Jazz Photo Timme Rosenkrantz Collection sdub.dk & amda.dk

audio: Mary Lou Williams piano, Inez Cavanaugh vocal, Timme Rosenkrantz private recording 1968
The jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark
The Music Department at the University Library of Southern Denmark (SDUB) in Odense has through donations and acquisitions since 1997 achieved the status of research archive of specialist jazz studies. The Danish Jazz Center ceased to exist on the 1st July 1997. A great deal of the collections was transferred to the former Odense University Library - including the Center's public collection, Timme Rosenkrantz's Collection, Ben Webster's Collection, Radio Jazz's Collection and Erik Lindemann's Collection - a smaller part went to the Danish Jazz Assocation while that part of the collection, which belonged to the Head of the Center, Arnvid Meyer, has since been purchased by the Royal Library although it has up to now remained in Meyer's possession.

The collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark have since been enlarged due to purchases and donations, for example, the private collections of Svend Asmussen and Richard Boone.

The collections are housed in the Music Department and can be used during the Music Department's opening hours. They are only for use on the premises and are not for loan. A room, however, with all forms of listening facilities is available.

Indexes to the Jazz Center's collections of tape recordings and videos and Rosenkrantz's, Webster's and Lindemann's collections accompanied the collections and they can be used on the premises.

All the books, sheet music, records, CDs and DVDs are catalogued and can be retrieved in the library's catalogue. Current registration is concentrated on the reel-to-reel tapes in Rosenkrantz's collection