Vinyl is back at Mosaic !!!!

[Ed S]

Just got the email

Interesting

Best Vinyl Shop

Mosaic Records Launches New Website - TheBestVinylShop.com

The Best Vinyl Shop

What Is TheBestVinylShop?

With the TheBestVinylShop.com we've set out to make a trustworthy, user-friendly site that focuses on great music that has been carefully reissued in the LP format for the maximum analog impact. This new site will focus on all things vinyl featuring in Jazz, Classic Rock, R & B and Blues. We will carry much of the product available from various manufacturers such as Classic Records, Speakers Corner, Pure Pleasure and Sundazed.

We've always offered LPs through True Blue Music and customers were grateful to have access to vinyl that the big websites and retail just weren't bothering to carry. We even used our contacts at labels to explore long-forgotten inventory in dark corners of warehouses. In this manner, we were able to make available long out-of-print Japanese pressings of rare albums by Elmo Hope, J.R. Monterose and even Marty Paich on red vinyl! A friend at Fantasy found an ample stash of 10" LPs originally pressed in the early '90s as a custom order for Japan. And we're still on the hunt for treasures all the time.

We Need Your Opinions and Expertise

We've initiated an LP Lover's Community Blog which will enable you to post and to read other's thoughts on various topics about a lost art, "Listening and Experiencing Music". This is the first baby step in creating a community and we'll see what evolves. We hope you post and post often.

For this site to be informative and useful we are also asking for your help in posting reviews. When you visit the site, post a review. It's very easy and you'll be providing a great service to passionate music lovers throughout the world.

Launch Promotion - 1 Week Only!

We've selected ten exceptional LPs that we want to give away that normally retail for $10.98. Just order a minimum of $60 worth of LPs (exclusive of shipping) and pick an LP for Free. There is a limit of one per customer (not per order) for the week. Promotion ends Tuesday, November 18th.

Here's how it works: Load up your cart with a minimum of $60 of Vinyl and on the last page of the checkout process just type the LP you wish in the "Shipping Instructions" box from this list. This list can also be accessed on the left under "Search by Category" listing.

Order $60 of Vinyl & Pick A Free New LP!

Bobby Bradford - And The Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Vol. One

John Coltrane - Soultrane

Miles Davis - New Miles Quintet

Mile Davis - Quintet/Sextet (w/Milt Jackson)

Duke Ellington - Great Times

Bill Evans - Live At The Village Vanguard

Earl Hines - Monday Date

Bobby Hutcherson - Solo & Quartet

Sun Ra - Sound of Joy

Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues

MOSAIC RECORDS HQ VINYL SERIES

As many of you know Mosaic's birth began in 1984 with LP box sets. With the advent of the CD a few years later, box sets were produced in both LP and CD format. Mosaic's exit from LP sets in 2000 was not just a product of the shrinking vinyl market, but also the fact that an LP counterpart to a large Mosaic CD set can become very unwieldy and expensive.

In 2005, the discovery of an amazing 1957 Carnegie Hall concert by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane turned my world upside down. In the process of securing these performances for Blue Note, I asked Larry Appelbaum of the Library Of Congress who discovered the material to personally courier the tapes to New York where we could transfer them in 24-bit. When I held and heard those tapes, I knew something else needed to be done. While everyone adjourned for lunch, I stayed at the studio, Master Cutting Room, and asked Kevin Hodge to fire up the lathe. In two hours we had cut the LP lacquers that would put Mosaic Records back into the LP business.

In the three intervening years, vinyl has become a media story with large chains selling reasonably-priced turntables to 20-somethings and major labels judiciously releasing old and new titles. And of course, the audiophile labels are still plugging away with "I-told-you-so" Cheshire cat smiles on their faces.

While preparing the Ahmad Jamal CD box set due next spring, it occurred to us that an 8-CD set doesn't have to give birth to a back-busting box of twelve 180-gram LPs; it can also give birth to a double-album reissue of both LPs of Ahmad Jamal at The Pershing, the groundbreaking albums that generated such influential hits as "Poinciana."

Freed from thinking that Mosaic LPs have to mirror out large CD sets, we've engaged in a treasure hunt coming up with new title ideas like reissuing those two magnificent Lucky Thompson-Oscar Pettiford albums on ABC-Paramount or Duke Ellington's 1963 masterpiece "Afro Bossa." How about the complete Thelonious Monk "Live At The It Club" on LP for the first time, beautifully remixed from the original three-track masters? We've only just begun.

We have a number of exciting projects on the Mosaic list so stay tuned for the inaugural release in 2009!

- Michael Cuscuna

SIGN UP FOR VINYL NEWS

This e-mail has been sent to all Mosaic friends around the world. In the future we will only send vinyl related e-mails to those who have purchased vinyl from us or have signed up at our new site. If you wish to recieve upcoming news about new releases and last chance items please sign up at

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Mosaic Records could not even attempt to do some of the projects we do without your support; from a Bix Beiderbecke 7 CD set to an Anthony Braxton 8 CD set to the launch of this new Vinyl site. As many of you know who have been loyal members of the Mosaic family for the past 25 years, the only thing that rivals our passion for music is our adamant commitment that the customer be treated with the utmost respect and appreciation as members of our family.

Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy our new vinyl initiatives and welcome your feedback and suggestions.

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Sincerely,

All of us at Mosaic Records

Edited November 12, 2008 by Ed Swinnich

[Shawn]

About 2 weeks ago I was talking to Lon and said "I bet Mosaic gets back on the vinyl bandwagon"...

[Ed S]

...... sound of crickets........

[porcy62]

Glad about it, though I am one of the guys (many, I think) who thought Mosaic shouldn't have stop issuing vinyls at all.

[.:.impossible]

I think there was another thread about this already.

Personally, I have a hard time paying $30 for a record. I've never paid that much for a CD. I have paid $30 for a 2LP...

[Stefan Wood]

But it seems there won't be lp counterparts to the cd boxes........

[Jazzmoose]

I think there was another thread about this already.

Personally, I have a hard time paying $30 for a record. I've never paid that much for a CD. I have paid $30 for a 2LP...

$30??? Okay, I was interested up to that point...

[BruceH]

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but $30 per LP would be a little too pricey for me.

[Shrdlu]

We can thank the world of house music for this, cos lots of house (family) DJs spin vinyl, and quite a few hate CDs. (Not me though - vinyl is a pain in the ass when you are beat-matching, compared with CDs on a Pioneer CDJ 1000.)

Much though I love LPs for jazz, I wonder about the sound though. A new LP will have been processed digitally at some stage(s) and so we are not going back to the pre-CD era soundwise.

Plus, as one who grew up with analog records, I really enjoy nearly all of the CDs that I have (heresy, I know, lol) and, dare I say it, I'm even happy with mp3 and ogg and the other suffixes.