Svend Asmussen

Svend Asmussen

Discography of Svend Asmussen:

#	Dwnld	Release title	Total tracks	Type	Imprint date	Label
1		Yesterday And Today	7	Track list	1973	A&M Records
2		Scandinavian Songs	12	Track list		Interdisc (2)
3		Toots & Svend	7	Track list	1972	Sonet
4		Prize/Winners	9	Track list	1978	Matrix Records (3)
5		European Encounter	7	Track list	1962	Atlantic
6		Violin Summit - Recorded In Concert	7	Track list		MPS Records
7		Svend Asmussen And Your Favourites	4	Track list		Philips
8		Violin-Summit	7	Track list	1966	SABA
9		On The Good Ship Lollipop	10	Track list	1987	Doctor Jazz
10		Violin Summit	7	Track list	1984	MPS Records
11		Spelar Jazz På Ungerska	9	Track list	1968	Megafon
12		Scandinavian Songs With Alice And Svend	12	Track list	1964	Polydor
13		Danish Imports	4	Track list	1961
14		Toots & Svend	7	Track list	1979	Sonet
15		Garland	6	Track list	1982	Storyville
16		Violin Summit - Recorded In Concert	7	Track list		MPS Records
17		June Night	10	Track list	1993-07-13	Sony Music Special Products
18		Kammarkören & Eric Ericsson Möter Svend Asmussen	10	Track list	1972	RCA Victor
19		Side By Side	4	Track list	1959	Decca
20		Scandinavian Songs With Alice And Svend	12	Track list	1964
21		Danish Imports	12	Track list		Telestar
22		Toots & Svend	7	Track list		Sonet
23		Musik I Kyrkan	6	Track list	1975	EMI
24		Toots & Svend	7	Track list	1983-07-00
25		String Wing	8	Track list	1983-12-00
26		Danish Imports	12	Track list	1961	Warner Bros. Records
27		Two Of A Kind	8	Track list	1968	Polydor
28		When You Are Smiling / Sleepy Time Gal / I Ain't Got Nobody / Margie / Nola / Dardanella	6	Track list		Philips
29		Spielt Welterfolge	12	Track list	1961	Telefunken
30		Spelar För Er	14	Track list	1977	EMI
31		Telemann Today	5	Track list	1976	Polydor
32		As Time Goes By	6	Track list	1978	Sonet
33		These Foolish Things	2	Track list		Odeon
34		Hot Swing Fiddle Classics	14	Track list	1979	Folklyric Records
35		Yesterday And Today	7	Track list	1973	A&M Records
36		Violin Summit	7	Track list		MPS Records
37		Evergreens	16	Track list	1965	Odeon
38		As Time Goes By	6	Track list	1978	Sonet
39		Sleepy Time Gal / Margie - Nola - Dardanella	2	Track list		Philips
40		Svend Asmussen Spielt	4	Track list		Decca
41		European Encounter	7	Track list	1962	Atlantic
42		Violin-Summit	7	Track list		Dargil
43		European Encounter	7	Track list	1986	Atlantic
44		Violin-Summit	7	Track list	1984	Verve Records
45		Nuestros Favoritos	4	Track list	1958	Philips
46		Regnbågsgränd / Följ Med Mej	2	Track list		Metronome
47		Two Of A Kind	8	Track list		Disques Festival
48		Violin-Summit	7	Track list	1966	Prestige
49		Amazing Strings	8	Track list	1975
50		June Night	10	Track list	1983	Doctor Jazz Records
51		Kammarkören & Eric Ericson Möter Svend Asmussen Igen	15	Track list	1973	RCA Victor
52		Danish Imports	12	Track list	1961	Warner Bros. Records
53		String Wing	8	Track list	1983-12-00	Sonet
54		Violin-Summit	7	Track list	1979	MPS Series
55		String Swing	8	Track list	1983	Sonet
56		Swing With Svend	14	Track list		Victoria (4)
57		With Love From ...	8	Track list	1972	Capri
58		Den Gyldne Swingtid	13	Track list		Tono
59		Garland	6	Track list	1982	Cfe
60		Violin Summit	7	Track list		MPS Records
61		Prize Winners	15	Track list	2004	Music Mecca
62		Be>>Swing<	11	Track list		Discoton

Jazz violinist. b. February 28, 1916 - Copenhagen, Denmark. An institution in danish jazz and an icon of staying power Asmussen has been a recording artist for 8 decades and is still active. Asmussen started playing violin at age seven, got his professional debut in 1933 and made his first recording as a leader in 1935. At first the studied to become a dentist when not playing gigs, but from 1937 he became full-time musician, playing with visiting stars as Josephine Baker, Fats Waller and The Mills Brothers. He started gaining a reputation in both London, Paris and Berlin but the outbreak of war halted planned tours. Due to the nazi's hate of jazz music it was used as a political protest in occupied Denmark (and elsewhere) and Asmussen got arrested. He still succeeded in recording a string of singles for the Odeon label through the first half of the 40'ies. Later shifting to the Tono label. From the early 40'ies he also became active as an actor in both films and on theater, mainly in comedies. In 1945 he formed a new sextet and started touring Europe as a jazz artist, while still making pop music for films, radio and TV - and from the 50'ies touring and recording with the popular Swe-danes. Strict immigration laws kept Asmussen from touring the US and hence he has stayed little known stateside. He did, over the years, record with Lionel Hampton, John Lewis, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington and appeared in the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival "violin summit" with Ray Nance and Jean-Luc Ponty. And when a dozen or more american jazz artist started moving to Copenhagen he formed groups with Ed Thigpen, Kenny Drew. Asmussen recorded with his contemporary fellow-violinist Stéphane Grappelli and with Toots Thielemans on a couple of LP's. In later years Svend Asmussen has both played live and recorded with guitarist Jacob Fischer and Aage Tanggaard. At 96 Asmussen is still fiddling. He is the father of guitarist Claus Asmussen.

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