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Boris Rose

Amateur engineer and radio recording enthusiast (1918-2000). Rose was responsible for a host of bootleg labels releasing radio broadcasts of jazz groups. Labels he created include these 65 labels: Alto Records (Various jazz artists) Ambrosia (Lester Young) Aspen (3) (Billie Holiday) Bamboo Industries Records (Bunny Berigan) Beppo (Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery) Big Chief-Jerollomo (one-off for Fletcher Henderson, Bill Harris, Sidney Bechet) Big Molly (Charlie Ventura) Bombasi (Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano) Bonsard (Duke Ellington) Caliban (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Leslie Caron, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Betty Grable, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Betty Hutton, Fred MacMurray, Gordon MacRae, Donald O´Connor, Andy Russell, Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Jimmy Durante, Gloria De Haven, June Allyson, Paul Whiteman, Diamond Horseshoe, Eddie Cantor, Mae West, Mitzi Gaynor, Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Marion Davies, Marlene Dietrich, Pola Negri) Carib (2) (Benny Goodman) Chakra (3) (Miles Davis) Chazzer (George Auld, Red Rodney, Art Tatum, Thelonius Monk, Flip Philips, Bill Harris, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Chet Baker, Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer) Country Loon (Gene Autry) Crazed Olaf Records (Charlie Parker) Donna Discs (Benny Goodman) Drum Boogie Disc (Gene Krupa) Elysium (2) (Charlie Parker) Enigma (5) (Coleman Hawkins) Forsgate Products (Bunny Berigan) Fran Staterna (Charlie Christian, Wardel Gray) Ginzo Disc (Woody Herman) Girth Records (3) (Paul Whiteman) Invincible (3) (Charlie Parker) J For Jazz (John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Phil Woods a.o.) Jung Cat Records (Charlie Parker, Various jazz artists) Axtor Disque (Charlie Parker, Bud Powell) King Of Swing Records (Benny Goodman) La Mere D'Oiseau Disques (Charlie Parker) Main-Man (Charlie Parker) Meexa Discox (Charlie Parker) [1] Memories-Lightest (Miss Lee Wiley) Mickoon's Menagerie (Fats Waller / Jimmie Noone) MK Records (9) (Max Kaminsky) Montage (7) (Richie Kamuca, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Rushing) Mopaque (Chubby Jackson) New Country Loon (Gene Autry) Obligato (Judy Garland) Okidoke Records (Charlie Parker) Ozone (4) (Various jazz artists) Parktec (Charlie Parker) Parade Of Hits (2) (Bunny Berigan) Pianola (2) (Hank Duncan) Peace-Maker Discs (Gene Autry) Pelekum Records (Erskine Hawkins, Count Basie) Prairie Justice (Gene Autry) Quakiduk Leninmax (Al Jolson) Radiex (3) (Abbot & Costello And Amos & Andy) Richelieu (Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano) Royal Klompfott (Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge) Sabie (Count Basie) [2] Session Disc (Various jazz artists) Skata (Duke Ellington) Sneaker Records (2) (Fats Navarro, Anita O'Day, Tadd Dameron) Sirob Esor Haaki Riccoon Limited (Celestin & Picou) Soted (Sophie Tucker & Ted Lewis) Stycon (Red Allen, 'Hot Lips' Page, Cecil Scott) Sunburst (7) (Duke Ellington) Talcrip! (Fats Navarro, Anita O'Day & Tadd Dameron) Tetco (The Duke Ellington Octet, 1968) Titania (Doris Day, June Haver, Dan Dailey, Getty Grable, Dennis Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Irene Dunne, Esther Williams, Alice Faye, Deanna Durbin, Lucille Ball, Jane Russell) also this label needs cleanup from releases that do not belong on it. Trans-Ark Records (Charlie Parker) Warcloud Records (Jack Teagarden) Yadeon (Miles Davis) YERI - BEAN (Benny Goodman) Some may actually be copycat labels. The following is a list of known copycat labels, mainly european. Alamac

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