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By the way, potential ARSC Journal article -- was Venuti really the pioneer of using a violin in jazz music? His first recording was in 1926, a good bit after jazz music had bubbled up in New Orleans. Fiddle players were all over the south, so did someone else put a fiddle with jazz music earlier? And record it? -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] A Labor of Love > Dave, > > Dumb question I asked about the Mosaic box, it's right there in your references! > > Good job, very thorough. You got the Grand Award recordings, which were made at Fine Sound. The > Whiteman Orchestra reunion album is really neat. I can't understand why there was no interest in > reissuing it back when MCA was dipping into the Kapp, GA and Command catalogs occasionally, in the > early CD days. A reissue now would be a low-quality dub from an LP because the master tape likely > burned up on the Hollywood film lot a few years ago. > > I like your introduction, too. Venuti is somewhat forgotten today, compared to Stephane Grappelli. > > -- Tom Fine > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 11:02 AM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] A Labor of Love > > >> Indeed, that was a major part of the challenge. The Wikipedia guidelines to >> do not make easy, or even permit, traditional discography. I suspect that >> is as the guidelines were developed >> by users who have a skewed idea of what a discography is, or no idea of the >> real thing. So I wanted to see just how close I could get to "real" within >> their guidelines. >> >> thank you, >> >> Dave Lewis >> Hamiton, OH >> >> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:33 AM, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Good work, Dave! And it's great that you included a real discography. >>> >>> Best, >>> John Haley >>> >>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 9:59 AM, David Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> > I started this page June 28, 2011. Today I finally got it into the >>> > formatting that Wikipedia expects for discographies. I don't personally >>> own >>> > more than a couple of Joe Venuti records, but I wanted to know what was >>> out >>> > there, hence the interest. I like it, as it is constructed for use in the >>> > field, though Wikipedia took down my cover image as it bore an (expired) >>> > copyright notice on the cover art. I'll have to find other images to use. >>> > >>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Venuti_discography >>> > >>> > Enjoy! >>> > >>> > David N. Lewis >>> > Hamiton, OH >>> > >>> >> >> > >