[78-L] Gutter ball

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

David Lennick says: “I've seen lots of Boris Rose material..this looked 
nothing like any I'd seen. Interesting.”

I have been told that this is how Boris Rose got into the record 
business, dubbing collectible jazz recordings. From that, he got into 
making off-air recordings of an amazing variety of material and artists 
and issued them on LP. For much modern jazz of the late 1940s and early 
1950s, Rose’s recordings are the only documents of hundreds of live 
radio performances. Once while in the Washington, D.C. Tower Records, I 
came across a notebook binder. Opening it and paging through, I came to 
several pages that listed Boris Rose label names. Dozens upon dozens, 
and this was by no means all of them!. On his Session imprint alone, he 
issued dozens of albums of bop and modern jazz broadcasts. I was told 
by a collector who should know that a lot of this LP stock was sold 
after Rose’s death to Jazz Record Mart in Chicago. In addition to the 
records he issued, he would make custom dubs for people. Once in awhile 
these come up in auction.