Stringing the Blues

Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B00003OOV5
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Goin' Places

2. Doin' Things

3. Perfect

4. Cheese and Crackers

5. Stringin' the Blues

6. I'm Somebody's Somebody Now

7. Two-Tone Stomp

8. Beatin' the Dog

9. The Wild Dog

10. Dinah

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. It's Right Here for You

2. You Can't Cheat on a Cheater

3. Tiger Rag

4. A Handful of Riffs

5. Running Ragged

6. Pardon Me, Pretty Baby

7. I'll Never Be the Same

8. I've Found a New Baby

9. Little Girl

10. I Got Rhythm

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Venuti & Lang doin' what they do best..., September 27, 2000

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Aaron The Baron - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stringing the Blues (Audio CD)

Joe Venuti perhaphs the finest jazz violenist ever and Ediie Land perhaphs the greatest jazz guitarist ever(with the exception of Django Reinhart) are together here for some red hot duets, leading their own groups and appearing with different vocalists or as sidemem, whatever it is they get plaenty of solos space, and this CD is consistantly enjoyable. This is an essentail set well worh the price.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Collection From Jazz Pioneers Lang and Venuti!, September 22, 2003

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bix lang "pastafagiole" (Davenport, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stringing the Blues (Audio CD)

From "Dinah" to "Tiger Rag" this collection illuminates the magnificent musical abilities of the first great Jazz violinst, Joe Venuti and his equally innovative buddy, Eddie Lang (born Salvatore Massaro), who practically invented jazz guitar in the 1920s. Long before Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Stephane Grappelli, there was Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, both musical prodigies from South Philadelphia who had brilliant careers that began in the early days of Jazz. Lang's career was cut tragically short when he died of complications from surgery for infected tonsils at the age of 31 in 1933 (remember, this was long before the discovery of antibiotics). Like Venuti, Lang recorded with such immortals as Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby (who was Lang's best friend), Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo, and Frankie Trumbauer, among many others. Lang was a magnificent accompanist as well as a creative lead player who put single string improvisational guitar-playing on the musical map. That's Eddie playing incredibly behind and around Bix on the immortal "Sing'n the Blues." Venuti was the first violinist to play stunning lead solos on an instrument that previously was not even accepted in the jazz world. Whether playing a haunting ballad or an uptempo eight-to-the-bar number, Venuti was an incredible improvisor. It should be noted by Jazz afficionados that Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in the 1930s modeled their playing on that of Lang and Venuti in the 1920s. This collection is a marvelous one, and I enthusiastically recommend it to all jazz buffs who appreciate two true immortals of the genre.

5.0 out of 5 stars the original hot jazz string duo, June 3, 2006

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COMPUTERJAZZMAN "computerjazzman" (Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stringing the Blues (Audio CD)

before there was Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, Oscar Aleman, or Stuff Smith, there was Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, the originators of violin and guitar hot jazz. This is a great overview of their output from the late 20's to early 30's, when Eddie Lang died. Anyone who appreciates jazz wioll like this CD, which still sounds goood today.