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Jazz Violin

By Peter Sellars
February 15, 2011
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A playlist from one of the sessions we discussed at our weekly U3A jazz appreciation sessions here in Bethnal Green, London. And incidentally an illustration of the vibrancy of the jazz violin tradition.

Track	Name	Time	Artist	Album
1	Humoresque (1943)	2:34	Stuff Smith	Time And Again
2	Take the "A" Train	3:55	Joe Venuti And Dave McKenna	Alone At the Palace
3	Yellow House Stomp	2:38	Stephane Grappelli	Early American & European Bebop Violin
4	A Woman's Place Is In The Groove	2:38	Ginger Smock	Early American & European Bebop Violin
5	Improvisation J.S. Bach Part 2—Double Violin	3:19	Eddie South	Swing Time—The World's Greatest Jazz Collection 1933-1957: Vol. 48
6	Pent-Up House	3:30	Stephane Grappelli	Django
7	Nothing Personal	4:22	John Etheridge, Christian Garrick	Chasing Shadows
8	Softly As in a Morning Sunrise	6:55	Kenny Barron & Regina Carter	Freefall
9	All The Things You Are	3:37	Didier Lockwood	Tribute to Stephane Grappelli
10	Satin Doll	4:21	Jean-Luc Ponty	Jazz in Paris: Jean-Luc Ponty—Jazz Long Playing
11	Bag's Groove	9:33	Nigel Kennedy	Nigel Kennedy Plays Jazz

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Photo Credit

Allan Warren

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