J.A.W.

Since I consider the earlier Mosaic Giuffre box, the complete Capitol/Atlantic, to be a gem, I must agree. I suggested a Complete Verve Jimmy Giuffre Sessions box (and also a Complete Verve Lee Konitz Sessions box) to Mosaic a couple of years ago and they said they were interested - but that was all.

I'm still looking for these Masters of Jazz CDs: Duke Ellington, Vol.8 Billie Holiday, Vol.5 Billie Holiday, Vol.7 Billie Holiday, Vol.11

I don't think promoting bootlegs is allowed here.

Can you say whether we'll like them? Some will, some won't...

The Mosaic site (if that's what you mean) was last updated in May. Here's the "Future projects"page. They're planning new sets (not listed yet), but that's all I can say.

And I now have it on very good authority that Hodges was born in 1907--so this year is his centenary. Thanks for the info!

Yep, as does the new edition. Do you know if the new edition is just a reprint or an updated/enlarged version? According to Amazon the 2007 edition does have more pages.

Hadn't checked the AMG one yet--thanks much, J.A.W. I may e-mail our old MIA friend Mike Fitzgerald and see what he recommends re: making a final determination. You're welcome. Please post Mike's reply, I'd like to know as well.

AMG (yep, it's unreliable), Wikipedia (probably even more unreliable) and downbeat also say 1907.

Yep, as does the new edition. Grove (and yes, I know it's unreliable) says 1907. I edited my post before I saw your second post - all my other reference books and records guides etc. say 1907.

Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler's 1999 Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz gives 7/25/1906 as his birthday, but that's the only one. All my other reference books and record guides say 7/25/07.

I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but so far three of those orders were cancelled by the seller because the item was not available. Weird... I ordered a non-jazz CD from them that was supposed to come out on June 5, and I got the same message. They refunded my pre-payment immediately, so there's no problem there, but still...

The following CDs are scheduled for release. * = cardboard mini-LP sleeve On July 18, 2007 EICP 816 Pastorius,Jaco(b)/Essentiala(2 CD) 3780 On July 20, 2007 PCD 17139 Lewis,Webster(org)/In Norway The Club 7 Live Tapes(2 CD) 3675 On July 25, 2007 VICJ 61448 Miller,Marcus(b)/Free 2520 VICJ 61449 Bell,Poogie(ds)/Get on the Kit 2520 VICJ 61450 Milman,Sophie(vo)/Sophie Milman 2520 BVCK 17012 V.A./Heirs to Jobim:A Tribute Anotonio Carios Jobim 1995 BVCJ 38143 V.A./Sing! RCA(2 CD) 2100 KICJ 521 Biondi,Mario(vo)/Handful of Soul 2600 KICP 3112 Alpert,Herb(tp)/Rise* 2200 ABCJ 420 Basie,Count(p)/At the Savoy Ballroom 2500 ABCJ 421 Ellington,Duke(p)/At Carnegie Hall 2500 ABCJ 422 Reinhardt,Django(g)/Memorial: Vol.2 2500 ABCJ 423 Joplin,Scott(composer)/Entertainer Featuring His Greatest Hit 2500 On August 3, 2007 PCD 23928 Kynard,Charles(org)/Woga 2415 PCD 23929 Williams,Charles(as)/Trees and Grass and Things 2415 PCD 23930 Mitchell,Blue(tp)/Graffiti Blues 2415 PCD 23931 Jeffrey,Paul(ts)/Paul Jeffrey 2415 PCD 23932 White,John(g)/John White 2415 On August 8, 2007 KICJ 522 Hauser,Tim(vo)/Love Stories 3000 On August 22, 2007 SICP 10050(Hybrid) Watanabe,Sadao(as)/Live at Pit Inn* 2730 SICP 10051(Hybrid) Kasai,Kimiko(vo)/Tokyo Special* 2730 SICP 10052(Hybrid) Players/Galaxy* 2730 SICP 10053(Hybrid) Sato,Masahiko(p)/Double Exposure Complete* 2730 SICP 10054(Hybrid) Ito,Kimiko(vo)/Touch of Love* 2730 VICJ 61461 Torme,Mel(vo)/At the Crescend* 2520 VICJ 61462 Connor,Chris(vo)/This Is Chris* 2520 VICJ 61463 Connor,Chris(vo)/Chris* 2520 VICJ 61464 Dorough,Bob(vo)/Devil May Care +1* 2520 VICJ 61465 Morel,Terry(vo)/Songs of a Woman in Love* 2520 VICJ 61466 Carr,Helen(vo)/Why Do I Love You* 2520 VICJ 61467 Moore,Marilyn(vo)/Moody* 2520 VICJ 61468 Morris,Audrey(vo)/Voice Of* 2520 VICJ 61469 Roche,Betty(vo)/ Take the A Train* 2520 VICJ 61470 Moran,Pat(p)/While at Birdland* 2520 VICJ 61511 James,Bob(key)/One* 2100 VICJ 61512 James,Bob(key)/Two* 2100 VICJ 61513 James,Bob(key)/Heads +1* 2100 VICJ 61514 James,Bob(key)/Touchdown+1* 2100 VICJ 61515 James,Bob(key)/Lucky Seven +1* 2100 VICJ 61516 James,Bob(key)/H+1* 2100 VICJ 61517 James,Bob(key)/Foxie +1* 2100 VICJ 61518 James,Bob(key) & Earl Klugh(g)/One on One +1* 2100 VICJ 61519 Tee,Richard(key)/Strokin'* 2100 VICJ 61520 Tee,Richard(key)/Natural Ingriedients* 2100 TKCW 32186 Flanagan,Tommy(p)/Confirmation* 2400 TKCW 32187 Mangelsdorff,Albert(tb) & Sato,Masahiko(p)/Spontaneous* 2400 TKCW 32188 Mingus,Charlie(b)/Mingus in Europe Vol.2* 2400 TKCW 32189 Farmer,Art(tp)/In Concert* 2400 TKCW 32190 Taylor,Cecil(p)/Air above Mountains* 2400 TKCV 35406 Peplowski,Ken(ts,cl)/When You Wish Upon a Star(2 CD) 3000 TKCV 35407 Mabern,Harold(p)/Misty 2800

sorry, my bad english, I should have written dogmatically selective, or something like that. Anyhoo, I think a case can be made to display Phil as a Sheep in some Monty Python like animated satire with him having lo-o-o-ong mo-o-n-o-o-logues that sound like sheep's blating. Of course his name would have inspired such a sketch, but the world would be much less funny if such twisty-turny-translational cheap shots would be left out of the arena. When it comes to humor, we clearly have different perspectives. I suggest we leave it at that.

Being categorical about fun is silly too, in my view. Satire surely has the right to include a person's name in it's game. Yep, but there's no satire here. And I'm not being categorical about fun in general (I didn't say I was, please read carefully and don't put words into mouth!), on the contrary, just about making fun about someone's name.

My post was not directed at you personally, Al. It's just that I don't understand why people can't be more careful with someone's name, that's all. It's not their fault they've got the name they have, if you get my drift, and making fun of it is just silly in my view.

are you sure? I am. Seriously.

Phil Schnapps? Guy That's an old joke. Schnapps is German, not Dutch, by the way. I've never understood why making fun of someone's name is funny...

Love him or hate him, but why are so many people calling him "Schapp"? His name is Schaap (= Dutch for sheep, by the way; it's a Dutch name). I'm still looking for a satisfactory CD version of the 1938 concert. I hate noise reduction (to my ears it does affect the music), but the sound on Schaap's version is headache-inducing...

Well, yeah. But he fits the other, non-literal meaning of "avant-garde". Guy Literally speaking, music is only avant-garde historically if it eventually becomes garde. So bebop was avant-garde but late Coltrane and Ayler were not. Right? Some turned left, some right.

The music is good, but the sound isn't - Criss' alto does sound very shrill indeed, worse than usual. But these recordings were not very good in the first place...

I don't have one for sale, but there's one on the Amazon Marketplace for $42. Or the regular Amazon price is $49 with free shipping. Not a bad price for a good box set either way. The Freelance Years on Amazon.com

Hans, the Feb 67 session is not soft jazz. I said it sounds like soft jazz to me. It still does.

Most labels are stoopid, and yet we find them useful nonetheless. Guy Quite.

He's posting frequently in the jazz section on a blues forum.