First box-set you ever got?

[gmonahan]

My first Mosaic was the Monk Complete Blue Note box in 1985. But I can't remember what my first box set of any type was.

My first Mosaic and my first box!

That's 'cause it was THE first Mosaic and THE first Mosaic box! A treasured possession, even if Blue Note did reissue the music on a fine cd set a few years ago. Can't ever have enough Monk!

[clifford_thornton]

Either the Herbie Nichols box on BN, or the Trane Village Vanguard material. I am a twerp.

[woofy]

Not many people would admit this...The very first multi-record set I ever purchased? Kiss' re-release of their first three albums as a set around '76. I was 13 and just got a set of drums. (Those were the "Metal" years.) By the time I was 17 I was into Mile's, Sonny, and Coltrane, and anybody with a good drummer.

The first Mosaic:

The Jazz Messengers and Ike Quebec sets purchased at the same time in the early 90's.

[etherbored]

James Brown's "Startime" when it first was released. Blew my mind back then, and still does today. One of the best box sets available.

i second that! i also wonder if there's going to be renewed interest in it now...

-e-

[BruceH]

I was a kid, mid-1970's, and my Pops subscribed me to the Time-Life "Giants of Jazz" series. I still have about a dozen of the boxes.

Lucky!!

[mikelz777]

I think my first box set was Bob Dylan's "Biograph" about 20 years ago. My first jazz box set was the Crusaders' "Way Back Home" 15+ years ago . Ironically, my first Mosaic was "The Jazz Crusaders' Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings" in 2005. I didn't think I'd ever fill all the holes in the Way Back Home set. (I still need "Old Socks, New Shoes".)

Edited January 2, 2007 by mikelz777

[Hot Ptah]

My first Mosaic was the Thelonious Monk Mosaic. My first jazz box was "The Bass"--an Impulse set. I had also purchased Beethoven's nine Symphonies by Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before Mosaic came into being.

[Randy Twizzle]

I'm terrible at remembering names and labels, but it was a five LP Earl Hines box set purchased at one of those down market stores like Disc-o-mat for all of $5 in the early 80s.

[LAL]

It was a 3CD EMI compilation called "History of Jazz" which covers the blues to the modern jazz of the 1950s - quite a few of the numbers were recreations of the originals. I was fascinated by the music then, but looking at/listening to the collection now, it's much to be desired.

[Chuck Nessa]

Thesaurus of Classic Jazz (Columbia C4L 18)-- released 1959, got it for my tenth birthday in 1961.

ol' man clementine

YES! This and the other Columbia boxes of the time - Henderson, Lang/Venuti, Holiday (2) and Ellington (2) - were my introduction to the multi-disc era.

[alocispepraluger102]

alfred brendel complete piano works(mid-60's)

joseph krips-beethoven symphonies(60's)

a big box of duke ellington radio transcriptions sponsored by social security(60's)

[Tony Pusey]

Last Days of the Fillmore on vinyl, when it was released.

Firts CD box set? a tie between Jefferson Airplane and the Byrds.

Jazz came about one year later.

[B. Clugston]

My first LP box set was one of the George Harrison triple-LPs, probably The Concert for Bangladesh.

First CD box set was Ornette Coleman's Beauty is a Rare Thing.

First Mosaic: Jimmy Giuffre.

[danasgoodstuff]

Might've been 3LPs worth of Sun Records on Charly, or I may be forgettin' something! (good BN title)