first Mosaic set?

[John L]

It is also due to the fact that Mosaic usually licenses the music for only a limited period of time.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

It is also due to the fact that Mosaic usually licenses the music for only a limited period of time.

So some - maybe quite a few - don't ever reach the magic number?

MG

[jazzbo]

Yes, quite a few have "sold out" by "timing out." And a few I don't know why they went out of print, such as the VeeJay ones.

[erwbol]

And yet the Mobley is still available.

[J.A.W.]

And yet the Mobley is still available.

15 years now (it was released in 1998). Seems to be a very slow seller with an infinite license. It's a limited edition of 7,500 - and that includes the long OOP LP edition.

Edited October 27, 2013 by J.A.W.

[sidewinder]

It really is strange that the Mobley has held out as long as it has. Bearing in mind Mobley's big cult popularity and the fact that some of the sets sold out very fast. Defies the laws of physics, that set ! The Django too..

Edited October 27, 2013 by sidewinder

[Blue Train]

It really is strange that the Mobley has held out as long as it has. Bearing in mind Mobley's big cult popularity and the fact that some of the sets sold out very fast. Defies the laws of physics, that set ! The Django too..

I think that's because they reissued everything in it.

[bichos]

Charlie parker: the complete dean Benedetti recordings (7 cd set) Limited Edition: Unlimited copies (what ever that means...)

Keep boppin´

marcel

[Blue Train]

Charlie parker: the complete dean Benedetti recordings (7 cd set) Limited Edition: Unlimited copies (what ever that means...)

Keep boppin´

marcel

My understanding is Mosaic owns the rights to the tapes.

[jazzbo]

The way I see it is summed up in this sentence: Michael Cuscuna is very supportive of the work of Hank Mobley.

[Free For All]

Thad & Mel. I've been hooked ever since.

[king ubu]

It really is strange that the Mobley has held out as long as it has. Bearing in mind Mobley's big cult popularity and the fact that some of the sets sold out very fast. Defies the laws of physics, that set ! The Django too..

I think that's because they reissued everything in it.

Not really... they started reissuing the albums included at a time when it should/could have been sold out already (like with the Hill).

I think it's more about the 1960 (and later) albums being such cult objects, while too many don't really know what they're missing by ignoring the fifties material.

[kh1958]

I took a look at my Monk set to see if I could determine a date of purchase and discovered my number was 5540/7500 so my initial post suggesting I got it as early as late 83 must be wrong. With a number that high it was certainly no earlier than probably the latter half of 1984 or perhaps '85.

Question: of those with the Monk set, which came out in July 1983, who's got the lowest number? Promos don't count.

4830 ... pretty sure I received for Christmas 1984 - still remember the UPS guy showing up ... saw it advertised in Downbeat I believe ... I was 23, right out of college

No. 2238 here.

[Face of the Bass]

J.J. Johnson...still one of my favorites

[GA Russell]

I believe the year was 1986. I received a flyer from Mosaic, which I had not heard of before. I don't know how they got my address, perhaps an old Downbeat mailing list.

I immediately ordered the first two sets they had issued: The Monk Blue Note and the Mulligan/Baker.

[Larry Kart]

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

Mine, too. Followed by the next two -- Mulligan-Baker and Albert Ammons-Meade Lux Lewis. I maintained an unbroken record up until the Commodore sets, which I regretfully decided were too rich for my blood, but picked up the pace again on the other side for a good long while.

[Indestructible!]

Lee Morgan - Complete 50's Blue Note set.

Loved everything about it, and now have about 80 big boxes and 25 selects.

[ejp626]

I was fairly late to the party.* I'm fairly sure my first Mosaic was the Mobley BN set. Not sure what my second set was -- possibly J.J. Johnson.

* The Hill and McLean sets were OOP by then, and while I had opportunities from time to time to pick them up (including Jazz Record Mart back when it was really great) I had started getting the individual sessions by then and couldn't justify it.

[SwingItTrev]

I'm also part of the late-to-the-party crowd. Bought #235 Duke Ellington: 1936-40 Small Group Sessions back in 2006. I now have 18 sets...

[Fred]

The very first set I bought immediatly after the release was the Capitol Ellington, CD version. After this, the Stan Kenton and the Benedetti Parker. I became an addict when I started to buy the "last chance" sets, sometimes few hours before they went OOP. And after this, the forsennate battles on Ebay... Few weeks ago I completed all the box sets (the last, the Bill Evans on Ebay). And being in Italy, it was a real madness.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Fred

[Teasing the Korean]

If I ever buy one, I'll let you know what it is. But I am a Mosaic virgin still.

[paul secor]

Monk BN

[jazzbo]

If I ever buy one, I'll let you know what it is. But I am a Mosaic virgin still.

TTK, I would have thought you would have the Johnny Richards.

[Teasing the Korean]

Johnny Richards runs hot and cold for me. I think "Cuban Fire," "West Side Story" and "Rites of Diablo" are brilliant, but other stuff, like "Wide Range" and "Spanish Spoken Here" leave me cold.

Did Johnny Richards do "Adventures in Time?" That is pretty good.

Pete Rugolo is the one Kenton arranger who I find generally consistent throughout his catalog. But most of the other Kenton arrangers, including Johnny Richards, are not a blind buy for TTK.

[jazzbo]

Well, he's not a blind buy for me either, but I was familiar with the material in this Select from lps and liked most of it, and learned to like the remainder more on repeated listenings.

Didn't realize it is no longer in print until just now.

Yes, Richards did the compositions and arrangements (pretty sure) for Adventures in Time.

Edited October 29, 2013 by jazzbo