https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9BQUGYIyeY
#MusicOfMastodon
#ConneeBoswell
#BingCrosby
#BobWhite
#Swing
#SwingEra
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 – September 25, 1967), better known as #StuffSmith, an American #JazzViolinist is well known for the song "If You're a Viper" (You'se a Viper).
Smith was one of jazz music's preeminent #SwingEra #Violinists.
Smith was critical of the bebop movement, although his own style represented a transition between swing & bebop. He is credited as being the first #Violinist to use electric amplification techniques on a violin. #Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3zJYwy1axg
Toe-tapping tunes from the 1920s, '30s and '40s and musings of the popular culture of that era
>Noted music critic Irving Kolodin, drummer Gene Krupa, and trumpeter Harry James join Benny Goodman to share their personal recollections of the concert that Goodman initially described as a high powered publicity stunt but which became one of the greatest events in the history of jazz.