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    Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist. Considered the father of jazz violin...
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  • Joe Venuti, regarded by some as the Father of Jazz Violin, enjoyed a recording career under his own billing that stretched from 1926 to 1978. Besides momentary...
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  • duets with guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Carl Kress and jazz violinist Joe Venuti, and played rhythm guitar in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and was the favoured...
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  • Venuti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Joe Venuti (1903–1978), American jazz musician Lawrence Venuti (born 1953), American translator...
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    with a handful of other musical partners including Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Venuti, and Jimmy Rowles. In 1975, he began recording for Norman Granz's Pablo...
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    musicians such as Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols and Joe Venuti. He also became friendly with Bing Crosby, then a member of The Rhythm...
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    was eleven, he heard some records with Bix Beiderbecke that featured Joe Venuti and knew then that he wanted to be a jazz musician. He had become accomplished...
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    grew up listening to the music of jazz musicians such as Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Belgian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and 1930s–40s groups such as...
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    New Yorker. The band also included guitarist Eddie Lang and violinist Joe Venuti, who had often recorded on a freelance basis with the Goldkette Orchestra...
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  • guitarist, singer, and record producer Joe Venuti (1903–1978), American jazz musician and pioneer jazz percussionist Joe Walsh (born 1947), American rock guitarist...
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  • Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Frank Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Lang, and Joe Venuti. The Victor Recording Orchestra won the respect of the Fletcher Henderson...
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    the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang (both are seen and heard in the film), Bix Beiderbecke...
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  • the 1950s. Among the musicians in his band were the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Bunny Berigan, and Benny Goodman. In the early 1930s, Elmer Feldkamp...
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    bandleader Paul Whiteman and jazz violinist Joe Venuti were performing there. Jazz violinists were rare, and though Venuti played mainly commercial jazz themes...
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    musicians of their day—the Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, Artie Shaw, Victor Young, Bunny Berigan—had a profound...
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    especially during recording sessions (e.g.) Tommy Dorsey, Morton Downey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Artie Shaw, Jack Teagarden, Red Nichols, Libby Holman, Gertrude...
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  • Jimmy Maelen - percussion Ernie Watts - saxophone Max Kaminsky - trumpet Joe Venuti - violin Rudy Toth - dulcimer Brooks Hunnicutt, Dennis Tufano - backing...
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  • 1348 Joe Venuti 1933 1349 Willie "The Lion" Smith 1950 1350 Duke Ellington 1952–53 1351 Georgie Auld 1945–46 1352 Louis Armstrong 1952–53 1353 Joe Sullivan...
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    "Fiddler" Williams, who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy. Joe Venuti was best known for his work with guitarist Eddie Lang during the 1920s...
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    Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby (Bing's brother), Desi Arnaz...
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    Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; and Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Joe Venuti was popular for his work with guitarist Eddie Lang during the 1920s. Improvising...
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  • Eddie Lang and violinist Joe Venuti. They first recorded it in New York, January 24, 1927. It is a showcase piece for Venuti's talent as a violinist. His...
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    as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, and Lonnie Johnson. (The swinging sound of Venuti's jazz violin and Eddie Lang's virtuoso...
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    and Joe Venuti on violin, recorded two sides for Brunswick, "Red Velvet" and "Black Satin". Most of the songs were written by Morgan and Venuti. Morgan's...
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  • as Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, and Joe Venuti. In 1924, Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, which...
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    Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were the first musicians to incorporate the guitar and violin into jazz...
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    Up! (Columbia, recorded 1951–1953, released 1958) Hi-Fi Lootin' with Joe Venuti (Design, 1958) Entertains (Rondo-Lette, 1959) Strictly Prima! (Capitol...
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  • Italian-American violinist Joe Venuti, the trumpeter's only true friend and therefore unique in knowing the truth and the identity of the girl. Venuti, despite the...
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    Tony Bennett (redirect from Joe Bari)
    as well as jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, and Joe Venuti. His uncle Dick was a tap dancer in vaudeville, giving him an early window...
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    Bubber Miley, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Gene Krupa) on May 21, 1930. After the October 1929 stock market...
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