Mosaic partials ...

[brednjam1]

I'm still looking for an extra copy of record 4 from the Benny Goodman mosaic box or record 1 from the Jimmy Giuffre box.  Does anybody have any extras that they would be willing to sell?  I'd also be willing to buy the entire sets if anyone has one to sell at a reasonable price.  My Benny Goodman box actually came with an extra LP 4 from the Miles Davis Live at the Unplugged Nickel Mosaic set if anyone is looking to buy/trade for that one.

[Dub Modal]

Heads up, Mosaic is selling that first disc of their Lester Young/Count Basie box set as an individual CD for $15. This is the Sony material from that OOP box. 

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-01-CD

 

[Rooster_Ties]

1 hour ago, Dub Modal said:

Heads up, Mosaic is selling that first disc of their Lester Young/Count Basie box set as an individual CD for $15. This is the Sony material from that OOP box. 

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-01-CD

How did you find that? / find out about that? If you go directly to the Mosaic site, I can’t for the life of me get it to come up under any of the categories of choices on the left-side. Not as a single, or as a box, or under any of the genre searches.

If there’s a way to know that they’re selling partials — or even just one partial — it must be like a needle in a haystack to find.

[medjuck]

Seems to be being offered as a "Mosaic Single".  I don't think they advertise "partials".

[Dub Modal]

27 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

How did you find that? / find out about that? I

I just clicked on the True Blue tab. I do this every now and then since they like to keep things hush hush on what's being offered. If I remember correctly, that Sony disc was the hardest for them to get licensing on from that set. 

[felser]

I also have Johnny Smith discs 5-6 if that is of use to anyone.

[miles65]

On 17-3-2021 at 2:48 PM, Dub Modal said:

Heads up, Mosaic is selling that first disc of their Lester Young/Count Basie box set as an individual CD for $15. This is the Sony material from that OOP box. 

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-01-CD

 

If you don't have the set and you like Lester Young get it. It might be the only way to get the complete Jones Smith inc session.

[mikeweil]

On 17.3.2021 at 2:48 PM, Dub Modal said:

Heads up, Mosaic is selling that first disc of their Lester Young/Count Basie box set as an individual CD for $15. This is the Sony material from that OOP box. 

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-01-CD

 

Duh! That would have spared me buying the box set .....

[Quasimado]

Right! I see it has the "Lady be Good" alternate!

[John L]

On 3/20/2021 at 8:50 PM, mikeweil said:

Duh! That would have spared me buying the box set .....

They really improved the sound on some of the other sessions, especially vintage 1942-1944.  There is also the newly discovered alt of Honeysuckle Rose on disc 2.  

 I am very happy that I have my box. 

[mikeweil]

25 minutes ago, John L said:

They really improved the sound on some of the other sessions, especially vintage 1942-1944.  There is also the newly discovered alt of Honeysuckle Rose on disc 2.  

 I am very happy that I have my box. 

Me too .......

[Ed S]

Saw this thread referenced elsewhere on the board and thought I'd resurrect it.

I have two sets that I got directly from Mosaic years ago that came with booklets, but in plain boxes.  So, I am looking for the actual outer boxes that came with the sets. 

1.  Shorty Rogers

2.  Herbie Nichols

I check eBay and Discogs every once in a while.  I recently snagged a George Lewis outer box on Discogs, which knocked that one off my list.  Still looking for the other two.

Edited 16 hours ago by Ed S

[Big Beat Steve]

On 9/19/2020 at 9:23 PM, jazzbo said:

I keep my boxes and booklets and cds in three separate places. If something were to happen to me right now, my wife would probably be inclined to toss some and not re-integrate all the parts. . . . I can see how this happens.

Looking at this thread now that it has been "resurrected", and following the question by Pim "how come there are so many incomplete sets out there", and the above reply by Jazzbo, I figure there are other reasons, but the above one by Jazzbo definitely is true. As mentioned in other threads, I obtained a lot of jazz books from the estate of a deceased jazz collector some time ago, and recently was able to make a first pick from his LPs and CDs. And there sat a box and large booklet of the Count Basie live Roulette set and the Stan Kenton Capitol set, but no discs at all. The heirs who had spent almost endless hours restoring 200 CDs (stuck in a CD jukebox in their father's music room) to their jewel cases so far have been unable to locate the CDs to the above sets. Sifting through the CD part of that collection I did not find anything either. So if I can eventually manage to get this Basie live Roulette box I might even be tempted to shell out for the CDs alone if the price is right. 
On the same shelves there also sat the box for the 1954/55 German Jazz Festival box set on Bear Family, and I was able to locate the CDs in the drawers holding all the CDs. So this one is now a spare copy at my home. But the booklet is missing, so I will have to complete it with a photocopy from my own copy of that set that I've owned since it was released. 
All this just to show parts of such box sets can indeed disappear in almost any way. and the problem is not limited to Mosaics. And it takes dedicated family members to restore any order among things that only the late owner knew how and where he had filed them.  (Yes, that experience taught me a lesson too  )