[Dixielandjazz] Hey, Haesler!

[Bill Haesler]

M J (Mike) Logsdon asked:
> Whadaya think of Mosaic's Artie Shaw set?  I've only listened to part of the first disc, but I'm (surprisingly) impressed!

Dear Mike,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you.
A lightning surge got in the way.
I am now back to normal.
The new Artie Shaw set is, as always with Mosaic, excellent.
Although, like you, I have not yet played all 7 CDs.
Being a tidy completist, I was hoping to eliminate a few CD Artie Shaw cross-duplications in my collection.
Not an easy task, as it turned out.
The 1936-37 sessions for Brunswick are all on Hep CDs and the 1937 Thesaurus transcriptions have been collected neatly on both LP and CD.
I had originally expected the 1938-45 Victor/Bluebirds material to be complete on the Mosaic set, but discovered (just prior to ordering it) that they had elected not to reissue the Helen Forrest vocal sides.
Fortunately, all (except 2 songs) have been reissued on Jasmine CDs, which I have.
Also missing on the Mosaic 'Victor/BBs' are 2 Martha Tilton tracks, one by Jack Pearle, 8 by Anita Boyer, one by Bonnie Lake, 2 by Paula Kelly and 2 by Georgia Gibbs.
As for the 'complete commercially released' Gramercy 5, you need the 5CD set on Jasmine. 
The Artie Shaw records from 1945 to 1954 (Musicraft, Decca) have been reissued on French Classics CDs.
If you can get then now. But these are not for me.
The 'last recordings' from 1954 (Clef) are on Music Masters CDs.
No one appears to have reissued on CD "Interlude in B Flat" by Arthur Shaw's Swing String Ensemble: 
Artie Shaw (cl) Carl Kress (g) Harry Bluestone, Emanuel "Manny" Green (vln) Isadore Zir (viola) Rudy Sims (cello) unknown (sb), Art Stein (d) broadcast from the 24 May 1936 Concert at the Imperial Theatre, New York City. (Although an mp3 exists from one of the long-deleted LPs.)
Well, you did ask.
8>)
Very kind regards,
Bill.