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Anyone seen this before? A collection of jazz recordings from David Niven donated to a school. I haven't downloaded any of this. Not sure if they are private tapes or commercial issue music. Who was David Niven? No, he isn't the actor from the golden age of Hollywood.  

https://archive.org/details/davidwnivenjazz?&sort=-downloads&page=2

 

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Given the limited information it's hard to judge whether all of it or just most of it is commercially issued... Strange idea to digitize that collection! Then again, those massive private cassette collection were a big thing in their time (as is currently discussed elsewhere here)

 

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"The main reason for doing this rather major project was to put my collection into some kind of compendium form that would attract my children to the music that had been of such significance in my life. "

Unfortunately there are speed problems on these tapes. I sampled the (a?) Sinatra collection and 'New York, New York' was in Db. 

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