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News and Articles on Joe Venuti
Remembering some great musical films Mar 9, 2008
Featuring the All-American Dance Band with Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Jack Jenny, Gene Krupa, Alvino Rey, Joe Venuti. Jam Session, headlined as The year s biggest thing in swing. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Gypsy jazz and American swing Mar 23, 2007
He later became influenced by the music of violinist Joe Venuti, jazz guitarist Eddie Lang, trumpeter Louis Armstrong and composer Duke Ellington. "Django introduced the European sensibilities and gypsy textures to American swing standards that came to define gypsy jazz or swing jazz which continues to evolve today," Sircely says. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Whitney Balliett Feb 5, 2007
Gene Bertoncini and Tommy Flanagan, Bill Coleman and Anita Ellis, Zoot Sims and Joe Venuti and Big Sid Catlett (Balliett played drums, and that great drummer may have been his God) he believed in the swinging, witty sounds they made, and kept a faith, both mystical and defiant, that their work mattered as much as that of any novelist or painter, that the air they set vibrating in a room somewhere at night would go on resonating long after the room was gone. He made sure that it did. (New Yorker)
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