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Various Artists: Anthology of Swing Strings (1930s-1950s): Professor Visits Harlem or Swingin
by Andrew Velez
The strings go zing-zinging on Professor Visits Harlem. Quite unlike any other anthology you're likely to have run into of late, we're treated to three decades of jazz string ensembles, starting off “Two Violins One Siday," a group whose 1931 take on “Dinah" is very finah. It was not until the '30s that the jazz swing string ensemble really took off. The earliest example here from that period is the Bay Ensemble, with an absence of any ...
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