Joe Venuti
'S Wonderful: 4 Giants of Swing
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AMG Review of 'S Wonderful: 4 Giants of Swing
Scott Yanow
All Music GuideFor this session, the veteran jazz violinist Joe Venuti is teamed with a top-notch group of country players including mandolinist Jethro Burns, Curley Chalker on steel guitar and guitarist Eldon Shamblin. The repertoire is strictly jazz and these diverse players (who are backed by a conventional rhythm section) find plenty of common ground on the veteran standards, most of them from the pens of Ellington or Gershwin. Venuti sounds inspired by the unusual setting.



