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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 ...
Still Fiddling
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Best Things In Life Are Free; How Deep Is The Ocean; My Yiddish Momme; Silly Shuffle; Jeg Elsker Jig; Down South Camp Meeting; My Man Is Gone Now; Hallelujah; Sermon For Stuff; It Had To Be You; Shalom Elechem; Memories Of You. (Total Time: 73:53).
Svend Asmussen: Still Fiddling
by C. Michael Bailey
The Danish Gypsy Soul of Svend Asmussen... Svend Asmussen is an 86-year-old Dane who has been sawing on his fiddle since the mid-1930s. Listening to Still Fiddling one would never know Asmussen was 86, but one would surmise he has 60 plus years of experience doing what he does. Asmussen has played and recorded with the ...
Live In Concert: Fit As A Fiddle
Label: Dacapo Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Running Wild, Bye Bye Blackbird, Take Off Blues, I Loves You Porgy, Wrapping It Up, Groove Merchant, Latino, Columbine Polka Mazurka, The Mooch, Prelude to a Kiss, Night In Tunsia.
Svend Asmussen Quartet: Live In Concert: Fit As A Fiddle
by C. Michael Bailey
Fiddlin' Around. The violin has a long and prominent tradition in jazz, starting with the swing of Stuff Smith through the fusion of Michael Urbaniak. Svend Asmussen shares the page in the jazz style book between Smith and Stephane Grappelli. He recorded his first sides in 1935 and became widely popular in his native Denmark. He ...
