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| 1. | Stringin' the Blues
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| 2. | Bugle Call Rag
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| 3. | Doin' Things
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| 4. | Goin' Places
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| 5. | Kickin' the Cat
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| 6. | Beatin' the Dog
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| 7. | A Mug of Ale
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| 8. | Four String Joe
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| 9. | Dinah
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| 10. | The Wild Dog
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| 11. | The Man from the South (With a Big Cigar in His Mouth)
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| 12. | Wild Cat
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| 13. | Running Ragged (Bamboozlin' the Bassoon)
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| 14. | I've Found a New Baby
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| 15. | Little Girl
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| 16. | I'll Never Be the Same (Little Buttercup)
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| 17. | To to Blues
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| 18. | Raggin' the Scale
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| 19. | Hey! Young Fella
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| 20. | Jig Saw Puzzle Blues
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| 21. | Pink Elephants
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| 22. | Beale Street Blues
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| 23. | After You've Gone
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| 24. | Someday Sweetheart
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| 25. | Farewell Blues
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Jazz
Joe Venuti - Violin
Eddie Lang
Adrian Rollini - Goofus, Sax (Bass), Vibraphone
Arthur Schutt - Piano
Benny Goodman - Clarinet
Charlie Teagarden - Trumpet
Frank Signorelli - Piano
Frankie Trumbauer - Bassoon, Cymbals
Harold Arlen - Vocals
Jack Teagarden - Trombone
Jimmy Dorsey - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone), Trumpet
Justin Ring - Cymbals
Lennie Hayton - Piano
Miff Mole - Trombone
Neil Marshall - Drums
Phil Wall - Piano
Red Nichols - Cornet
Rube Bloom - Piano, Vocals
Vic Berton - Drums
Ward Lay - Double Bass
* Martin Haskell - Audio Restoration, Remastering
* Phil Duffy - Design
* Ray Crick - Compilation
* Tim Debney - Audio Restoration, Remastering
* Vic Bellerby - Compilation, Liner Notes
Pioneers in the early development of the violin and guitar as jazz instruments, Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang made music that can best be described as friendly and inventive. This Living Era compilation presents a chronologically arranged series of their best recordings made between November 1926 and February 1933. As a sort of encore, the producers have added four tracks recorded in October of 1931 featuring Benny Goodman and the brothers Teagarden. VenutiLang's "Stringing the Blues" sets the stage for a satisfying procession of hot jazz performances made enjoyably remarkable by each player's ingenuity. The cast of characters includes Red Nichols and Miff Mole, tuba titan Joe Tarto, multi-instrumentalists Adrian Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey, and the brave Frankie Trumbauer, who conducts a facile experiment in hot bassoon improvisation. In addition to Jack Teagarden's smooth blue crooning, there is a sweet vocal by Harold Arlen and bursts of lively scat sung by pianist Rube Bloom can be heard. Anyone seeking the perfect example of Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang at their beatific best will find it in their delicate rendering of Frank Signorelli's lovely opus "I'll Never Be the Same." The only flaw in the entire package occurs in the liner notes, which erroneously state that Joe Venuti died in 1974. While his date of birth will never be firmly established, there is little doubt that Fiddler Joe passed away in August of 1978.
---arwulf arwulf, 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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