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Mr. Becker from Berlin just called back. He's not our man.
As "Heinz Becker " is the german version of "Henry Baker", one can imagine how much of them are existing out there.
I found the right Heinz Becker! @Buco it is the man drinking wine! The site was taken down because it became too expensive. I'm going to see what I can do to get it back online...
Excellent work!
Ok but now I'm wondering about the rights on these recordings. Was he even allowed to put all those files online like that?
Always wondered about that too... :) Sure is a good resource.
I talked to Heinz and found a way to get the archive of recordings back online but the rights question is holding me back. I can't find any indisputable documentation on this subject so I'm afraid it ends here.
Here's what Michael Horowitz had to say on this subject in an older thread: I've spoken with one firm that pays royalties to Django's heirs....he said it usually entails someone dropping a bag of money off at a caravan somewhere around Paris. I'm serious!
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I think i can help here.
Heinz was directing the Goethe Institute in Montreal. He sure loved Django's music and came regularly to hear me play here in town. Oh, forgot to mention, he was born german and had a good life as far as he told me. He liked the fact that i was really into Django's music and history.
We quickly became friends. As he was retiring from his job, he thought of putting on the web the whole of Django's recording and information.
I noticed he took quite a lot of things (pictures, archives), of my old djangomontreal web site. That was fine with me anyway, it was there to be shared. I thought to myself, man he's going to get "hit on the finger" for putting it out on youtube (in those days...) ;-)
He then went on to "collect" everything coleman hawkins, Oscar aleman, german swing band, etc. Put it on his website.
I believe he's back in germany now.
Francois Rousseau
Feb 2022