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Joe Venuti

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,057

2,096
Decades
- 1920s
  
  of 19
  
  18
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  0
- 2000s
  
  of 10,573
  
  0
Genres
- Jazz
  
  of 1,946
  
  369
- Pop
  
  of 13,671
  
  2,477

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1920s

2.2056

1990s

0.0000

2000s

0.0000

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Joe Venuti is ranked overall as 2.1055 out of 4 stars

2.1055

Joe Venuti Biography

Formed:

September 1903

Disbanded:

August 1978

Genres:

Jazz, Pop, Blues

Labels:

Allegro Corporation, Classics, Classics French, Flying Fish/rounder, Iajrc, Naxos Records, Yazoo

History:

Although renowned as one of the world's great practical jokers (he once called a couple dozen bass players with an alleged gig and asked them to show up with their instruments at a busy street corner just so he could view the resulting chaos), Joe Venuti's real importance to jazz is as improvised music's first great violinist. He was a boyhood friend of Eddie Lang (jazz's first great guitarist) and the duo teamed up in a countless number of settings during the second half of the 1920s, ...more

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