Shrdlu Posted December 18, 2019 Report Share Posted December 18, 2019 Recently, the 1966 Violin Summit came to mind. I'm not big on violin, but this is an excellent session and deserves to be better-known. You don't hear about it much. It features Stéphane Grapelly, Svend Asmussen (from Denmark), Stuff Smith and that French sensation of the electric violin, Jean-Luc Ponty. They program most of it with only two at a time. It is all very enjoyable, but Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, on bass, steals the show, especially on "It Don't Mean A Thing". He is recorded high up in the mix. Kenny Drew is on piano, and Alex Riel is on drums. It is from a festival in Switzerland (I don't remember where), on September 30, 1966. It came out on the MPS label. I hope you are able to hear it. There are some details here https://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.net/3137713478-stuff-smith-violin-summit-1966-2015-hi-res.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 13 hours ago, Shrdlu said: There are some details here https://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.net/3137713478-stuff-smith-violin-summit-1966-2015-hi-res.html Original link was to a DL site of at best questionable legitimacy and has been edited (by me) so as to now be unusable. Please be careful going forth, ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 I think this record was still quite popular when I was Young. There was also a later Version called "New Violin Summit". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 I have both LPs, the latter, of course, is two LPs. I also have a recording somewhere in my digital files of Svend Asmussen, Jean-Luc Ponty and Ray Nance playing together, it may have come from an archive.com video at Monterey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 I like New Violin Summit quite a bit, with Ponty, Sugarcane Harris, and Michael Urbaniak. Have never heard the 1966 Summit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted December 20, 2019 Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 Here is the link to the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival NET television broadcast that I discussed earlier: https://archive.org For some reason, my computer is not copying the complete link to the exact page, so search for: Monterey Jazz Festival 1967 - N.E.T. Festival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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