Eddie Lang And Joe Venuti 1920's & 1930's Sides

The first jazz guitar virtuoso, Eddie Lang was everywhere in the late '20s; all of his fellow musicians knew that he was the best. A boyhood friend of Joe Venuti, Lang took violin lessons for 11 years but switched to guitar before he turned professional. In 1924 he debuted with the Mound City Blue Blowers and was soon in great demand for recording dates, both in the jazz world and in commercial settings. His sophisticated chord patterns made him a superior accompanist who uplifted everyone else's music and Lang was also a fine single-note soloist. He often teamed up with violinist Venuti (including some classic duets) and played with Red Nichols's Five Pennies, Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke (most memorably on "Singing the Blues"), the orchestras of Roger Wolfe Kahn, Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman (appearing on one short number with Venuti in Whiteman's 1930 film The King of Jazz) and anyone else who could hire him. A measure of Lang's versatility and talents is that he mostly played the chordal parts on a series of duets with Lonnie Johnson (during which he used the pseudonym Blind Willie Dunn) yet on his two duets with Carl Kress (whose chord voicings were an advancement on Lang's), he played the single-note leads. Eddie Lang, who led some dates of his own during 1927-29, worked regularly with Bing Crosby during the early '30s in addition to recording many sessions with Venuti. Tragically his premature death was caused by a botched operation on a tonsillectomy. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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pirateK (2005-07-05)

Hey Ulyana...not that I am not grateful to have the Eddie Lang/Joe Venuti tracks, but is there any chance you can share them at a higher bit rate? 96kpbs works for sampling, but... ;-) Thanks!

xarvidx (2006-05-28)

PLEASE SEED, I'm stuck @ 99,7. I really really want this.

aksyonoff (2008-02-19)

Please seed it! Thanx!

Abram03 (2009-01-08)

Great jazz! Thanks, Ulyana! Alas, like everyone else, my download is sitting at 99.7%. In my case---and I suspect everyone else's, too---this amounts to only one missing side: "To To Blues" on disc 2. If someone could step in long enough to seed this remaining .3%, I'd be very grateful and will happily help seed. If not, no biggie---'cause I still got a lot of Lang and Venuti for nothing. Thanks!

Mallongoon (2011-04-13)

Yeah, needs a seeder.