Bob Altschuler has died

[Christiern]

I just heard that Bob Altschuler has passed away--haven't found an obit, yet. I knew Bob fairly well when I was doing work for Columbia and CBS/Sony, but I must be frank and say that he was not someone I wished to know outside of the business. Bob may well have had one of the largest private collections of 78 rpm jazz extant.

[Free For All]

should we be searching ebay these next few weeks?

So much for the grieving period!

[Christiern]

I suspect that he already sold the collection. Guess the obit will contain that information.

[Chuck Nessa]

Met him a couple of times - once at a NARM convention and once at a "collectors mafia" meeting at Black Rock.

My memories are of a gruff personality.

[Free For All]

My memories are of a gruff personality.

Now THAT'S sayin' some shit!

[JSngry]

[Free For All]

[JSngry]

[Free For All]

We seem to have gone a bit off-topic. My bad.

[Chuck Nessa]

Bob also gets credit as a producer of a couple of early Albert Ayler dates - "Witches and Devils" and "Goin' Home".

[JSngry]

We seem to have gone a bit off-topic. My bad.

Well, I was just fixing to say, if he was such an asshole, what difference does it make?

And then...

[JSngry]

Bob also gets credit as a producer of a couple of early Albert Ayler dates - "Witches and Devils" and "Goin' Home".

This.

So ok. R.I.P.

[Free For All]

Amen.

[Chuck Nessa]

Nothing really bad about Altschuler mentioned yet. Chris said he didn't like him and I (with less experience) said he seemed "gruff".

Unless something else surfaces we should respect his many years of work, regret the inevitable death and leave it at that.

Edited September 25, 2007 by Chuck Nessa

[JSngry]

So, no goats?

[Chuck Nessa]

Dump the goats.

[Christiern]

I may be saving certain inside knowledge for my book.

[Chuck Nessa]

So, we'll piss and moan then. Let the guy go for now.

[brownie]

Bob Altschuler was very helpful when I was writing articles a long time ago and needed to get material (and albums) that were very hard to obtain in pre-internet days.

He was working at Riverside then and could not have been nicer.

Sad to hear he is no longer with us!

[bertrand]

He donated the 78s a few years ago to the Library of Congress. He gave a talk at ARSC.

Bertrand.