Mosaic Discographies

Ever since 1983, Mosaic Records has released some of the world’s finest reissue collections. The print run is always limited and, unfortunately, the discographical information usually disappears once a set has gone out-of-print. Fans looking for information in regard to what was included in this set or that have to hunt around the Internet, consult posts on various different jazz and music forums, puzzle together information from various sources and hope that what they found is correct. To alleviate this problem, I’ve added this single page to my site on which I will offer for download the discographies I have collected. The downloads are *.pdf files (get: Adobe Acrobat Reader) which you can save to your computer’s drive. I hope this page will, when completed, be of service to the many fans of Mosaic’s wonderful reissue program. If you want to know more about Mosaic Records, visit their website, check out “The Mosaic Records Story” and don’t forget to read the interview conducted with Mosaic Records Producer Scott Wenzel over on “Bop and Beyond” in 2008 (interview: part 01 | part 02) and “All That Jazz: Keeping the Music Alive“, a Pennsylvania Gazette 2004 profile of Michael Cuscuna. Also, do not forget to support Mosaic Records by purchasing any of the available releases via their website. If you like, you can also order a free brochure there.

Important note (please read): I cannot guarantee the accuracy of all the information provided here but hope that as this page gets fleshed-out, people will contribute to what’s available. This is how I will go about adding your contributions: You can leave a comment re any changes or additional info you have (use this site’s “contact” form), I will fix the download file and add your name to the list of contributors at the foot of the page. I have used “Calibri” as the basic font for these documents. If anything looks funky on your machine, let me know as well, please.

Covers/Images: Covers or any other images are NOT included. This page is NOT for Internet pirates looking to finalize their illegal copies!

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A note on formatting

Most of the following discographies were saved from around the Internet in the format Mosaic originally provided them in. Only minor changes in layout were applied. These files are marked [O] for “original” below. A few files were obtained through secondary sources, usually from people who attempted to “reconstruct” what is on a set. These are marked [S] for “secondary source” below and usually do not look anything like what Mosaic originally published. These are offered here to “fill the holes” and I hope to be able to replace them with the original files from Mosaic at some point. I’m going to be putting the [O] files I have myself on here first and will then try to fill the (many) gaps with what I received from others and/or what else I can find.

LP and/or CD:

I downloaded various versions of these discographies, sometimes with a “Buy Now” byline offering CDs, sometimes with one offering LPs, and at other times with one offering both versions. To indicate which one I saved and uploaded here, I’ve added (LP), (CD) or (LP & CD) in brackets at the end of the link. If no abbreviation is given, I used a downloaded file that did not indicate which version was being sold. Not that it matters, because the discographies are the same anyway.

Text from mosaicrecords.com announcing this set:

Sometimes I also downloaded the text which Mosaic used on their website to announce the set. If available, I added this text to the download file before the discography.

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Mosaic Box Sets (Out of Print)

To save the *.pdf files of the discographies you would like to have to your hard disk, right-click and choose ‘Save (Link) As’. The box sets which are still available for purchase have a link to the respective Mosaic website page instead of a *.pdf link.

Mosaic Select (Out of Print)

To save the *.pdf files of the discographies you would like to have to your hard disk, right-click and choose ‘Save (Link) As’. The box sets which are still available for purchase have a link to the respective Mosaic website page instead of a *.pdf link.

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List of contributors (as of December 21st, 2009)

Flurin Casura,Volkher Hofmann

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Special thanks

Flurin Casura for zipping up each and every bit he had amassed himself and sending it my way a few minutes after he had received my call for help. As it tuns out, I had 98% of what Flurin had, but it was still invaluable for cross-referencing and adding some recreated discographies from sets with lower numbers that I was missing.

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Copyright: All the information provided in the download files is (c) Mosaic Records. This page is published by permission from Mosaic Records, dated July 22nd, 2009.