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Joe Venuti

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Although renowned as one of the world's great practical jokers (he once called a couple dozen bass players with an alleged gig and asked them to show up with their instruments at a busy street corner just so he could view the resulting chaos), Joe Venuti's real importance to jazz is as improvised music's first great violinist. He was a boyhood friend of Eddie Lang (jazz's first great guitarist) and the duo teamed up in a countless number of settings during the second half of the 1920s, including recording influential duets. Venuti moved to New York in 1925, and immediately he and Lang were greatly in demand for jazz recordings, studio work, and club appearances. Venuti seemed to play with every top white jazz musician during the segregated era and, in 1929, he and Lang joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, appearing in the film The King of Jazz.

Lang's premature death in 1933 was a major blow to Venuti, who gradually faded away from the spotlight. In 1935, after visiting Europe, the violinist formed a big band and, although it survived quite awhile and helped introduce both singer Kay Starr and drummer Barrett Deems, it was a minor-league orchestra that only recorded four songs (which Venuti characteristically titled "Flip," "Flop," "Something," and "Nothing"). His brief stint in the military during World War II ended the big band, and when he was discharged, Venuti stuck to studio work in Los Angeles. He was regularly featured on Bing Crosby's early-'50s radio show, but in reality the 1936-1966 period was the Dark Ages for Venuti as he drifted into alcoholism and was largely forgotten by the jazz world.

However, in 1967 Joe Venuti began a major comeback, playing at the peak of his powers at Dick Gibson's Colorado Jazz Party. His long-interrupted recording career resumed with many fine sessions (matching his violin with the likes of Zoot Sims, Earl Hines, Marian McPartland, George Barnes, Dave McKenna, and Bucky Pizzarelli, among others) and, despite his increasingly bad health, Venuti's final decade was a triumph.

Title: It's Wonderful

Artist: Joe Venuti

Genre: Jazz

Title: Joe In Chicago, 1978

Artist: Joe Venuti

Genre: Jazz

Title: Electric Joe!

Artist: Joe Venuti

Genre: Jazz

Title: One Minute

Artist: Joe Venuti

Genre: Pop

Title: Hot Sonatas

Artist: Earl Hines, Joe Venuti

Genre: Jazz

Title: Dinah - Single

Artist: Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang

Genre: Pop

Title: Hot Strings

Artist: Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang

Genre: Jazz

Collections

Title: Hits Of '30

Genre: Jazz

Title: 101 Big Bands Swing

Genre: Jazz

Title: The Jazzman

Genre: Jazz

Title: A Taste Of 1933

Genre: Jazz

Featuring albums

Title: Little White Lies

Artist: Kay Starr

Genre: Pop

Title: Rhapsody In Blue

Artist: Paul Whiteman

Genre: Jazz

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