ABSTRACT
I guess it all goes back to the initial reason for the formation of the organization, and many of the … jazz aficionados were concerned, what would happen to their material in the future, as to whether it would be preserved in some way, or whether in fact it would just be thrown on the dump heap. Their families were no longer interested, their children and grandchildren were not interested in this type of music … so they were very concerned about all this material would be wasted and just thrown away … and [that was] the reason why we came into being. So logically following from that … when people are needing to downsize their homes, if they’ve got to move into a smaller place … they may need to get rid of or offload much of their collection or their material, and so we have become the repository of a lot of that in various different ways. Much of it is very, very good indeed. Much of it is not so good, and much of it we can’t do anything much with at all. However, we do our best.
