[78-L] Jazz Violin.

[Spats]

Actually, I'm not sure that this is so.
Perhaps on RECORD, but I believe that there were string bands playing 
early Jazz in New Orleans in the time of Buddy Bolden. No?

Darnell Howard would have come out of that tradition, methinks.

Earl.

At 8:53 pm -0700 22/10/2008, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>Both Grappely(sp?) and Venuti were "makin' it up as they went along"...since
>NO ONE prior to them had thought of using the violin as an improvisational
>"jazz instrument" rather than obediently playing the supplied score for
>"Beethoven's Second Movement From Ex-Lax" (or wotever?!).
>
>Given the choice, I personally prefer (not for arguable,
>musically-explicable
>reasons...?!) Joe Venuti to Grappely, Eddie South, the anonymous violinist
>in 1929-32 Ted Lewis recordings, or other jazz violinists or wannabes
>thereof! Check out the "Lang-Venuti All-Stars" recordings (I bought both...
>was actually given them as part of a deal...WELL before I knew their
>musical (and, possibly, cash?!) value...!
>
>...stevenc