Django, Grappelli, Eddie South - Bach Double - Longer Version

[PinkYachi]

My life is complete. :)

[whenmyguitar]

Thank you very much !

[2ndviolinist]

@whenmyguitar You are welcome.

[drkviolin2010]

Eddie is second to none on the violin>We must consider idiom ,and style.Jazz is different than any other .He never really got a chance to show off his concerto chops.Pound for pound Stuffy Smith dusted them all in jazz.Swung harder,beboped more inventively,and help dizzy Gillespie with ideas.

[steinviolino]

If J.S. was alive today, I bet that's what he'd be doing :~)

[2ndviolinist]

@steinviolino Possibly, in this environment for "classical" music.

[NiteDogTeamBS]

Appreciate this upload. Thanks. It really doesn't make any difference that "he wasn't really on the level of the better classical violinists of his time", as you say. He certainly gets the message and sentiment across all prejudicial boundaries.

[2ndviolinist]

@NiteDogTeamBS I think Eddie South, Joe Venuti, and Stephan Grappelli are all fantastic. I do believe the level of the successful concert violinist of that time was well above Eddie's but I consider the 3 fiddlers I mentioned as head and shoulders above any others playing jazz and I doubt many of the "straight" violinists could compete as jazz players. Thus their contributions stand out as at least as worthy as their contemporaries in the classical world and it's so much fun to listen to!

[lennietristanojazz]

@2ndviolinist All three of them could play classical music well according to most accounts. I think Venuti was the most classically-oriented of them. Alot of the stuff him and Eddie Lang did in the 20s anticipated things like chamber jazz etc.

[louiba82]

you're a star! thanks for uploading :)

[2ndviolinist]

You are welcome. Great stuff.

[TheEdwardtheBooble]

Beyond blissful! And thanks for the biographies too.