Timme Rosenkrantz

Timme Rosenkrantz: Timme's Treasures

by Chris Mosey
November 5, 2015

Danish nobleman Niels Otte Timme Baron Rosenkrantz could trace his ancestry way back to the Anglicized Rosencrantz in Shakespeare's Hamlet. He became a journalist and was the first European to report on the jazz scene in Harlem, writing for Scandinavian publications and for Downbeat, Metronome and Esquire in the United States and Melody Maker in Britain. Doug Dobell, proprietor of a London jazz record store, who was a friend, called upon the shades of ...