L-G Nordström's jazz collection
Collection materials in format
Lars-Gunnar ”Nubben” Nordström (1924–2014) was a Finnish pioneer of non-representational art and a passionate friend of jazz music.
Collection description
Lars-Gunnar ”Nubben” Nordström (1924–2014) was a Finnish pioneer of non-representational art and a passionate friend of jazz music. His interest in jazz began in 1941 when he heard Duke Ellington’s Mood Indigo on the radio. In the late 1950s, he started collecting vinyl albums which eventually numbered more than 11 000 copies. In all, Nordström purchased 16 000 records. This collection comprises mostly jazz music produced in the USA. His favourite artists were Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and other great names of the 1930s and 1940s. He was also interested in bebop, 1950s mainstream jazz and experimenters such as Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. He often talked about how jazz music had links with his art. In 2015, the Foundation for Constructive Art donated Lars-Gunnar Nordström’s music collection to the National Library of Finland.
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Material type
Accrual status
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveParent collection
The Music Recording CollectionCollection themes
Cataloguing principles
Listing. LP records have been catalogued according to general discography standards: artist, title, label, catalogue number, year, album notes writer, other info.
Catalogue information
More information about cataloguing
LP records have been catalogued. Other materials of the collection have not been catalogued. Other materials: gramophone records, EP and single records, 10 inch records, cd records, discographies, jazz magazines, record shop catalogues, record company brochures, vhs cassettes, c-cassettes, correspondence, photographs.
More information about format
Analogue
Sound recording
Digitised (Lars-Gunnar Nordström's radio interviews)
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Provenance
Sound records are stored according to the original system used by the collector.
Acquisition policy
Donation