[78-L] Gutter ball

[David Lennick]

> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:24:31 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] Gutter ball
> 
> 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.
> 

 

I've had a number of those custom lacquers..many of them used recycled record labels such as Temple and Sentry, where he'd type on the blank side. I could be wrong, but these didn't look like Boris's stuff.

 

On his LPs, he must have used a different label name for each issue! Distributors would know them as "Nostalgia Greats"..I may still have a numerical listing under that heading.

 

dl