once and for all who is boris rose

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

so this guy recorded airchecks off the am and if you sent him a SASE he would make acetates for you? and he had an ad in teh back of downbeat for this? what is up w/ this guy. he is cool. is there a compelete discography for him. can u tell me about it

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

pm me if that makes u feel better but really wnna know

[marcello]

The original source material is on acetate disc. It resides in the incredible music archives of Boris Rose. Although Mr. Rose is known to have recorded live music off the air and to have hired others to do so, I don't believe the Roost recordings to be genuine airchecks - an actual recording of the airwaves. I think they were recorded on location. The good audio quality of the music from these late 1940s AM radio broadcasts could cause such a suspicion, but I came to my conclusion because of the other components of the, broadcasts. If these are truly airchecks, then why, does Bob Garritv in the studio sound so dull in comparison to Symphony Sid on the bandstand, or the musicians and their performance? I believe that the initial recording was made by the technicians at The Royal Roost. They are recording Sid and the music at the spot, while the studio portion was fed into their mix on a phone line or, perhaps,, from a radio. Somehow Boris Rose obtained copies from these professional location recordings, or perhaps he got the originals. They became the cornerstone of his amazing collection, a collection that would be greatly expanded over time with real airchecks, often from Birdland.

Regardless of whether I'm right or wrong, that I could form such an opinion is due to the fact that I had copies of the full broadcasts. As with some of you, I went to Boris Rose and obtained dubs cut directly to disc at his shop. This is the way this music began circulating among collectors roughly a half century ago. This is why we have live performances by this Miles Davis Orchestra, a nonet known as the Birth Of The Cool.

- PHIL SCHAAP 1998

And:

An enterprising New Yorker named Boris Rose (no relation) set up his home disc cutter next to the radio and documented scores of Parker broadcasts from Carnegie Hall, the Royal Roost, Birdland and other nightclubs in the late '40s and early '50s. He sold copies through ads in Down Beat magazine. They became a major archive.

- 1999 by Don Rose

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