Search results for "Joe Venuti"

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Stringing the Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

"Stringing the Blues," drawing on the early jazz classic "Tiger Rag," is the first violin-guitar duet of Joe Venuti &...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Wild Cat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

"Wild Cat" is an apt title for this recording, as the piece is taken at a fast, if not frenzied, tempo and played wit...

Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti: Raggin' the Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

Call me crazy, but to my ears (and to get a bit grandiose), this seems like a short-piece jazz answer to Bach's Brand...

Adrian Rollini: Beatin' The Dog (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

This track is one of a series of classic recordings of what can best be described as chamber jazz led by Joe Venuti f...

Hoagy Carmichael & Bix Beiderbecke: Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Records hardly get stranger than this. An integrated, all-star cast convenes to record a tune most of them thought wa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Jean Goldkette (with Bix Beiderbecke): My Pretty Girl (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 13, 07

Jean Goldkette had fired Bix for his poor reading skills, but later rehired him, forming the hottest white dance band...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

The Boswell Sisters: Shout, Sister, Shout (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 19, 07

In his book Jazz Singing (1990), Will Friedwald calls The Boswell Sisters "the greatest of all jazz vocal groups." Pr...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Krazy Kat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Hollywood's Young Man With a Horn (1950), writes film scholar David Sterritt, is "loosely based" on Bix Beiderbecke a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Royce Campbell (featuring Joe Kennedy): Happy Rhythm (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 14, 08

An empyrean venture on multiple levels: three Olympian musicians, ethereal feel, supernal solos, a sonically cosmic r...

Mooney, Joe posted in Encyclopedia October 22, 09

Mooney, Joe, vocals, accordion, piano, organ (b. Paterson, New Jersey, March 14, 1911, d. May 12, 1975, Ft. Lauderdal...

Lang, Eddie (Salvatore Massaro) posted in Encyclopedia January 17, 09

Eddie Lang popularized the guitar as a lead and rhythm instrument in jazz. A versatile and lyrical player, his recor...

Hinton, Milt (Milton John) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09

Bassist Milt Jackson advanced the role of the bassist in a jazz ensemble by performing with a keen rhythmic intellect...

Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 05, 09

Jazz.com published its 6,000th article yesterday—a total which includes more than 4,000 track reviews contributed by...

Grappelli, Stéphane posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Stéphane Grappelli modernized the sound of the violin with his balance between gentle lyricism and active swing. Co...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

Niles, Richard (Romano) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Niles, Richard (Romano), composer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, broadcaster, journalist, author; b. Hollyw...

Django Reinhardt: Djangology (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

The first Continentals to play le jazz Américain on a par with Yanks, Le Quintette du Hot Club de France was inspired...

Smith, Stuff (Hezekiah Leroy Gordon) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Some say Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the first to make the violin swing. Others say it was Joe Venuti, an...

Foster, Pops (George Murphy) posted in Encyclopedia August 19, 09

Bassist George Foster's powerful sense of rhythm and resonant tone rang out with authority across early jazz, earning...

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