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| Violin Jazz 1927 to 1934 |
| Joe Venuti |
| első megjelenés éve: 1990 |
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| (1990)
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| 5.421 Ft
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| 1. | Sensation
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| 2. | Apple Blossoms
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| 3. | Raggin' the Scale
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| 4. | Satan's Holiday
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| 5. | A Mug of Ale
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| 6. | Hey! Young Fella
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| 7. | Wild Cat
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| 8. | The Wild Dog
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| 9. | Sweet Lorraine
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| 10. | Kickin' the Cat
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| 11. | Jig Saw Puzzle Blues
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| 12. | Hiawatha's Lullaby
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| 13. | Four String Joe
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| 14. | Goin' Places
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Jazz
Joe Venuti - Violin
Adrian Rollini - , Goofus, Piano, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Bass), Vibraphone
Arthur Schutt - Piano
Arthur Young - Piano
Benny Goodman - Clarinet
Bud Freeman - Sax (Tenor)
Dick McDonough - Guitar
Don Barrigo - Sax (Tenor)
Don Murray - Clarinet, Sax (Baritone)
Dough Lees - Bass (Upright)
Eddie Lang - Guitar
Frank Signorelli - Piano
Frank Victor - Guitar
Frankie Trumbauer - Bassoon, Sax (C-Melody)
Itzy Riskin - Piano
Jimmy Dorsey - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone), Trumpet
Joe Sullivan - Piano
Justin Ring - Cymbals, Drums
Lennie Hayton - Celeste, Piano
Neil Marshall - Drums
Pete Pumiglio - Sax (Baritone)
Phil Wall - Piano
Rube Bloom - Piano, Vocals
This hodgepodge sampler contains 14 of violinist Joe Venuti's better recordings from the 1927-34 period, many of them also featuring guitarist Eddie Lang. The performances are mostly drawn from sessions by Venuti's Blue Four with some of the soloists including Jimmy Dorsey (switching between clarinet, alto, trumpet and baritone), Frankie Trumbauer (on C-melody sax and bassoon), bass-saxophonist Adrian Rollini and, on "Sweet Lorraine," clarinetist Benny Goodman. The music is consistently exciting although serious collectors will want to acquire releases from the more complete European series instead.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Joe Venuti
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Sep 16, 1903 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: Aug 14, 1978 in Seattle, WA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Classic Jazz, Dixieland, Mainstream Jazz, Swing
Although renowned as one of the world's great practical jokers (he once called a couple dozen bass players with an alleged gig and asked them to show up with their instruments at a busy street corner just so he could view the resulting chaos), Joe Venuti's real importance to jazz is as improvised music's first great violinist. He was a boyhood friend of Eddie Lang (jazz's first great guitarist) and the duo teamed up in a countless number of settings during the second half of the 1920s, including recording influential duets. Venuti moved to New York in 1925, and immediately he and Lang were greatly in demand for jazz recordings, studio work, and club appearances. Venuti seemed to play with every top white jazz musician during the segregated era and, in 1929, he and Lang joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, appearing in the film The King of Jazz.
Lang's premature death in 1933 was a major blow to Venuti, who gradually faded away from the spotlight. In 1935, after visiting Europe, the violinist formed a big band and, although it survived quite awhile and helped introduce both singer Kay Starr and drummer Barrett Deems, it was a minor-league orchestra that only recorded four songs (which Venuti characteristically titled "Flip," "Flop," "Something," and "Nothing"). His brief stint in the military during World War II ended the big band, and when he was discharged, Venuti stuck to studio work in Los Angeles. He was regularly featured on Bing Crosby's early-'50s radio show, but in reality the 1936-1966 period was the Dark Ages for Venuti as he drifted into alcoholism and was largely forgotten by the jazz world.
However, in 1967 Joe Venuti began a major comeback, playing at the peak of his powers at Dick Gibson's Colorado Jazz Party. His long-interrupted recording career resumed with many fine sessions (matching his violin with the likes of Zoot Sims, Earl Hines, Marian McPartland, George Barnes, Dave McKenna, and Bucky Pizzarelli, among others) and, despite his increasingly bad health, Venuti's final decade was a triumph.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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