[78-L] Sampson, also Nat Brusiloff

Fri May 1 20:23:36 PDT 2009

So glad the Yves mentioned the Henderson "House of David Blues" which is 
just packed solid with great solo work,  including a wonderful violin solo 
by Sampson...it's one of my very favorite records of all of Henderson's 
work.

There is a guy with the George Hall band on Bluebird and some of the Dolly 
Dawn Patrol sides who is not bad at all,  either...don't recall his name but 
he's mentioned in the notes for the Bluebird LP.

Violinist Nat Brusiloff could get going pretty well on occasion,  although 
the records I have him on are all 12" non-commercial radio disks.  They are 
one-sided, issued on the "Judson" label by the "Judson Radio Program Corp." 
The run inside-out and are mostly a little longer than three minutes.  Best 
of the three I have is Here Comes Emily Brown so I assume they all date from 
1930...anyone have any more info about these Judsons?    They look like they 
might have been pressed by Columbia...the orch. credit is Nat Brusiloff and 
his Lido Venice Orch.

He's also in one of those Rambling on Radio Row shorts,  with Jack Miller on 
piano,  and with Kate Smith.

Thanks from

Taylor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yves francois" <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jazz violin, mostly Hernan Oliva

   I saw that Michel Warlop has been mentioned (and should be mentioned more 
than Stéphane IMHO, though I think SG did age very well, like a fine wine, I 
think between playing with Shearing and playing better violins* a lot of the 
early problems seem to be eliminated), he is , along w Svend Asmussen one of 
my favorite violin players, however, we missed one on this thread Hernan 
Oliva. Oliva was in the first Aleman Quintet when he came back to Argentina 
(the second combo's violin player was not in the same class IMHO), but if 
you really want to hear some of the greatest jazz violin on record check the 
Louis Vola Quintet's from about 1945 and then the fantastic sides he 
recorded with Ahmed Ratip's band from the later 1940's. The Ratip band had 
Booker Pittman on alto sax (and some clarinet as well, though some of the 
clarinet is by Edwin Morgan, another fine jazzman), as well as Ratip's 
rather more American styled guitar work and Oliva. It is probably some
 of hardest swinging jazz recorded in Argentina, and I wonder why this music 
has not made the international reissue programs (have them on private CD's 
and also by now many of the 78's), if you can check them , great, just know 
that Oliva (and Pittman) leave by early 1949, so don't go off buying the 
last few Victor's or the TK's for them on it (though they are still good 
music, indeed one of them is an Astor Piazzolla composition). BTW Oliva 
ended up with the Chinini brothers and trumpeter Julien Roth in Jazz Casino, 
another good Argentine jazz band in the 50's , before doing smaller groups.
   Anyone likes Juice Wilson? One of my favorite records are the 2 records 
he recorded with Noble Sissle in 1929 then ... off to Malta and in the books 
(or NOT in the books sort to speak) rather like piano player Tommy Chase, 
one record and ... out (or maybe he recorded non jazz violin in some obscure 
Maltese studio, or perhaps backing some Maghreb vocalist in the 40's, I can 
fantasize, can I?). One other I did not see, Darnell Howard, sounds good in 
the early 30's Hines records ("Cavernism"), I could go on, but not every 
Edgar Sampson needs to be remembered for his violin work (though I do like 
"House Of David Blues" an excellent record all around by Henderson 1931)...
Yves Francois

* in a previous post I mentioned "Fit As A Fiddle", where a 1933 French jazz 
band (Gregor) has a violin solo that sounds midway between Warlop and 
Grappelli , general thought it that Stephen borrowed Michel's violin, for it 
has some of Michel's tone (Stéphane Grappelli  records in the 30's have a 
"thin" tone IMHO compared to Warlop, however the trio of violins w South, it 
is Warlop that is the odd man out), guess it depends on the amount of 
libation conbsumned on those sessions (I personally think Stéphane sounds 
better on the 1934/5 Ultraphones than the 1936 HMV's)

--- On Thu, 4/30/09, soundthink at aol.com <soundthink at aol.com> wrote:

> From: soundthink at aol.com <soundthink at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jazz violin
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 2:57 PM
> From me, but of course! But Inigo already weighed in on
> Venuti, so I was just trying to come up with some others he
> could consider listening to.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:06 pm
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jazz violin
>
>
>
> No love for Joe Venuti?
> On 4/30/09, soundthink at aol.com <soundthink at aol.com>
> wrote:
>  Try Michel Warlop.He played some dates with Grappelli
> & Reinhardt, but there
>  are some astoundingly terrific sides by this unheralded
> violinist.
>
>  You should also listen to some of the western swing
> violinists, such as
>  Carroll Hubbard, Cecil Brower, J.R. Chatwell, and Louis
> Tierney. All great,
>  and there were many more.
>
>  Cary Ginell
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
>  To: 78-L <78-L at 78online.com>
>  Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 1:03 pm
>  Subject: Re: [78-L] Do, Do, Do
>
>
>
>  Me...  the same... I first knew Grappelli. Great! Then I
> read about Stuff
>  mith, and I acquired a CD of Nat King Cole backed by a
> great combo, Smith
>  mong them... Great!
>  Then I read about Eddie South. I bought from Nauck the
> Victor of "La Rosita"
>  nd "Waters of Minnetonka", and I've been a
> bit dissapointed. Grappelli is
>  uch better to me.
>  There are others, of course. Venuti sounds good, but worse
> than Grappelli to
>  y ears.
>  And there are the myriad of more or less unknown violin
> players in american
>  nd british dance bands. Not unknown at all (we've g
> ot Rust and the like to
>  dentify many of them) but second row fiddlers. Some
> records by Whiteman,
>  ack Hylton and the like, feature great violin solos
> (double string playing
>  nd the like, stuff like the Stuff's one). Pity those
> solos last only a few
>  econds!
>  Inigo
>
>  ñigo Cubillo

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