[78-L] Ellington (was: Gnt(C) 4648...?)

[Jeff Sultanof]

Valburn's collection is at the Library of Congress.

Apparently he did not have such a stellar reputation as a collector. I've
been reading posts on another website that have used some harsh words about
him (I am deliberately not going into details). He had some great reissues,
and his work on the Duke Ellington Treasury Broadcast series was wonderful.
I was a subscriber when they were on LP.

Mike, what were your dealings like with him?

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>  On 8/11/2010 2:03 AM, David Palmquist wrote:
> > My goal is more modest.  I just want to do this with images of the
> > labels of Ellington 78 recordings... and display them on my webpage.
>
> Of course the premier collector of Ellington was Jerry Valburn.  Back in
> the 70s when Jerry realized that I was able to take excellent 35mm color
> slides of record labels for my ARSC presentations, he asked me to come
> over to his place and take pictures of his rarest and most unusual
> Ellington records for him.  I probably shot a couple of rolls, 50 or 60
> labels.  He kept the rolls -- undeveloped, but they came out just fine.
> They are probably with his collection, which I think it at the Smithsonian.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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