List of record collectors
DJ, Andy Kershaw's record collection reportedly weighed seven tons at one point.
This is an incomplete list of notable record collectors.
- Ray Avery, whose 63,000+ piece jazz record collection now resides with the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
- DJ Daniele Baldelli owns approximately 65,000 records, according to a 2015 Pitchfork article.
- Joe Bussard, owner of over 25,000 1920s and 1930s American blues, gospel, folk etc. records.
- British club DJ Carl Cox has a collection of 150,000 items.
- Ian Dewhirst (Mastercuts) claimed in DJ Magazine 106 to have 38,000 pieces.
- Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow, known for the album Endtroducing..... which was comprised entirely from samples. Owns over 60,000 records.[2]
- Hip Hop artist Dr. Dre sold his 80,000 piece collection.[3]
- Dave Freeman, collector of early country and rural string band records from the 1920s and 1930s, who compiled Echoes of the Ozarks, Mountain Songs, and other compilation albums on his County Records label.
- Bob George, a United States collector, was reported as having an estimated three million vinyl records in his collection, according to Record Collector 365 (August 2009). In 2014 Monte Reel of the New York Times reported that he converted his collection into the ARChive of Contemporary Music and entered into a partnership with Columbia University; the organization having a board consisting of recording artists and others from the performing arts.[4]
- Bob Harris (radio), BBC Radio 2 Presenter.
- Grandmaster Flash told www.hiphopdx.com that he had to build a house for his record collection next to his existing house.
- The collection of Andy Kershaw, former BBC Radio 1 DJ, weighed seven tons at one point.[5]
- Paul Mawhinney, founder of music store and record archive Record-Rama, was known for probably having the world's biggest record collection across contemporary music genres, more than three million items, larger than the Library of Congress collection.[6]
- Zero Freitas, a Brazilian collector who bought Mawhinney's and several other major collections, plans to put his collection into an organization tentatively named, Emporium Musical, that will follow the model of how Bob George has handled the preservation of his collection, according to a 2014 article in the New York Times.[4]
- Thurston Moore & Byron Coley, collectors of noise, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Coley has upwards of 30,000 items in his collection.[7]
- Alex Paterson from The Orb claimed in Record Collector magazine in 2009 to own 50,000 records and 10,000 CDs.
- John Peel, Radio 1 DJ, renowned for his barns containing hundreds of thousands of records across genres.
- Gilles Peterson, club and BBC Radio 1 DJ. Major jazz, funk, soul, and modern dancefloor music collector who had to move out of his flat to leave space for his collection.[8]
- Tony Prince, ex Radio Luxembourg presenter and owner of DMC International.
- Greg Shaw, creator of the Pebbles series, Who Put The Bomp magazine, and Bomp! Records.
- Harry E. Smith, compiler of the Anthology of American Folk Music.
- Joel Whitburn, author of the Record Research series of books cataloguing Billboard Magazine chart data. Whitburn's collection contains a copy of almost every record to chart on Billboard.
- Mike Veneski, private collector in Connecticut, USA, currently holds over 5,000 jazz and 10,000 rock and roll albums. He claims to additionally own over 8,000 45 RPM records from the rock and roll era.
See also
References
- ↑ UCLA Music Library Ucla.edu, accessed 2011-12-29
- ↑ http://sleevage.com/dj-shadow-endtroducing/
- ↑ http://www.hiphopdx.com, accessed 2011-12-29
- 1 2 Reel, Monte, The Brazilian bus magnate who's buying up all the world's vinyl records, New York Times, August 8, 2014 and as, Warehouse of Sound, New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 10, 2014, page MM18
- ↑ http://www.scotsman.com, accessed 2011-12-29
- ↑ Michaels, Sean (19 February 2008). "World's greatest music collection goes on sale". The Guardian. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ↑ http://www.vice.com, accessed 2011-12-29
- ↑ http://dancemusic.about.com, accessed 2011-12-29
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