Eddie Lang - Perfect

[williamanesbitt]

Only time I've read that Django came to the U.S. was with Ellington in 1946. That was when he was late to Carnegie Hall and hacked off the American music critics.

[sirjuandabicho]

Estupendo, muchas gracias por compartirlo.

[n64wilbert]

What year is this 1927?

[TheAlexandres13]

yeah

[sasapaljenkas]

Simply - perfect!

[gabri3l367]

Queste poche note soliste hanno un senso immenso ed una perfezione armonica unica. Eddie Lang !!!!!!!!! Grandissimo........ !!!

[BilboHalfling]

i'd never heard of eddie lang until today... i met a guy who said he had a cousin named eddie lang who played jazz guitar back before the advent of the electric guitar... i looked up his name, and there he was. great.

[ChavezRey]

Both Django and Eddie (Sal) started out playing banjo guitar, each man played an ethnic music: Django playing waltz time musette and Eddie playing Italian pop tunes very much related (both with accordion accompaniment). Eddie was really the first one to swap the banjo for the guitar, you can hear all the jazz bands featured banjo before him. Philly just held Eddie Lang day!

[kingoma61]

Eddie Lang composed "Perfect" with Frank Signorelli. Some of Eddie Lang's other compositions included "April Kisses", "Wild Cat", "Goin' Places", "Doin' Things", "Stringin' the Blues", "Cheese and Crackers", "Guitar Blues" with Lonnie Johnson, and "Pickin' My Way" and Feelin' My Way" with Carl Kress. His 1927 recording "Singin' the Blues" with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

[Amolabirraperoni]

he was born in Monteroduni, a small italian city where every year there is a jazz concert dedicated to him!!!

[pencap23]

I would have loved to hear him play with Django... : [

[awesomewelles90]

I hear a lot of country blues inflections in his playing. Nice!

[oramikleepunk]

@awesomewelles90 I agree...I hear alot of blues and C&W.

[rockradstone]

Thanks for posting this.

Your spelling of the song's title isn't quite "Perfect" though... (Har har)

[cox1356]

It's been left that way for a while, thanks.

[bpabustan]

Salvatorre Massaro a.k.a. Eddie Lang was one of the first jazz guitarist to conceptualize the guitar solo in single note lines. Although Johnny St. Cyr did some guitar solos, his was more chordal than single notes. Also, Eddie Lang was an early advocate of the Gibson L-5 alongside Maybelle Carter.

This track is a great example of his excellent musicianship. Now I wanna hear his tracks with Lonnie Johnson. That would definitely ROCK!

[guitaneman]

the old guitars must have been painful to play solo's on .. i dont know what guitar eddie played but it dont sound to good i bet charlie christian couldnt belevie his luck with his gibson .. oh yeah and django reinhardt with with maccaferri

[thejazzman8]

its a loyd loar l-5...old guitars are superior to new ones.

[jazzguitardotcom]

No argument there.. although the new luthier made guitars are the best that have ever existed.

[thejazzman8]

the charlie christian is not a very nice guitar, its just an es150 with the charlie christian pickup, which is actually very muddy and heavy...furthermore vintage gibsons are the best to solo on.

[grtdebater]

said to be the father of the jazz guitar

[flooberbloob]

Funny how he and Django came up around the same time on separate continents and never crossed paths..

But Eddie did die at age 31in 1932 and Django didn't visit the States until 1934 I think..

There would have been some fireworks.

[SayNOtoCarrots]

@flooberbloob fireworks, mos def.

[guitars470dxqmcn]

@flooberbloob Django actually only visited the States briefly in 1946 to go on tour with Duke Ellington.

[flooberbloob]

@Dicedude you might want to read my post again - that is exactly what I said. I was merely lamenting the fact that they never met. By the way, Django's career didn't start in 1934. . From '29-'33 he was already playing regularly. In 1933 alone he recorded numerous tracks, over 30 with the singer Jean Sablon, even more with Freddy Taylor. His career was already well under way. The Quintette was started in 1934. Check your facts before correcting someone else.

[playingwithfirehurts]

@flooberbloob its bings fault, he told him to get surgery, i guess it didnt go over too well

[flooberbloob]

@playingwithfirehurts wow - I never knew that! I can't imagine what hand surgery was like in that time! So glad he didn't heed his advice!

[sclogse1]

Les Paul said Eddie was THE MAN.

[petersuki]

Greatest session/all round jazz guitarist of all time. Do the detractors know how many brilliant lines he just threw in? Maybe they don't know the idiom. Eddie was brilliant all over the place

[UrineTastesGood]

Heard he invented the guitar solo.. Or at least he was one of the first.. Either way, loads of respect for him.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Trumpet Style.

[msmirkat]

thanks so much for posting this perfect song! by lang.

[zu3tu7]

pefect playing...:-)

[italianstallionn]

Proudly from Italy: too bad nowadays we have Berlusconi the Bastard! Shame on Italian voters...

[Squarerig]

One of the greatest guitar players of all time.Unique in his style,approach and execution.What an inheritance we have from this man.Absolutely beautiful music.

[marm847]

This man was a true genius. He made everything possible. DOn't compare him with anyone. The others, would have never existed without Eddie.

[PollyX5]

Well,...this solo does kinda remind me of Lonnie...

[tenorbanjo4]

Proudly from Italy: the true name of Eddie Lang was Salvatore Massaro :O)

[sergobfusion89]

@tenorbanjo4 yeah!! la cosa nostra!!!

[xxxxharp]

Eddie Lang is my favorite guitar player of all times. His single line bass notes and his style are truly unique. Magical....