Broadcaster Comments

I have collected Jazz Violin recordings for close to thirty years. Since many of these classic recordings are hard to find I've started a radio station featuring my favorite Jazz Violin recordings using Live365.com's service. The music range from early swing by Joe Venuti, Eddie South, Svend Asmussen & Stephane Grappelli through bebop by Harry Lookofsky & Jean-Luc Ponty (including his classic LP from 1967 Sunday Walk) to fusion by Michal Urbaniak and free/modal by Zbigniew Seifert. Seifert, a personal favorite of mine, set very high standards for that style that in my opinion have never been surpassed. Of the swing tracks I included some very rare duets between Svend Asmussen and Ulrik Neumann. On two cuts Asmussen uses the 4 string technique pioneered by Joe Venuti where the stick of the bow is under the violin and the bow hairs therefore touch all 4 strings simultaneously. The classic concert recording, Violin Summit, from 1966 with Stuff Smith, Stephane Grappelli, Svend Asmussen and Jean-Luc Ponty is also included. In addition I feature what as far as I know is the earliest recordings of a Jazz String Quartet: Erik Moseholm presents Jazz Strings 1958, a Danish recording featuring Svend Asmussen. For more historical and discographical information see http://www.abar.net/.

Plays Tracks Like

Harry Lookofsky - I Let a Song go out of My Heart - Stringsville

Ray Nance - Penthouse Serande (When We're Alone) - The Complete 1940-1949 Non-Ducal Violin Recordings

Eddie South - Lady Be Good - Eddie South In Paris 1929 & 1937

Stuff Smith - The red jumps3 - The Trio-1943

Svend Asmussen - Dinah - Vol. 2- 1941-50

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