The only thing I'll say about this Freeman guy is that I've seen enough enormous arrogance coming from this "Burning Ambulance" newsletter of his that I distance myself from it whenever I see it mentioned.

I can only speak for myself. So far I have not had any really bad experiences with publishing and shipping dates via Amazon Germany as compared to Amazon.com USA, even for books that I preordered.  The last such case for a preordered book was the Don Byas bio, and IIRC my copy arrived here at about the date announced, even some time before some of the U.S. Organissimo forumists had received theirs. The only potential snag these days might be that it happens increasingly often that the (paperback/softcover) books are actually print-on-demand books. So even the PRINTING occurs here in Europe. On the one hand this should speed up delivery (it actually did in several cases), on the other there might be worries about printing and binding quality (I haven't had any problems in recent times, but "one never knows, do one?"  - and I'd hate to se this happen for the first time in years with THIS book ). What worries there are may be due to the fact that this printing on demand can occur almost anywhere around here. My US-published books bought via Amazon in very recent years have been printed in Germany, the UK, Poland and France - randomly with no detectable reason of why which book is printed where. So if it is going to be print on demand this time you just don't know where it will be handled this time.  List price at amazon.de is similar to what you quote for amazon France; my guaranteed preorder price was 49 EUR plus some cents. 

I just checked the Barnes & Noble web site and it is stating the publication date in June, same as Amazon. After the book is printed there are the logistics of shipping stock to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers. Members in Europe most likely order and receive items from Amazon warehouses in France, Germany, England? Here in the U.S. many Amazon customers are on Amazon's Prime program where delivery charges are waived (FREE), and most items that I order are delivered the next day! Would appreciate knowing what members in Europe experience with their booksellers of choice? The French Amazon site lists the price as €52.43.   Jim

Interesting. Even though I don't know 2/3rds of these groups, there are some folks I'd love to see (e.g. Charles Lloyd, The Bad Plus, etc.) What do you think? Anybody know any of these other names ,you'd recommend?  https://newportjazz.org/lineup