VIDEO: Boris Rose interviewed by Dan Morgenstern

[JSngry]

http://vimeo.com/17162407

[bichos]

thanks, even see his face for the first time! boris rose, thanks for all the great music you have saved.

keep boppin´

marcel

[bichos]

but i think that this is not from a german tv program. the subtitles are danish (?).

keep boppin´

marcel

[Christiern]

The subtitles are in Swedish.

[AllenLowe]

depends how you look at it

Edited December 5, 2010 by AllenLowe

[Indestructible!]

Has anyone here seen the "Birdland Book"? Has it been donated to the Institute of Jazz Studies?

That collection in his basement needs to go to a place where it will be properly archived and disseminated (good article here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704354704575651483072044218.html#articleTabs%3Darticle)

Edited December 6, 2010 by Indestructible!

[Denis]

Thank you for this link. Very informative.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS THE COOLEST THING IVE EVER SEEN ON THE INTERNET. BORIS IS VERY WELL SPOKEN, I LIKE THE WAY HE SPEAKS. AND THE BIRDLAND BOOK! NEVER HEARD OF ABOUT THAT BEFORE! OMFG! IT IS THE GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION OF BORIS. I WONDER IF DAN MORGENSTERN CAN HELP US GET A COPY. IM SURE BORIS'S 70S LPS ONLY REPRESENT A SMALL SMALL FRACTION OF WHAT HE RECORDED! OMG ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bichos]

here is a look into the archive: oh, my godness.....

keep boppin´

marcel

[medjuck]

Is anybody trying to preserve this? It's scary to think of all the things that could happen to those tapes in a basement.

[brownie]

If this was a perfect world, an organization like UNESCO and its world heritage program would take care of it!

[Hardbopjazz]

If this was a perfect world, an organization like UNESCO and its world heritage program would take care of it!

A friend and myself have contacted the Thelonius Monk Institute and they will try to contact Rose' daughter to see what it will take to aquire the collection. If the Thelonius Monk Institute is able to get a hold of this, I don't know what that will do. I bet the collection will sit somewhere do to legal reasons. But at least my friend was told, they will make an effort to obtain the collection.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

that is good news i suppose. needs to be in a safe place, and accessable. maybe streaming-only, to allow access but not hurt legal.....like the bill graham page has....

[brownie]

If this was a perfect world, an organization like UNESCO and its world heritage program would take care of it!

A friend and myself have contacted the Thelonius Monk Institute and they will try to contact Rose' daughter to see what it will take to aquire the collection. If the Thelonius Monk Institute is able to get a hold of this, I don't know what that will do. I bet the collection will sit somewhere do to legal reasons. But at least my friend was told, they will make an effort to obtain the collection.

Let's hope this works out and that somehow we will be able to access the collection!

[Quasimado]

Seems the video has been taken down... too bad.

Q

[bichos]

good news, hardbopjazz, please informe us here if you know more!

keep boppin´

marcel

[Hardbopjazz]

Update

The asking price is 7 figures. Insane. No one will shell out this kind of money.

From an email I received.

Dan Morganstein is the director at the Rutgers Institute For Jazz Studies and a information source in the Wall Street Journal story. Rutgers knows about the Boris Rose Archive and really should be the ones doing somthing about it. I think that they want big money, (7 digits) for this collection that nobody has or is willing to pay. Then on top of that you have the restoriation cost. This is a big project

Edited March 5, 2012 by Hardbopjazz

[Hardbopjazz]

More on this collection. Resonance Records is now working on acquiring some of the Boris Rose collection. Resonance Records is the label that release the new Wes Montgomery record. With thousands of tapes I wonder how or what would be considered for a project?

[Pete C]

If the Thelonius Monk Institute is able to get a hold of this, I don't know what that will do. I bet the collection will sit somewhere do to legal reasons. But at least my friend was told, they will make an effort to obtain the collection.

I don't think any potential rights issues would stand in the way of preservation & digital transfer.