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JSngry post about the Birka jazz archive led me to their shop. On the CD Box set page are a few Mosaics: Bunny Berigan 7 CD's at €116/SEK 1100 Tadd Jones 3 CD's at €84/SEK 800 Freddie Redd 2 CD € 79/SEK 750 I picked up the Stuff Smith

Jimmie Lunceford disc two. Imo Duke had better compositions en more interesting soloists but what a band :tup That saxophone section is like a Swiss clockwork.

It's also on Intergrale vol. 19

I've been ordering from Worldsrecords for years and never had trouble with them. Don't know about postage inside USA. My orders go transatlantic.

Are you just talking of the current JSP or does that mean that JSP has, between all their boxes, now released all but the listed items from the whole Frémeaux sets? I never followed JSP's Django activities as I had laid eyes on the Frémeaux long before the three boxes appeared (and jumped at that chance quickly last year, although I haven't yet listened to much of it). going through my files the following are also missing: Germaine Sablon Ici l'on peche (alt take) aug 1934 Tiger rag/After you've gone/Confessin' (non professional studio recording) Freddy Taylor previously unissued Swanee river (The also previously unissued How come you do me like you do is one of the late finds). Alix Combelle previously unissued What a diffrence a day made/The sheik of araby Jean Sablon Cette Chanson et pour vous madame (alt take) Bill Coleman Baby won't you please come home (alt take) Larry Adler Lover come back to me & I got rhythm (alt takes) I think the conclusion is: if Ted Kendall didn't have the 78 it is not included. This covers al 7 JSP boxes.

Jimmie Lunceford disc 1. Great music and sound. Hope this sets sells well enough to make a Victor/Columbia set possible.

Fremeaux has a number of recordings without Django to proof he isn't on them. There are a number of pre war airchecks that are not on the JSP radiorecordings set. There are a number of late finds on vol. 20 that are not on JSP like the 2 previously unissued takes of 'Chinatown, my Chinatown'. And there are 15 recordings by family and pals to fill out the last CD.

L' integrale by Fremeaux consists of 20 2-CD set's. To the best of my knowledge 40 CD's is about it. Missing are two tracks from 1928 by Chaumel (Sur le place de l'opera' and 'E viva la Carmencita')and one with singer Leon Monoson ('Rest toujours toi meme' aka 'Stay as sweet as you are') and two unissued tracks from a Freddy Taylor session ('Mama don't alowe' and 'Blue drag') on wich the presence of Django is not certain. No it's all there.

So far I didn't pay the J.J Johnson single much attention and did not realise that it was a big band session. But I like his writing for the Dizzy Gillespie's Perception. And I just love 1960's bigbands. To make a long story short I caved.

The J.J. Johnson single is on last chance now.

Last week I got a mail Mosaic Jazz Gazette. That is a real Mosaic newsletter. Don't think it's the same.

Count Basie set is gone now.

Bozy White's book on Bunny is still anounced for this year at the Norbert Ruecker jazz books site as it was last year. Searching the net I found this from 2009: From the Minutes of the 2009 Annual Membership Meeting (IAJRC) Perry Huntoon delivered an update on the status of the Bozy White book on Bunny Berigan. He stated that the progress moved in inches since the last report. The team was able to contact the heiress to Bozy's estate but that developed a snag as no clearance was given, vocal or otherwise with the book. The team was hesitant to go ahead without such rights. Ed Polic, from California, made contact, finally, and through e-mail, she did suggest that there was no interest in the book and would sign a release form. This was fabricated and sent to her. Nothing has been heard from her for several months. There is an urge, on the part of those involved, to go forward, with or without the release. This is being pursued, so no time is lost. The manuscript is in a publisher's hand in the Toronto area and has consented to produce it. The last remaining detail is to assemble the photographic section for the book, and complete the final index. If there is a green light, it may be three months before going to press. Michael Zirpolo, according to Andy Simons, has culled, extensively, the discographical material from the volume and put together a dissertation. This may be serialized in the Journal next year. There has been a three- year delay to recognize this work. Read more: http://periodicals.faqs.org/201003/1963063171.html#ixzz1jqJYgFYI Michael Zirpolo published his Mr. Trumpet:The Trials, Tribulations and Triumph of Bunny Berigan in 2011. Perry Huntoon is on Facebook but no info on Bunny there.

Duke Ellington 1932-1940 disc I

Get it while you can. The Bix sides are available elswere off course but the Trumbauer (sans Bix) and the Teagarden sides are not.

This is exciting news. That means an extra CD to an already very promissing set. :) Scott didn't say anything about an extra CD and the website still lists 8 CDs, not 9. Maybe there was room on the 8 discs that were already planned. I might have been carried away by my enthousiasm. I looked to track listing again there is room for extra tracks especialy on discs 2,3, 4 and 7.

This will tie you over till Hawkins arrives. In Hawkins' interview by Paul Bacon and Bill Grauer for the Riverside record 'Coleman Hawkins a documentary' as printed in vol. 1 of the Jean-Francois Villetard Hawkins disco he says about Chu: Q: Who do you think at this time was a really good man on that? Hmmm... Chu. Chu was about the best. Yes Chu Berry was the best man around.

This is exciting news. That means an extra CD to an already very promissing set. :)

Treated myself to: Jimmie Lunceford big box, Charles Tolliver big band select, Ruby Braff and George Wein singles. Next on the waiting list Coleman Hawkins and the MJQ. Later this year: Joe Pass and the Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald sets.

Would you mind, if it's not to much trouble, posting a track or session list for this set? I would be very greatfull to know especially about the September 12, 1955 session wich has never been on CD in total and the November 8, 1955 session. This is not really a big band session but it is not included in the Mosaic Dizzy Gillespie small group box set nor on one of the CD's devoted to the All Star sessions. This one has Harry "Sweets" Edison, Melba Lison and Willie Smith. I know the two tracks wih Tony Harper are on Fresh Sound.

Lang & Venuti disc 3 after 1 and 2 earlier today.

Miles Davis & Gil Evans disc 1. On my new Denon amplifier.

I'm single but still felt the need for a music room.

Release date now: late January/February 2012.

Chu Berry Disc 7