For this session, the veteran jazz violinist
Joe Venuti is teamed with a top-notch group of country players including mandolinist
Jethro Burns,
Curley Chalker on steel guitar and guitarist
Eldon Shamblin. The repertoire is strictly jazz and these diverse players (who are backed by a conventional rhythm section) find plenty of common ground on the veteran standards, most of them from the pens of
Ellington or
Gershwin.
Venuti sounds inspired by the unusual setting. ~ Scott Yanow