Artist's albums
Hyggetimen Vol. 29 (Den första gång jag såg dig)
2021 · album
Vi stiller om til Vol. 16, ABC/Cabarethallen
2021 · album
Svend Asmussen Evergreens (Reel-to-Reel Version)
2021 · album
Hyggetimen Vol. 6
2021 · album
Danish Imports
2020 · album
Skandinaviske sange på engelsk
2020 · album
Svend Asmussen at Slukafter
2020 · album
Careless Love
2017 · album
Blue Skies
2017 · album
A Centenary Salute
2016 · album
Danish Jazz, Vol. 6
2015 · album
Trubbel (Live)
2015 · album
Amazing Strings
2015 · album
Just A Gigolo
2015 · album
Lonesome Road
2015 · album
Nobody's Sweetheart
2015 · album
Embraceable
2015 · album
Svend Asmussen, Live 1989 Denmark
2015 · album
Lindberg: Noaks Ark
2014 · album
Danish Import
2013 · album
June Night
2013 · album
Rhythm Is Our Business
2009 · album
Makin' Whoopee...and Music!
2009 · album
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Biography
A top swing violinist beginning in the mid-'30s, it seems strange that Svend Asmussen was not better known in the United States. He started playing violin when he was seven and made his professional debut in 1933. Always based in Scandinavia (hence his obscurity in the U.S.), Asmussen made his first records as a leader in 1935 and was consistently popular in his homeland for decades thereafter. He played with the Mills Brothers and Fats Waller in the 1930s when they passed through Denmark, but when Benny Goodman tried to get him in the mid-'50s for his small group, strict immigration laws made it impossible for him to work in the U.S. Asmussen recorded with John Lewis (1962), Duke Ellington (as part of a 1963 violin summit), Toots Thielemans, Lionel Hampton (1978), and on a few occasions with Stéphane Grappelli, in addition to many dates with his own groups. He died in February 2017 at the age of 100. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi