Jazz Guitar Virtuoso (1989) ( )

Product Summary Label: Yazoo UPC: 00016351015921 Release Date: 2/22/1991 Buy.com Sku: 60044140 Item#: M96LJ7 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Prelude ~ Eddie Lang 2. Pickin' My Way ~ Eddie Lang 3. Rainbow Dreams ~ Eddie Lang 4. Blue Guitars ~ Eddie Lang 5. April Kisses ~ Eddie Lang 6. I'll Never Be The Same ~ Eddie Lang 7. Blue Room ~ Eddie Lang 8. Eddie's Twister ~ Eddie Lang 9. Midnight Call Blues ~ Eddie Lang 10. Perfect ~ Eddie Lang 11. Little Love, A Little Kiss, A ~ Eddie Lang 12. Melody Man's Dream ~ Eddie Lang 13. Feeling My Way ~ Eddie Lang 14. Church Street Sobbin' Blues ~ Eddie Lang   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Eddie Lang (guitar); Eddie Lang; Justin Ring (chimes); Lonnie Johnson, Carl Kress (guitar); Frank Signorelli, Rube Bloom, Arthur Schutt (piano). Liner Note Authors: Steve Calt; Stephen Calt. Recording information: 04/01/1927-01/15/1932. Active throughout the 1920s and '30s until his tragic death following a botched tonsillectomy, Eddie Lang, the first bona fide jazz guitar virtuoso, had a background in a wide range of musical genres, as this brief best-of attests. Beginning with a fragment of a Bach prelude, he breezes through the hot jazz of "Pickin' My Way," the sentimental "April Kisses," the bluesy "Eddie's Twister," and the delicately romantic "A Little Love, a Little Kiss," both solo and accompanied by his fellow guitarist, the equally talented and legendary Lonnie Johnson. Musical Guests Lonnie Johnson   Artist Overview Lang's playing appeared on more recordings than any other single guitarist in the 1920s. His fluid style was dazzlingly inventive and can be traced through the history of the electric guitar, with players like T-Bone Walker and Jimi Hendrix owing him a debt. Who knows what the groundbreaking guitarist might have accomplished had he not perished during a routine operation in 1933 at age 30. Artist Influences Joe Venuti | Lonnie Johnson | Teddy Bunn Artist Contemporaries Bix Beiderbecke | Carl Kress | Lonnie Johnson | Roy Smeck Artist Followers Charlie Christian | Django Reinhardt | Les Paul   Compilation Appearances Legendary Jazz Guitarists: 1927-1941 Progressions:100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Jazz Modernists:1924-1933   Associated Artists and Works Venuti, Joe Venuti, Joe Stringing The Blues ~ Venuti, Joe Venuti, Joe Venuti, Joe   Technical Info Release Date : 02/27/1990 Original Release Date : 1989 Catalog ID : 1059 Label : Yazoo Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mono SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016351015921    Product Image