[78-L] Do, Do, Do

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "I. Cubillo" <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
> Me...  the same... I first knew Grappelli. Great! Then I read about Stuff
> Smith, and I acquired a CD of Nat King Cole backed by a great combo, Smith
> among them... Great!
> Then I read about Eddie South. I bought from Nauck the Victor of "La 
> Rosita"
> and "Waters of Minnetonka", and I've been a bit dissapointed. Grappelli is
> much better to me.
> There are others, of course. Venuti sounds good, but worse than Grappelli 
> to
> my ears.
> And there are the myriad of more or less unknown violin players in 
> american
> and british dance bands. Not unknown at all (we've got Rust and the like 
> to
> identify many of them) but second row fiddlers. Some records by Whiteman,
> Jack Hylton and the like, feature great violin solos (double string 
> playing
> and the like, stuff like the Stuff's one). Pity those solos last only a 
> few
> seconds!
>
There also is/was a VERY good jazz violinist on several of the early
thirties Ted Lewis Columbias...!!

...syevenc