[78-L] Gutter ball

[Julian Vein]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:

> 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.
> _______________________________________________
In the mid-70s his Alto, Ozone and Session LPs were turning up very 
cheap in the UK.

Sometimes his "live" recordings weren't that live--he was taping 
broadcasts of radio transcriptions!

       Julian Vein


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