WEEKLY SPECIAL

Acoustic Disc is now offering a special 20% discount on one of our digital download releases each week.

This week’s bargain-priced special is Svend Asmussen Swing Violin Masterpieces.

Svend Asmussen was a pioneer of jazz violin who passed away in 2017 at age 101. His amazing career spanned more than 80 years in two centuries. This four-volume collection contains 80 classic performances from his first 15 years as a recording artist.

The program includes selections from his first historic session recorded in 1935 with the Argentine swing guitar master Oscar Aleman whose work is well documented on Swing Guitar Masterpieces. Svend was also a ground-breaking jazz vocalist and vibraphonist and his unique arrangements, vocal and instrumental, are featured here extensively. Svend met David Grisman in Copenhagen in 1985 when the DGQ played the famed Jazzhus Montmartre and they became fast friends. David invited Svend to tour the US in 1986 and they recorded an album Svingin’ With Svend during that tour and in 1988 they played the Berlin Jazz Festival together This collection was produced by David Grisman.