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I have a friend with about thirty mosaic sets. He is offering them to me before anyone else. We are just trying to work out a fair price. Does anyone know of a guide to the value or rarity of these sets. Any help would be appreciated. I bought the Grant Green Blue Note for forty bucks the Thelonius Monk Black Lion for twenty-five. They were cds.

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Don't kid this guy!

Kuisis,

The price of new sets is generally $16, sometimes $17 per CD.

The price of OOP sets on ebay is almost always higher, sometimes very high indeed. A few sets are very much in demand (Nat King Cole, Basie, Andrew Hill) but I doubt whther your friend would ask you for fancy collector's prices.

Edited by David Ayers
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Give your friend $25/CD.

Depending on the sets, I'd go more like $21 or $22 per CD.

(Something to be said for getting a volume discount, if you're buying a whole hell of a bunch of sets -- all at one time.)

But, again, that's depending on what sets we're talking about, clearly. (And so then maybe $25 is better, guessing that there's some older sets we're talking about here.)

(I almost said $20 at first, but forgot that Mosaic bumped their prices up to $16 a year or two ago, hence my $21 or $22 statement up above.)

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It depends on whether you want to give him a fair price or if he's willing to give you a bargain. For oop sets, $10/disc would be a steal, $15/disc would be a bargain. It doesn't begin to get fair until around $20+/disc. On the open market (Ebay, for example), some of these sets command $40 or more/disc.

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I found this forum through the Klipsch website and I like the humor of the responses! I also like the information on the values.

Here are the ones he has, I am fairly new to the jazz genre and so far am liking a bunch of the hard bop(?) on blue note and some dixieland. The seller is a close friend of mine, older, who turned me on to jazz so I don't want to be unfair to him.

If any of you have suggestions about the following ones I'd appreciate it.

102 Gerry Morgan

109 Hall/Johnson/De Paris/ Dickenson

110 Sidney Bechet

120 Paul Desmond

122 Chet Baker

136 Stan Kenton

144 Buck Clayton

152 Eddie Condon

157 George Shearling

166 Curtis Fuller

168 Jack Teagarden

172 Thad Jones

175 Chico Hamilton

176 Jimmie Guiffre

185 Kenton Presents

190 Django Reinhardt

198 Gerald WIlson

200 Johnny Hodges

206 Condon Mob

221 Gerry Mulligan

I don't want to go crazy, but I think I could buy these at a rate of one or two per month. I really like the first two and have heard good things about mosaic in general.

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Some of those are still in print, so you could check the Mosaic website and make him an offer based on what you could get it for new.

Thad Jones and Curtis Fuller are on the hard bop side, if you want to get those. They both went OOP about a year and a half ago and are 3CD sets (orig price $48). They typically sell on ebay for between $70-$100.

[update] - There's a Thad Jones on ebay now that's up to $150, but I think that's an aberration.

Edited by BFrank
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The ones above 200 are still in print so it shouldn't be more than what you can get from Mosaic. The others are going to be more expensive for sure. For example the Buck Clayton has gone for around $250 so that's $40 a cd. I'd say for the Desmond, that's probably going to be in that area. It's hard to give a real good answer because the market (ebay) goes up and down. Checking ebay and their completed auctions may be helpful. BTW, do you know about the Mosaic web site. It's mosaicrecords.com

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I wanted to thank everyone who replied to my thread. I worked out a deal to buy them all. If I don't like them, but I doubt I will, I will put them up for sale here first.

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