[78-L] Boris Rose

[David Lennick]

Boris would cut a lacquer of anything for anyone. There must be thousands of 
his dubs floating around..I have an entire Duke Ellington concert that hasn't 
been issued complete although he put out parts of it on LP, and the lacquers 
are definitely from him (identifiable by the typed labels). Many years ago on 
an early trip to New York, I asked Meltzer at Merit Music if he had the Rudolph 
Valentino record. "Come back tomorrow" he said, and the next day I was given a 
ten-inch 33RPM lacquer of it in return for my ten bucks. After years of 
experience with these things I recognized it as one of Boris's dubs (good 
transfer, too).

Many of his discs used the blank sides of pre-printed labels such as Temple and 
Sentry.

dl

On 10/25/2010 6:27 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
> RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Years back - during a rare trip to a London Record Fair - I purchased a collection of around one hundred acetates, of various diameters and speeds, all it seems recorded off air by Boris Rose (New York ?).   There were several by a spirited young Ralph Sutton on piano.
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>> It's difficult to trace much about Boris.   The elderly collector from whom I purchased the acetates had, presumably, obtained them direct from Boris - probably in New York.
>>
>> I gather Boris has died.   What else do we know please,
>>
>> RB
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> I'm sure I've read an article about him in recent years, can't recall
> where. Storyville, perhaps?
>
>        Julian Vein