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| A Handful of Riffs |
| Eddie Lang |
| első megjelenés éve: 1994 |
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| (1994)
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| 3.396 Ft
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| 1. | Eddie's Twister
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| 2. | April Kisses
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| 3. | Prelude
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| 4. | Melody Man's Dream
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| 5. | Perfect
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| 6. | Rainbow Dreams
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| 7. | Add a Little Wiggle
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| 8. | Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time )
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| 9. | I'll Never Be the Same
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| 10. | Church Street Sobbin' Blues
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| 11. | There'll Be Some Changes Made
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| 12. | Two-Tone Stomp
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| 13. | Jet Black Blues
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| 14. | Blue Blood Blues
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| 15. | Bull Frog Moan
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| 16. | A Handful of Riffs
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| 17. | Bugle Call Rag
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| 18. | Freeze and Melt
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| 19. | Hot Heels
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| 20. | Walkin' the Dog
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| 21. | March of the Hoodlums
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Jazz
Eddie Lang - Guitar, Sax (Alto)
Andy Secrest - Trumpet
Arthur Schutt - Piano
Bernie Daly - Sax (Alto)
Bill Rank - Trombone
Blind Willie Dunn - Guitar, Sax (Alto)
Charles Strickfaden - Sax (Alto)
Charlie Margulis - Trumpet
Frank Signorelli - Piano
George Marsh - Drums
Henry Whiteman - Violin
Hoagy Carmichael - Celeste, Percussion, Piano, Vocals
Izzy Friedman - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
J.C. Johnson - Piano
Jimmy Dorsey - Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
Joe Tarto - Bass, String Bass
Justin Ring - Chimes
King Oliver - Cornet
Leo McConville - Trumpet
Lonnie Johnson - Guitar, Sax (Alto)
* Max Jones Files - Photography
* Mike Doyle - Producer, Research
Mike Trafficante - Bass, String Bass
* Phil Duffy - Cover Design, Sleeve Design
Stan King - Drums
Tommy Dorsey - Trombone, Trumpet
* Vic Bellerby - Compilation, Compilation Producer, Liner Notes
Almost always presented in tandem reissues with violinist Joe Venuti, early jazz guitar virtuoso Eddie Lang here receives an outstanding and well-deserved tribute: 21 chronologically arrayed classic jazz and blues recordings made between 1927 and 1929 without a trace of Venuti but featuring a number of gifted musicians. Lang is heard by himself on "April Kisses"; accompanied by pianists Frank Signorelli and Arthur Schutt; and in duet with blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson. Crossing the color line during an era when record company executives feared that racially mingled ensembles might offend the public, Lang whimsically ducked behind the pseudonym "Blind Willie Dunn" whenever making records with musicians of African ancestry. Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four consisted of Johnson and Lang, pianist J.C. Johnson, and cornetist King Oliver. This excellent example of Oliver blowing his horn in an intimate setting features a mysterious individual tapping a bottle with a pencil and singing "Oh, pass that gin." While some sources identify him as percussionist Justin Ring (who plays chimes on "Church Street Sobbin' Blues"), Living Era posits instead the presence of Hoagy Carmichael. This is not an unreasonable conjecture given the fact that Carmichael is heard six months later playing piano and celeste with Eddie Lang & His Orchestra. Lang's other orchestra date featured the brothers Dorsey and tuba titan Joe Tarto. With all respect to the missing Joe Venuti, this very well could be the best Eddie Lang album of them all.
--- arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Eddie Lang
Active Decades: '20s and '30s
Born: Oct 25, 1902 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: Mar 26, 1933 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Classic Jazz, Swing
The first jazz guitar virtuoso, Eddie Lang was everywhere in the late '20s; all of his fellow musicians knew that he was the best. A boyhood friend of Joe Venuti, Lang took violin lessons for 11 years but switched to guitar before he turned professional. In 1924 he debuted with the Mound City Blue Blowers and was soon in great demand for recording dates, both in the jazz world and in commercial settings. His sophisticated chord patterns made him a superior accompanist who uplifted everyone else's music and Lang was also a fine single-note soloist. He often teamed up with violinist Venuti (including some classic duets) and played with Red Nichols's Five Pennies, Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke (most memorably on "Singing the Blues"), the orchestras of Roger Wolfe Kahn, Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman (appearing on one short number with Venuti in Whiteman's 1930 film The King of Jazz) and anyone else who could hire him. A measure of Lang's versatility and talents is that he mostly played the chordal parts on a series of duets with Lonnie Johnson (during which he used the pseudonym Blind Willie Dunn) yet on his two duets with Carl Kress (whose chord voicings were an advancement on Lang's), he played the single-note leads. Eddie Lang, who led some dates of his own during 1927-29, worked regularly with Bing Crosby during the early '30s in addition to recording many sessions with Venuti. Tragically his premature death was caused by a botched operation on a tonsillectomy.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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