[78-L] Boris Rose

[RUSSELL BARNES]

Thank you to those who contributed to my Boris Rose question.  It’s turning out be an interesting yet most curious voyage.  
 
Some information arrived from an unexpected source – right here in my own backyard here in Dorset, UK.
 
I spoke to an eighty year old American, who lives here in an English country cottage along with his jazz records and his memories of the New York jazz scene in 1947.    His name is Don Kniess.
 
Don, it emerged, was a teenage student who was acquainted with Boris Rose and on a couple of occasions visited his Brooklyn apartment.   Boris, it seems had a small room set aside in which he stored his rare Jazz 78’s from which he would cut acetates to order, or record jazz programmes ‘off air’ from the radio.
 
Don, plus other like minded, would congregate in a record ‘shop’ in 47th Avenue (apparently not too far from Time Square) known as ‘The Jazz Record Centre’.
 
He recalled the place had a short flight of steps, on the face of which the bold words, ‘From Bunk to Monk’.    From there they would drift to Jimmy Ryan’s to hear some of the great names in Jazz.  It all sounds great !!.
 
Russ Barnes