[78-L] Jazz violin

[warren moorman]

Another very fine late period Johnny Frigo fiddle recording worth getting is the 1995 cd "Quintet Du Hot Club De Concord", on Concord. And I presume those interested in jazz fiddle already know about Anthony Barnett's exemplary jazz violin reissue label, abfable. The fact that country fiddlers often swung more than they get credit for is exemplified by Harold Hensley, whose career stretched from the oldtime mountain music festival at Whitetop, Va. in 1933, to west coast swing with the likes of Jimmy Bryant; those two can be heard in a jam with Stuff Smith on an abfable cd.

Warren    

--- On Thu, 4/30/09, JD <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> From: JD <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jazz violin
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 1:37 PM
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> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:35:12 -0400
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> > Subject: [78-L] Jazz violin
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> One of the great jazz fiddlers has to be the late John
> Frigo from Chicago. 
> He played the violin like a jazz horn and not
> "cutsey" like some of the 
> others and  was also an excellent (upright) bassist. I
> first heard him in 
> late 1955 at the Cloisters (IIRC) in Chicago in pianist
> Dick Marx's duo. 
> There two excellent (possibly now somewhat rare) LPs by him
> which are well 
> worth seeking out for jazz fiddle enthusiasts: " I
> LOVE JOHN FRIGO, HE 
> SWINGS" (Mercury MG 20285, Frigo quintet  with Marx on
> piano) and "TOO MUCH 
> PIANO" (Dick Marx duo, BRUNSWICK BL 54006).). There is
> also a more recent 
> (1988) Chesky CD (Chesky JD1), "JOHN FRIGO WITH BUCKY
> AND JOHN PIZZARELLI."
> 
> As for country fiddling, other than realizing that when
> done right it can 
> really swing and is a jazz of sorts, I plead almost total
> ignorance save for 
> a guest appearance on one of the morning shows perhaps
> three plus decades 
> ago by Clark Kessinger. He knocked me out & I
> immediately bought his 
> Folkways LP "CLARK KESSINGER, FIDDLER." (FOLKWAYS
> FA2336). As Duke said, 
> "There are only two kinds of music....."
> JD
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