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Svend Asmussen: Embraceable
by Chris Mosey
In 1987 when he was a young man of 70, Svend Asmussen played a gig in a small club in Paris. This year, on the eve of his 100th birthday, the Danish violinist rediscovered a tape made of the evening for a Parisian radio station. He says: “I assumed it would be just another radio show ...
Final Call to See "Pops" Making Records
by Fradley Garner
Final Call to See “Pops" Making Records September, 2012 is final call to catch Genius at Work: Louis Armstrong in the Recording Studio, the currently featured exhibit at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in Corona, Queens, New York. “Records as well as photographs, scores and other artifacts reveal Armstrong hard at work recording ...
Andrew Swift: Swift Kick
by C. Michael Bailey
Drummer Andrew Swift belongs to a new generation of jazz artists that includes trumpeter Ryan Kisor and multi-instrumentalists Sharel Cassity and Michael Dease, all of whom join Swift on his debut recording, Swift Kick. These young artists are all well trained and steeped in tradition. However, tradition does not own their collective souls. All compose with ...
Svend Asmussen
by Ken Dryden
Svend Asmussen is the last of the great swing violinists who emerged during the '30s. The “Fiddling Viking" turns 94 on Feb. 28th, splitting time between his native Denmark and Sarasota, Florida. Recently the violinist performed at the Second Annual Arbors Records Invitational Jazz Party and released new CDs, one a compilation on Storyville (Rhythm Is ...
Rhythm Is Our Business
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Rhythm Is Our Business; Panhandle Pete; Be My Life's Companion; Ellington Mood; Svend's Riff; Someone To Watch Over Me; Darktown Strutters' Ball; Schöner Gigolo; Cotton Tail; Indian Summer; After You've Gone; When You're Smiling; Moonglow; Carry Me Back To Old Virginny; Fiddler In Rio/Umbrigado; Jeepers Creepers; Svend's Blues; Poor Butterfly; Georgia Camp Meeting; Hallelujah; Honeysuckle Rose; How About You?; Jazz Me Blues.
Svend Asmussen: Rhythm Is Our Business
by Chris Mosey
Once, as they were jamming, Duke Ellington's drummer Sam Woodyard called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, “Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naïvely innocent wit so typical of his homeland, “From now on then my name is only Mussen." There is just one ...
Fiddling Around
Label: Imogena
Released: 2008
Track listing: Alabama Barbecue; Cherokee; Fiddler in Rio; Stardust; Calypso Columbo; Take Off Blues; Nackens Polska; You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me; Chanson Triste; The Little Mermaid; Fat Tuesday Rag; Tripple Trouble; Brother Can You Spare a Dime?; Swing Manouche; Batida Differente; June Night.
Svend Asmussen: Fiddling Around
by Chris Mosey
While striving to avoid clichés like the plague, there seems only one way to describe Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen: he is still going strong. At the age of 92, “the fiddling Viking" is embarking on a 2008 tour of Scandinavia. Fiddling Around, recorded when he was a mere slip of a lad, age 77, has ...
In Copenhagen 1973-74
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Resource: 01. St. Louis Blues (C. Handy) - 9:11; 02. Delsbo Waltz (tradizionale) - 6:05; 03. Resource (E. Thigpen) - 7:19; 04.
The Spirit Feel (Jackson) - 9:22; 05. Tuxedo Junction (Hawkins)- 9:27.
Ed Thigpen's Action-re-Action: 01. House Of Poets (Mikkelborg) - 14:00; 02. Danish Drive (Vinding) - 6:08; 03.
Action-Re-Action (Thigpen/Mikkelborg) - 18.04.
Ed Thigpen: In Copenhagen 1973-74
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da poco ristampati in un unico CD, i due dischi non rendono giustizia alla sopraffina cifra tecnica del batterista Ed Thigpen, storico componente dell’Oscar Peterson Trio. Anzi il suo impeccabile drumming, che diviene eccelso nell’uso delle spazzole, è svilito da queste incisioni risalenti agli inizi degli anni ’70, quando ebbe inizio il suo soggiorno scandinavo. Nella ...
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