Sweet Georgia Brown Newport All Stars 1969

Sweet Georgia Brown Newport All Stars 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 introduced. He hasn't performed in Copenhagen for more than 35 years. This clip is a short version of Sweet Georgia Brown.

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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[olderbluesfan]

Is this Mozart?

[UnexpectedExpressive]

@olderbluesfan One of the best comments I've ever read

[ErlingKlam]

@tromboneJTS Det er på dansk, stupid.

[AyeDunnoJoe]

@olderbluesfan

No.. It's much much better.

[soundslikefrank]

Like land, they don't make 'em like Joe Venuti anymore. Best of the best.

[areallycooldanishkid]

@tromboneJTS dansk ;)

[GennettRecords]

Joe Venuti: He played the violin like an angel. How sad though that we can never see 1969 videos of Eddie Lang or Bix Beiderbecke!

[tromboneJTS]

VARFÖR ÄR DETTA TEXTAT PÅ SVENSKA?

[65attila]

@davidglow3

Joe was wild and so where some of the stories told about and by him.

[davidglow3]

@65attila Is that right Joe was a very wild personality.One evening playing in a hotel,a resident said she was bored and for him to "do something interesting" to liven the evening up.So Joe promptly wheeled the piano over the balcony edge.It crashed down onto the hotel garden.It was just one floor up.Apparently he then turned to the lady and asked if she was still bored..Have you heard this story yourself.

[CapitanoCaracho1]

No this is beathooven !!!!