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Svend Asmussen

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Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017) was a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". [1]

77 relations: A&M Records, Alice Babs, All About Jazz, AllMusic, Angel Records, Arbors Records, Atlantic Records, Benny Goodman, Bent Fabric, Billed Bladet, Centenarian, Claus Asmussen, Collectables Records, Copenhagen, Dacapo Records, David Grisman, Denmark, Discogs, Doctor Jazz, Dronningmølle, Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session, Ed Thigpen, EMI, EMI Records, Epic Records, Eric Ericson, European Encounter, Fats Waller, Jan Johansson (jazz musician), Jazz, Jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark, Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Venuti, John Lewis (pianist), Josephine Baker, Kenny Drew, Kjeld Bonfils, L. Subramaniam, Lionel Hampton, Made in Sweden (band), Monterey Jazz Festival, MPS Records, Music hall, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Odeon Records, Parlophone, Philips Records, Politiken, Polydor Records, ..., Putte Wickman, Ray Nance, RCA Records, SABA (electronics manufacturer), Scandinavia, Shu-bi-dua, Sonet Records, Stéphane Grappelli, Storyville Records, Stuff Smith, Summit (groups), Sveriges Radio, Telefunken, Teresa Brewer, The Wall Street Journal, Toots Thielemans, Ulf Wakenius, Ulrik Neumann, Universal Music Group, Valdemar Eiberg, Vibraphone, Victoria Records, Violin, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Music Sweden, World War II, YouTube. Expand index (27 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Alice Babs

Alice Babs (born Hildur Alice Nilson; 26 January 1924 – 11 February 2014) was a Swedish singer and actress.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Angel Records

Angel Records was a record label founded by EMI in 1953.

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Arbors Records

Arbors Records is a record company and independent record label in Clearwater, Florida.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Bent Fabric

Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (born 7 December 1924), better known internationally as Bent Fabric, is a Danish pianist and composer.

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Billed Bladet

Billed Bladet is a Danish language weekly entertainment and royal magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years.

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Claus Asmussen

Claus Asmussen (born 12 February 1949 in Copenhagen) is a Danish musician (guitar), actor and composer, the son of jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, and a central member of the Danish pop bands 'Emanuel D.P.', 'Sir Henry & His Butlers' (1965–80) and The 'Shu-Bi-Dua' (1974–2005).

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Collectables Records

Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.

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Dacapo Records

Dacapo Records is a Danish classical music and new music record label.

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David Grisman

David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Doctor Jazz

"Doctor Jazz" is a popular tune and song written by Joe "King" Oliver in 1926.

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Dronningmølle

Dronningmølle is a seaside resort town in Esbønderup parish, Gribskov Municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark, of eastern Denmark.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session

Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in 1963 but not released on the Atlantic label until 1976.

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Ed Thigpen

Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Eric Ericson

Eric Gustaf Ericson (26 October 1918 – 16 February 2013) was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher.

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European Encounter

European Encounter is an album by American pianist and composer John Lewis and Danish violinist Svend Asmussen recorded for the Atlantic label in 1962.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Jan Johansson (jazz musician)

Jan Johansson (16 September 1931 – 9 November 1968) was a Swedish jazz pianist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz collections at the University Library of Southern Denmark

The Music Department at the University Library of Southern Denmark (SDUB) in Odense has through donations and acquisitions since 1997 achieved the status of research archive of specialised jazz studies.

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer.

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Joe Venuti

Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (possibly September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.

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John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent.

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Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew (August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993) was an American jazz pianist.

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Kjeld Bonfils

Kjeld Bonfils (August 23, 1918 in Copenhagen – October 13, 1984) was a Danish jazz pianist and vibraphone player.

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L. Subramaniam

Pandit Dr.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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Made in Sweden (band)

Made in Sweden was a Swedish jazz-rock supergroup active from 1968 to 1977.

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Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), in Monterey, California, is one of the world's longest consecutively running jazz festivals.

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MPS Records

MPS Records was a German jazz record company and label founded in 1968 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (27 May 1946 – 19 April 2005), often known as NHØP, was a Danish jazz upright bassist known for his technique and musical approach.

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Odeon Records

Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips.

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Politiken

Politiken is a leading Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Putte Wickman

Putte Wickman (10 September 1924 – 14 February 2006) was one of the world's leading jazz clarinetists.

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Ray Nance

Ray Willis Nance (December 10, 1913, in Chicago – January 28, 1976, in New York City) was a jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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SABA (electronics manufacturer)

SABA (Schwarzwälder Apparate-Bau-Anstalt) is a German electronics company founded in 1923 at Triberg im Schwarzwald (Black Forest), present-day Baden-Württemberg.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Shu-bi-dua

Shu•bi•dua or Shu-bi-dua is a Danish pop group which was formed in 1973 in Copenhagen with an expansion of the group Passport.

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Sonet Records

Sonet Records is a jazz/pop record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

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Storyville Records

Storyville Records is an international record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music.

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Stuff Smith

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist.

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Summit (groups)

The Summit format is used in jazz to bring together performers on a particular musical instrument.

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Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB ("Swedish Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster.

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Telefunken

Telefunken was a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) (General electricity company).

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Teresa Brewer

Teresa Brewer (May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style incorporated country, jazz, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian-American jazz musician.

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Ulf Wakenius

Ulf Karl Erik Wakenius (born 16 April 1958) is a Swedish jazz guitarist, known as a member of Oscar Peterson's last quartet from 1997.

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Ulrik Neumann

Ulrik Neumann (23 October 1918 – 28 June 1994) was a Danish film actor and musician.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Valdemar Eiberg

Valdemar Eiberg (August 23, 1892 – July 4, 1965) was a Danish jazz musician.

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Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also known as the vibraharp or simply the vibes) is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family.

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Victoria Records

Victoria Records was the name of record labels.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Warner Music Sweden

Warner Music Sweden (previously Metronome Records) is a Swedish record company and label, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svend_Asmussen

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