Verve Jazz Club - Swinging Jazz Violin

Year: 2007
Label: Universal Jazz
Catalog: 06025 1719095



The violin's an unlikely instrument for a jazz tune -- but as you'll hear in this 
set, it's one that can sound pretty darn great when handled by the right artist! 
The collection has a strong focus on European use of the violin in jazz during 
the 60s and 70s -- in a movement that took the instrument strongly past its older 
swing-based use in the US, and into hipper territory that really explored its 
sonic properties with a lot more depth! Some tunes have a rootsy feel, others are 
more open and electric -- and a good bit of this material (nearly all of it) was 
recorded for the MPS label, and benefits from both the strong production and new 
freedoms allowed to its artists.

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 1 - Stephane Grappelli - Minor Swing

 2 - Stuff Smith - April In Paris

 3 - Svend Asmussen - Praeludium II

 4 - Csaba Deseo - Makin' Whoopee

 5 - Stephane Grappelli & George Shearing - I'm Coming Virginia

 6 - Jean-Luc Ponty - Sunday Walk

 7 - Joe Venuti - After You've Gone

 8 - Svend Asmussen - Prelude For Svend

 9 - Stephane Grappelli - Tangerine

10 - Don 'Sugarcane' Harris - Third Time Suspicious

11 - Stuff Smith - Ain't She Sweet

12 - The Gypsy Jazz Violin Summit - Satin Doll

13 - Ray Nance - Some Of These Days

14 - Stephane Grappelli & George Shearing - Star Eyes

15 - Jean-Luc Ponty - Cat Coach

16 - Didier Lockwood - ADGC

17 - Zipflo Reinhardt - Light Of The Future


Original recordings - digitally remastered



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