More Joe Venuti

Venuti was one of the earliest
jazz violinist and his recordings
with virtuoso guitarist Eddie Lang
directly inspired the Django-Grapelli
collaboration. Venuti was an indefatigable
session musician and recorded with a
raft of my favorite 20s/30s artists,
including the Boswell Sisters and Bing Crosby.

Tromboner

Venuti's sideman...
don't know who he was

Joe Venuti

This is a precious concert
memory...seeing the legendary
Joe Venuti gig at an intimate
club in the Orlando area. This may
be the venue pictured in the Wikipedia
article, the Village Jazz Lounge. He
died 6 months later.

Scary Horse

Randy B

....so there we were in Florida...

NIXON and pals

a typical stream-of-
consciousness doodling...

lizard boy

faerie

...looks like some marker
bleed-thru on this one...
appears to be a butterfly.

foxy

long dawg

...this preceeds the
dragonne...

Dragonne

Another bleed-through
picture....

Dis hair cowboy...

...is moving on...

A Wotzit

Boid

...more marker work....

Big Woman

She was at Disney World!

Big Eye Sea Horse

And here is the third
bleed-through.

Big Eye Fish

This is the next bleed-through...

Big Kat

My friend Mike had a technique
with markers...the bleed-through
to the next page suggested an
image which inspired the graphic
on the page. I adopted that here...

Sea Horse

I don't think this
was from life.

faerie model

Oh, yeah, these were
prototypes for a story
I never completed...