Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Wild Cat (1930) "King Of Jazz"

From "King of Jazz" (1930)

[@gangwolflightnin6256]

I could watch this all day

[@sergito_pizarron_123]

Me too!

[@james-iw8ch]

​@@sergito_pizarron_123damn right, me too

[@rikirex2162]

E.Lang - J.Venuti // D.Reinhardt - S.Grappelli and who knows how many different versions of those KZbin less days we missed.

[@Thanks-Tokyo]

So good

[@andrea14830]

Dei veri maestri💗

[@greekflatpicker]

Like a boss!

[@Zootallures100]

Amazing

[@bbbbbbbb723]

now thats a jewel you uploaded here 👌🏻greetz from germany

[@rdehn5799]

wow, thanks!

[@ezekielduran9382]

Mother of pearl :0

[@hatruongthai7148]

Y

[@adonaiyah2196]

Ok me krabs

[@ernestoescobar1967]

I sense some proto Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli swing from this?

[@rodrigocecchetto]

Eddie Lang was a huge inspiration for Django. I guess Joe Venuti was too for S. Grappelli

[@prycerobertson4695]

@@rodrigocecchetto Grappelli and Venuti once recorded an album together, titled Venupelli Blues.

[@alansouzacruz970]

Eddie lang first guitar hero

[@hollywoodjoe123]

YES INDEED - THE INCREDIBLE 1920S GREAT GUITAR MAN - EDDIE LANG !

[@TheGurner1]

@@hollywoodjoe123 He backed Bing Crosby, the mega-star of the age ;-)

[@C.Hawkshaw]

My dad said that the mafia kicked Joe Venuti out of Chicago and thats why he got to hear him play at Vito’s, in Seattle in the … 40’s? 50’s?

[@FenceThis]

Well, around the 0:25 mark, it’s clear that Eddie isn’t playing what we hear here

[@beautypablotamarini7315]

WOW

[@gabrielluiz4652]

Um vídeo de 90 anos

[@hollywoodjoe123]

THIS here film footage - IS EARLIER THAN - DJANGO REINHARDT on guitar AND STEPHANE GRAPPELLI on VIOLIN - And somehow Django said that he never had heard of Eddie Lang or Joe Venuti - strange - ! - I also wish that there was a rhythm guitar player so that Eddie Lang could solo over the swing chord changes - There are no recordings of Eddie Lang ever doing so ! Or maybe there are somewhere ? - And not the recordings with Lonnie Johnson - I mean other recordings ! - Anyone know of any at all ?

[@TOCS94]

It seems that halfway into the 1928 recording, "I'll Never Be the Same" with Signorellei, he briefly tries to combine manouche-like rhythmic chords with melody. He seems a bit of a legend to me, like the early blues musicians that pumped out history defining art around the same time.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I don't know where you read that Django said he'd never heard of Eddie Lang... as far as I know both Reinhardt and Grappelli were huge fans of Venuti and Lang through their recordings, which were distributed in Europe. I'm pretty sure this is in several of the jazz history books we have and will go back and check. What is the source of your information?

[@mohitoness]

​@@andrewbarrett1537 it's just an urban legend posed by clueless django fans, that django never heard of Lang. also the influence is undeniable

[@FenceThis]

Django never said anything like that !

[@BrianKnightSpringtimeHomes]

Dang! Listen to Brendan Fraser tear up that fiddle!

[@prycerobertson4695]

😆

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SMOKIN"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Moodymongul]

Django Reinhardt down voted this video!

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[@mamarremamarremamarremamar4092]

In color!?

[@oldtoby9377]

Yes. As mentioned in the description above, this is an excerpt from King of Jazz, which was originally shot in two-strip Technicolor. From the looks of it, the uploader seems to have used the restored version.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I think the two strips are red and green, which you can probably tell. I guess this was state of the art at the time.

[@sambac2053]

why not the whole tune?

[@bessjazz]

This is the whole tune !

[@sambac2053]

Sorry, butnit is not the whole tune, here's the whole tune :m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnKspKGAe5Z4fM0

[@bessjazz]

@@sambac2053 This is the whole tune in "King of Jazz" movie.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

This is a segment / part of the whole long Paul Whiteman "King of Jazz" 1930 color movie which is titled "The Boys in the Band" and features several of the different musicians each doing like a little 30-second or so speciality in 'round robin' fashion. That is the way the scene was designed and shot. It's not just Venuti and Lang that only get 'bite size' showcases, but nearly everyone gets a 'bite size' showcase as just a little 'teaser'. We get pianist Roy Bargy playing just one chorus of "Nola" with a little bow at the end, Wilbur Hall playing "Nola" as a TROMBONE SOLO (because he could!), we hear from Chester Hazlett on his well known sub-tone clarinet, we get to hear the entire violin section play a section soli to showcase their artistry, and I think a couple others (maybe Charlie Goldfield on trumpet?), before banjoist Mike Pingitore finishes the segment with, I *think* "Linger Awhile" in a very rambunctious banjo rendition. You can find most of these clips, or the entire segment, online if you search for "The King of Jazz" "The boys in the band".

[@andrewbarrett1537]

As Eddie Lang died so soon after this, we are extremely lucky to see and hear him in one or two other movies, especially the movie where he accompanies Ruth Etting in 1932 or so. Sound movies were just getting started, but despite Eddie Lang being nearly a superstar at the time (within musical circles), he was very much a "musician's musician" and a very quiet, softspoken man who was nearly the opposite of the loud, gregarious practical joker that was Joe Venuti. Probably both due to Lang's shyness and also due to the fact he didn't sing (unlike other early guitarists who WERE superstars like Nick Lucas), meant that although sound movies were just starting, he barely made it into them at all. We are fortunate he did, as numerous other great musicians of this era NEVER got captured on film, although they lived long enough that it COULD have happened. Joe Venuti was fortunate (well, not fortunate according to Joe who missed Eddie terribly) enough to outlive Eddie Lang by decades and so there's much more movie / TV footage of him later in life into the 1970s.