{"id":7377,"date":"2016-02-28T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2016-02-29T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:02:38","slug":"svend-asmussen-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/02\/svend-asmussen-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Svend Asmussen, 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/S.-Asmussen.jpg\" alt=\"S. Asmussen\" width=\"220\" height=\"140\" \/>Today is the 100th birthday of the great Danish violinist Svend Asmussen. Without going into the details of Asmussen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long, varied and influential career, let us simply recognize him as one of the handful (or fewer) of violinists who in the 1930s proved their instrument capable of swing and emotional expression at the highest jazz level. He may well be the only man alive who played with Fats Waller, Django Reinhardt, St\u00c3\u00a9phane Grappelli, Stuff Smith and Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<p>Our first clip is of Asmussen, Alice Babs and guitarist Ulrik Neumann, who were known as the Swe-danes, performing a piece that was a hit in Scandinavia for years. They thrived in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UZ1oRt24T4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the next video, we find Asmussen in 1986 at the Club Montmartre in Copenhagen. His accompanists are Kenny Drew, piano; Niels-Henning \u00c3\u02dcrsted Pedersen, bass; and Ed Thigpen, drums. The piece is by Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lC7hHgHUWlk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Sven Bjerstedt of Lund University in Malm\u00c3\u00b6, Sweden, for the reminder about Asmussen&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th birthday of the great Danish violinist Svend Asmussen. Without going into the details of Asmussen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long, varied and influential career, let us simply recognize him as one of the handful (or fewer) of violinists who in the 1930s proved their instrument capable of swing and emotional expression at the highest jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}