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Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti New York Sessions 1926-1935 Release Date: 2003 07 22 Label: JSP The recordings of master jazz duo Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti have been compiled many times and in many ways, but never before as easily as JSP's four-disc box set The New York Sessions 1926-1935. While Mosaic still deserves pride of place for its massive set The Classic Columbia and OKeh Sessions (which doubles the number of discs), this set earns great notices because of its low price and high availability. Certainly this includes all of Lang and Venuti's best moments, most delivered under the studio rubric Joe Venuti's Blue Four -- with the help of talented friends like Adrian Rollini, Jimmy Dorsey, and Frank Signorelli. "The Blue Room," "Doin' Things," and "The Wild Dog" belied the frantic nature of much classic jazz; sides by Lang and Venuti called to mind adjectives like buoyant, pastoral, virtuosic, ones that hadn't previously been applied to recorded jazz. The New York Sessions 1926-1935 also adds many scattered sessions that didn't come out under their name, such as sidemen gigs for artists ranging from Cliff Edwards to Annette Hanshaw to bluesman Texas Alexander. Also appearing are a few excellent sides of guitar duets featuring Lonnie Johnson and Lang, who recorded under the name Blind Willie Dunn. All in all, it's a treasure trove of classic jazz for fans who've been unable to find this much material so easily. John Bush, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Black and Blue Bottom Venuti, Lang 2:49 2 Stringin' the Blues Venuti, Lang 2:39 3 Stringin' the Blues Lang, Venuti 2:52 4 Wild Cat Lang, Venuti 2:58 5 Sunshine Venuti, Lang 3:00 6 Eddie's Twister Lang 2:56 7 April Kisses Lang 3:16 8 Doin' Things Lang, Venuti 2:56 9 Goin' Places Lang, Venuti 3:00 10 Prelude Rachmaninov 3:10 11 Little Love, a Little Kiss Silesu 3:06 12 There'll Be Some Changes Made Overstreet, Higgins 2:43 13 My Syncopated Melody Man Cox, Merrie 3:23 14 I'm Somebody's Somebody Now 3:08 15 I Like What You Like 2:57 16 Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling? Ager, Yellen 3:02 17 Who-Oo? You-Oo, That's Who! 3:07 18 Under the Moon 3:25 19 Kickin' the Cat Lang, Venuti 3:11 20 Beatin' the Dog Venuti 2:41 21 Cheese and Crackers Lang, Venuti 2:56 22 Mug of Ale Venuti 2:59 23 Wringin' and Twistin' 3:03 24 Melody Man's Dream Signorelli, Lang 2:54 25 Perfect Signorelli, Lang 3:05 26 Penn Beach Blues Venuti, Lang 2:50 27 Four String Joe Lang, Venuti 2:59 28 Dinah Lewis, Akst, Young 2:55 29 Wild Dog Venuti, Lang 2:48 30 Rainbow Dreams Lang 3:00 31 Add a Little Wiggle Ager, Yellen 2:58 32 My Baby Came Home 2:49 33 From Monday On Barris, Crosby 3:02 34 Man from the South (With a Big Cigar in His Mouth) Bloom, Woods 3:00 35 Pretty Trix Lang, Venuti 3:22 36 Doin' Things Venuti, Lang 2:46 37 Wild Cat Lang, Venuti 2:25 38 My Handy Man Blake, Razaf 3:08 39 Organ Grinder's Blues 3:16 40 Good Little, Bad Little You Stept, Green 2:42 41 Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time) Shilkret, Gilbert 3:25 42 Blue Room Hart, Rodgers 3:19 43 Sensation Edwards 2:54 44 I'll Never Be the Same Malneck, Kahn, Signorelli 3:13 45 How Long, How Long Blues 2:58 46 Deck Hand Blues 2:50 47 Church Street Sobbin' Blues Nunez, Lada, Crawley 3:02 48 There'll Be Some Changes Made 3:12 49 Wild Geese Blues 3:04 50 How Much Can I Stand? Bentley 3:06 51 Work Ox Blues Alexander 3:21 52 Risin' Sun Alexander 3:27 53 Two Tone Stomp Lang, Johnson 3:07 54 Have to Change Keys (To Play These Blues) Johnson, Lang 3:06 55 Tell Me Woman Blues Alexander 2:57 56 'Frisco Bound Blues 2:58 57 St. Louis Fair Blues Alexander 2:59 58 I Am Calling Blues Alexander 3:04 59 In the Bottle Blues Williams, Lang 2:55 60 Whatya Want Me to Do? 2:55 61 My Honey's Lovin' Arms Meyer, Ruby 3:08 62 Goin' Home Bloom, Lang, Venuti 3:19 63 Jet Black Blues Johnson 3:05 64 Blue Blood Blues Johnson 3:02 65 Guitar Blues Lang, Johnson 3:13 66 Handful of Riffs Johnson, Lang 3:06 67 Blue Guitars Lang 3:12 68 Bull Frog Moan Lang, Johnson 3:13 69 Deep Minor Rhythm 3:06 70 Midnight Call Blues Johnson, Lang 3:22 71 Hot Fingers Lang, Johnson 3:04 72 Blue Room Johnson, Lang 3:10 73 Running Ragged Trumbauer, Hayton, Lang, Venuti 3:03 74 Apple Blossom Trumbauer, Venuti, Lang 3:23 75 Raggin' the Scale Claypoole 3:19 76 Put and Take Venuti 3:20 77 Wild Dog Lang, Venuti 3:06 78 Really Blue Lang, Venuti 2:40 79 I've Found a New Baby Williams, Palmer 3:11 80 Sweet Sue, Just You Harris, Young 2:51 81 Pardon Me Pretty Baby Klages, Rose 3:09 82 Little Girl Hyde, Henry 3:02 83 Little Buttercup Venuti, Signorelli, Malneck 3:14 84 Tempo De Modernage Venuti, Signorelli 3:06 85 There's No Other Girl Robinson, Davis 3:13 86 Now That I Need You You're Gone Meyer, Clarke, Leslie 3:10 87 Wolf Wobble Lang 3:03 88 To to Blues Lang, Venuti 3:18 89 Pickin' My Way Guitar Mania, Pt. 1 Lang, Kress 3:01 90 Pickin' My Way Guitar Mania, Pt. 2 Kress, Lang 2:53 91 Fit as a Fiddle 3:21 92 Baby 3:15 93 Raggin' the Scale Claypoole 3:03 94 Hey! Young Fella Fields, McHugh 3:09 95 Jig Saw Puzzle Blues Rollini, Venuti 3:26 96 Pink Elephants Woods, Dixon 3:13 97 Red Velvet Venuti, Morgan 3:21 98 Black Satin Morgan, Venuti 2:43 99 Venuti's Pagliacci No. 2 2:48 Releases: Year Type Label 2003 CD JSP

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