A Day at the Town Dump, Redux

Just to close the loop on yesterday’s post. Yes, indeed, I went back to the town dump to see if there were any more treasures to be found and to see if there was anything I had inadvertently left behind. There was nothing new there, but I did wind up taking a few more CDs, not just for myself but for a few friends as well.  I’m in a band up here with three other musicians and we had practice so I brought some CDs and told them they could take whatever they wanted. Some of the CDs, it turned out, were just the cases, but most of them had CDs, including all of the boxed sets. So, now that I’m settled in and had a chance to go through my score, here is the final tally:

There were 11 Mosaic boxed sets. All were left at the dump, most are in mint condition with the CDs, booklets, everything. A few have some minor damage on the boxes. They are, in no particular order other than this is how they are piled up in my room:

The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions
The Complete Black Lion and Vogue Recordings of Thelonious Monk
The Complete Atlantic and EMI Recordings of Shorty Rogers
The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings of The Chico Hamilton Quintet
The Complete February 1957 Jimmy Smith Blue Note Sessions
The Complete Columbia J.J. Johnson Small Group Sessions
The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Art Blakey’s 1960 Jazz Messengers
The Complete Recordings of the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall
The Complete Capitol and Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre
Oliver Nelson: The Argo, Verve and Impulse Big Band Studio Sessions
The Complete Arto/Mercury/Art Farmer/Benny Golson/Jazztet Sessions

There were also four boxed sets from the Mosaic Select Series:

The Mosaic Select Art Pepper
Mosaic Select Paul Chambers
Mosaic Select Andrew Hill
Mosaic Select McCoy Tyner

There were also these various boxed sets:

Bill Evans: The Complete Riverside Recordings
Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 on Columbia
The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
Ella Fitzgerald, Twelve Nights in Hollywood
Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings, 1944-1948
Keith Jarrett: The Impulse Years, 1973-1974
Dave Brubeck,  Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective

In addition to these, I kept about 75 individual CDs, which I haven’t really gone through yet. I don’t think there’s anything collectible in there, but there’s certainly good music. I’m very excited about the boxed sets because of the packaging and all that goes with it. No to mention that they were FREE! Not sure what I’m going to do with the other CDs yet, but it certainly made sense to me to take them rather than just leave them there.  I can go through them at my leisure, assuming I will have leisure when my current workload starts to level off.