first Mosaic set?

[ghost of miles]

I just pulled out the Andrew Hill Blue Note 1963-66 set for some late-night listening and in so doing realized that it's the first Mosaic set I ever got--way back in late 1995, not long after it was released. My friend Sascha had hipped me to the label during a conversation at the record store where I worked at the time, and the Hill set hooked me right away (when I bought it, the only CD I had of his was JUDGMENT). What was your first Mosaic set?

[Eric]

My first was the very first - the Monk Blue Note set. Christmas 1984 (or was it 1985).

[Dave Garrett]

Mine was the Ellington Reprise set. Had my eye on it for a while before finally taking the plunge, thus opening the floodgates.

[medjuck]

The Mingus Candid set.

[BFrank]

Larry Young

[brownie]

Herbie Nichols came first in the mid 80s.. Mosaic was a vinyl only label back then!

[CJ Shearn]

Jimmy Smith in 1996.

[John L]

T-Bone Walker, immediately after release.

[xybert]

Henry Threadgill.

Edited October 27, 2013 by xybert

[Head Man]

Tina Brooks...the vinyl version.

[erwbol]

Andrew Hill Solo, Mosaic Select 23.

[sidewinder]

I think it was the Hill set - or maybe it was my first Jackie McLean 'partial' set (it had already sold out).

Edited October 27, 2013 by sidewinder

[JohnS]

Gerry Mulligan then Herbie Nichols

[gmonahan]

The Monk Bliue Note set for me too.

gregmop

[romualdo]

The Mingus Candid set.

ditto!!

bought in 1993

[jazzbo]

My first Mosaic was the Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set. A fine on indeed! Saw it advertised in a magazine and went for it. So glad I did.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I started with two at once! In June 2000, I got the Horace Parlan and Blue Mitchell boxes all in one box.

MG

[king ubu]

Tristano/Konitz/Marsh ... first one, bought while in high school, huge hassle (and expenses) then, had to pay by sending an IMO (took two weeks or so to arrive, then I waited 2-3 months for surface shipping - which turned out to be the safest way and the one most often to slip through customs without causing any additional expenses, so I gladly - yet impatiently - waited).

After that, I started picking them up in groups of two or three to six .... other ones I got early on include the Basie Roulette live, the Giuffre, Chico Hamilton, Lee Morgan, but I'm really not sure about the sequence after the TKM which kind of caused an avalanche

[crisp]

I didn't hear about Mosaic until we first got the internet at work. I recall being amazed and delighted that you could get complete sets of JJ Johnson on Columbia and Teddy Wilson on Verve. What was available in shops (B&M) was so piecemeal by comparison.

Anyway, I always bought in multiples amounting to 12 discs to capitalise on the overseas shipping rate, so my first purchase was three 4-disc sets:

Jack Teagarden on Capitoi

Kenton Presents

Stuff Smith on Verve

Still remember the thrill of opening the package and working my way through them. I bought the Johnson and Wilson in my next batch and both are still among my favourites.

One day I hope to have the nerve to buy the ones that were already oop when I heard of Mosaic and which now cost big bucks: Shearing, Clayton, both Basie Roulettes, Condon, Ferguson and, of course, Nat Cole. One day...

[Justin V]

The Paul Chambers Mosaic Select, which began my love affair with the great Donald Byrd's music.

[Rooster_Ties]

Don Cherry, circa 1995?

[king ubu]

Don Cherry, circa 1995?

That one was gone when I "joined" (1997 I assume, maybe 1998 - the TKM came somewhen in 1997, but it took me a few months after reading and clipping a rewiew to figure out how to get hold of it ... and then surface shipping took another pair of months).

[Tom 1960]

T-Bone Walker

[sidewinder]

Don Cherry, circa 1995?

That one was gone when I "joined" (1997 I assume, maybe 1998 - the TKM came somewhen in 1997, but it took me a few months after reading and clipping a rewiew to figure out how to get hold of it ... and then surface shipping took another pair of months).

I didn't get on to Mosaic untill the 2000s and sets like that were long gone by the time I cottoned on to Mosaic's website. The ones I missed have taken some rooting out over the years.

Edited October 27, 2013 by sidewinder

[Chuck Nessa]

Got the Monk and Ammons/Lewis at the same time.