Canard
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I made an awesome score in a used book store today. In box of sale items on the floor at the back, I found a pristine copy of Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti: Stringing the Blues, a 2 LP box set from the sixties.
A small sample:
Lang and Venuti were sort of the American Reinhardt and Grappelli. There is obvious cross Atlantic fertilisation on the European side, but Lang and Venuti were earlier, slightly, and were much more American in their musical roots. A lot of Jazz books call Lang the first "modern" Jazz guitarist, the one who first stepped out of the rhythm section to do single note line solos, no small feat without a pickup and amp.
Very cool album.
Major bonus points for me: the wife totally digs the album.
Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti - Stringing The Blues
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A small sample:
Lang and Venuti were sort of the American Reinhardt and Grappelli. There is obvious cross Atlantic fertilisation on the European side, but Lang and Venuti were earlier, slightly, and were much more American in their musical roots. A lot of Jazz books call Lang the first "modern" Jazz guitarist, the one who first stepped out of the rhythm section to do single note line solos, no small feat without a pickup and amp.
Very cool album.
Major bonus points for me: the wife totally digs the album.