 years) licensing agreements; but, then again, the Byrd/Adams set went OOP in just over five years. I would definitely be ready to pull the trigger on any Verve licensed sets that have been out for around five years or more. Accordingly, the sets that I would be most concerned about purchasing in the near future are, in no particular order, : 1) Hank Mobley 2) Johnny Hodges 3) Max Roach In regard to the Hank Mobley, I would be very interested to learn the set number received by someone who has recently purchased the set.