[78-L] Joe Venuti Discography Wiki

[David Lennick]

GREAT record..titled "Skeletons At Midnight" on the 78 issue.
Joe Venuti and Bobby Maxwell (Tempo TT-2236)
Joe Venuti, violin and Bobby Maxwell, harp; Recorded ca. 1949
-- Dance macabre (with Brother Bones) --

(Hm, what compilation of mine? Don't mind me, I've done a few thousand of these 
things since 1988, but did I do a Venuti?)

dl

On 6/28/2011 12:17 AM, David Lewis wrote:
>
> Mr. Lennick wrote:
> There IS a discography published by the Charles Garrod, but I found a number of
> things missing from it such as Joe's incredibly corny soupy swoopy violin
> playing on the Don Blandings album on Tempo. But it's here if any more info is
> wanted.
>
>>>>
> Sure, I would be gratified to learn more about the Tempo albums, and I appreciate
> the offer. Most of the data I was able to gather about them was through OHIOLINK
> and only very sketchy entries (from BGSU if I recall), though admittedly the albums
> themselves don't say much. The only Tempo LP I've ever owned was the Doc Evans one.
>
> One Tempo track I'd LOVE to hear -- indeed, the main one of Venuti that I know only
> through collecting this data -- is this entry:
>
> Joe Venuti and Bobby Maxwell (Tempo TT-2236)
> Joe Venuti, violin and Bobby Maxwell, harp; Recorded ca. 1949
>
> -- Dance macabre (with Brother Bones) --
>
> You're right about Joe's tone; though he was a little younger than Jascha Heifitz,
> he had nothing of that lean, mean yet subtly expressive approach. When it came to
> portamenti, Joe was of the old school. If your ears are attuned to saxophones and
> trumpets, it doesn't sound so hot. But if you play the violin -- and I don't but I
> have many friends who do -- you like it.
>
> Joe's more sentimental streak does not sit well with more jazz oriented listeners.
> I think "Apple Blossoms" is absolutely essential to the Blue Four literature and
> represents a very different wrinkle in the 1920s, exemplifying a kind of "cool"
> approach for that time. But on single disc packages it is often left off in favor
> of hotter stuff; it wasn't even included on the "Stringing the Blues" LP on Columbia.
>
> I was even a little surprised at some of the material left off the Mosaic set that was
> well within the compass of what they were striving for, although I understand that they
> weren't able to obtain good copies of certain things. And Mr. Lennick, I must say that
> your particular single-disc compilation has about the best selection that I can imagine,
> and I'm sorry it cannot be offered within in my borders. I did get the ASV Wild Cats at
> one point, but couldn't handle the artificial reverb. So I gave it to my late mother,
> and she was crazy about it.
> Uncle Dave Lewis
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