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". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the greats of Jazz, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. He played publicly until 2010 when he had a blood clot, his career having spanned eight decades.

Asmussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, raised in a musical family, and started taking violin lessons at the age of 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin great Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style. He started working professionally as a violinist, vibraphonist, and singer at age 17, leaving his formal training behind for good. Early in his career he worked in Denmark and on cruise ships with artists such as Josephine Baker and Fats Waller. Asmussen later was greatly influenced by Stuff Smith, whom he
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SVEND ASMUSSEN Plays Hot Fiddle (aka Hot Fiddle) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Plays Hot Fiddle (aka Hot Fiddle)
Swing 1953
SVEND ASMUSSEN Svend Asmussen And His Unmelancholy Danes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Svend Asmussen And His Unmelancholy Danes
Swing 1955
SVEND ASMUSSEN Asmussen Moods album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Asmussen Moods
Swing 1956
SVEND ASMUSSEN Svend Asmussen & Ulrik Neumann : Danish Imports album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Svend Asmussen & Ulrik Neumann : Danish Imports
Swing 1961
SVEND ASMUSSEN Svend Asmussen Evergreens album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Svend Asmussen Evergreens
Swing 1961
SVEND ASMUSSEN Svend & Ulrik : En Kväll Med Svend & Ulrik album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Svend & Ulrik : En Kväll Med Svend & Ulrik
Swing 1962
SVEND ASMUSSEN Evergreens album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evergreens
Swing 1965
SVEND ASMUSSEN Two of a Kind album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Two of a Kind
Swing 1965
SVEND ASMUSSEN The Many Sides of Svend Asmussen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Many Sides of Svend Asmussen
Swing 1965
SVEND ASMUSSEN The Svend Asmussen Sextet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Svend Asmussen Sextet
Swing 1967
SVEND ASMUSSEN Jazz pa ungerska album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz pa ungerska
Swing 1968
SVEND ASMUSSEN Svend Asmussen spelar nordiskt 20-30-tal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Svend Asmussen spelar nordiskt 20-30-tal
Swing 1968
SVEND ASMUSSEN Amazing Strings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Amazing Strings
Swing 1975
SVEND ASMUSSEN Prize Winners album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Prize Winners
Swing 1978
SVEND ASMUSSEN String Swing (w/ Ulf Wakenius) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
String Swing (w/ Ulf Wakenius)
Swing 1983
SVEND ASMUSSEN June Night album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
June Night
Swing 1984
SVEND ASMUSSEN Fiddler Supreme album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fiddler Supreme
Swing 1989
SVEND ASMUSSEN Fit As A Fiddle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fit As A Fiddle
Swing 1997
SVEND ASMUSSEN Still Fiddling album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Still Fiddling
Swing 2002
SVEND ASMUSSEN Dancing Along With - Vol. 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dancing Along With - Vol. 1
Swing 2005
SVEND ASMUSSEN Dancing Along With - Vol. 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dancing Along With - Vol. 2
Swing 2005

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SVEND ASMUSSEN Embraceable album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Embraceable
Swing 2015

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SVEND ASMUSSEN Phenomenal Fiddler, Volume 2: 1941-1950 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Phenomenal Fiddler, Volume 2: 1941-1950
Swing 1995
SVEND ASMUSSEN The Incomparable Fiddler album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Incomparable Fiddler
Swing 2016

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