User: 240252 | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Eddie Lang, guitar - Eddie's Twister, Okeh 1927 Who was better? Eddie Lang or Django?... And - are we right to ask such question: "who was better?"... They both were absolute geniuses of that small instrument, of a guitar...
User: pixaninny | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am In this precious fragment, jazz guitar pioneer Eddie Lang and partner Joe Venuti chase out a 'Wild Cat'.
User: nusound | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Jazz great, Howard Alden, talks about jazz guitar legend, Eddie Lang, of Philadelphia. A George Manney film. Copyright 2009 Philly Pop Music. www.PhillyPopMusic.com Visit Howard online at www.howardalden.com Alden was featured on the Woody Allen film soundtrack, "Sweet and Lowdown" where Howard taught Sean Penn to play guitar for the film. Penn's character is based around that of Django Reinhardt. In this clip, Howard is playing a custom made Manouche guitar. http
User: cox1356 | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am ... was an American jazz guitarist. Lang also played under the name Blind Willie Dunn on a number of blues records with Lonnie Johnson.
User: harryoakley | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Excerpt from "The Big Broadcast of 1932" with Bing Crosby singing and scatting "Dinah" and "Please" with guitar accompaniment by Eddie Lang. Lennie Hayton is audible on piano.
User: edmundusrex | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Joe Venuti was born on a ship on the way to the USA from Italy and became, in many circles, THE great jazz violinist. Eddie Lang (who was also known as Blind Willie Dunn) was a boyhood friend of Venuti, and was the first great jazz guitarist. Lang died in 1933 as the result of a botched tonsillectomy, which operation had been taken at the urging of his friend, Bing Crosby.
User: edmundusrex | November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (Sept.16,1903 - Aug.14,1978) was a US jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist. Venuti claimed to have been born aboard a ship as his parents emigrated from Italy, though many believe he was simply born in Philadelphia. Later in life he said that he was born in Italy in 1896 and that he came to the US in 1906. Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the guitarist Eddie Lang, a childhood friend of his. Through the 1920s and early 1930s, Venuti made many recordings, as leader...
