I want to be Happy - Venuti 1969

I want to be Happy Venuti 1969

In 1969 George Wein brings his Newport All Stars to Copenhagen, Denmark.
In the band are Ruby Braff cornet, Joe Venuti violin, Barney Kessel guitar, Red Norvo vibraphone, Larry Ridley bass, Don Lamond drums and of course George Wein piano.

Joe Venuti is featured in "I want to be Happy". One of Joe's specialties was to loosen the hairs on his bow and play with the hairs over the strings with the bow underneath the violin

Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 -- August 14, 1978) was a U.S. jazz musician and violinist. Venuti claimed to have been born aboard a ship as his parents emigrated from Italy, though many believe he was simply born in Philadelphia. Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the guitarist Eddie Lang, a childhood friend of his. Through the 1920s and early 1930s, Venuti produced many recordings. He worked with Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Bing Crosby, the Boswell Sisters and most of the other important white jazz and semi-jazz figures of the late 1920s and early 1930s. However, following Lang's early death in 1933, he began to slip off the radar. After a period of relative obscurity in the 1940s and 1950s, he was 'rediscovered' in the late 1960s and established a musical relationship with tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, that was almost as fruitful as his previous collaboration with Lang. Venuti and Sims produced a number of very exciting recordings in 1974/75: an appropriate coda to the great violinist's career.

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[Mumblez5772]

venuti is one of the many jazz violinists that is too little known in our time

[BIGHOWDYROCKS]

BJayHomeslice - UR A DUMBASS!!!!

[jivan69ify]

bom!!!Fortuna che è un mio parente!!!! Grandeeee suono basso e chitarra ma il violino non mi è mai venuto in testa nonstante ce l'ho in casaaaa!!

[BJayHomeslice]

he sucks asss omgggggg this was a 4 minute waste of my life

[potatoepeter1]

Absolut very good

[djangoshmango]

I am a fan. Please note the bow trick at the end.

[enigmamelodies]

@65attila

I thought you might like to hear the my latest upload on my channel of your great uncle Joe with my dad on Autumn Leaves. Too bad I don't have real film of the original album or of the concert at the Great American Music Hall, but I have some very nice of the concert I made into a video. You'll hear all the classical Joe coming out.... Let me know what you think. I really enjoy your channel by the way.

[enigmamelodies]

@65attila They come straight from the heart. Joe was a miracle. I was backstage with Stephane Grapelli (who considered himself first and foremost a pianist, many people don't know this) one night with my dad, and Grapelli very gracefully and humbly called Joe - 'Maestro.'

[65attila]

@enigmamelodies

Thanks for your kind comments. He had classical training and

was a musician to the core.

[enigmamelodies]

@65attila Yes! Classically trained. Maybe that's what gave him that perfect tuning. When Joe played a note it was played. Perfect is the only word. I remember watching Joe play as a child. It amazed me those hands with those huge fingers could play such music straight from heaven. I was lucky enough to be in his home many times with my father and hear them play for hours. I heard magic every time. Dad actually started on the violin. They understood one another like brothers.