# | Cover | Release title | Total tracks | Download full release in mp3 | Release Date | Label |
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1 |
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Yesterday And Today |
7 |
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1973 | A&M Records |
2 |
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Scandinavian Songs |
12 |
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Interdisc (2) | |
3 |
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Toots & Svend |
7 |
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1972 | Sonet |
4 |
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Prize/Winners |
9 |
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1978 | Matrix Records (3) |
5 |
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European Encounter |
7 |
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1962 | Atlantic |
6 |
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Violin Summit - Recorded In Concert |
7 |
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MPS Records | |
7 |
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Svend Asmussen And Your Favourites |
4 |
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Philips | |
8 |
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Violin-Summit |
7 |
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1966 | SABA |
9 |
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On The Good Ship Lollipop |
10 |
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1987 | Doctor Jazz |
10 |
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Violin Summit |
7 |
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1984 | MPS Records |
11 |
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Spelar Jazz På Ungerska |
9 |
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1968 | Megafon |
12 |
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Scandinavian Songs With Alice And Svend |
12 |
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1964 | Polydor |
13 |
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Danish Imports |
4 |
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1961 | |
14 |
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Toots & Svend |
7 |
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1979 | Sonet |
15 |
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Garland |
6 |
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1982 | Storyville |
16 |
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Violin Summit - Recorded In Concert |
7 |
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MPS Records | |
17 |
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June Night |
10 |
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1993-07-13 | Sony Music Special Products |
18 |
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Kammarkören & Eric Ericsson Möter Svend Asmussen |
10 |
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1972 | RCA Victor |
19 |
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Side By Side |
4 |
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1959 | Decca |
20 |
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Scandinavian Songs With Alice And Svend |
12 |
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1964 | |
21 |
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Danish Imports |
12 |
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Telestar | |
22 |
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Toots & Svend |
7 |
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Sonet | |
23 |
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Musik I Kyrkan |
6 |
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1975 | EMI |
24 |
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Toots & Svend |
7 |
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1983-07-00 | |
25 |
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String Wing |
8 |
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1983-12-00 | |
26 |
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Danish Imports |
12 |
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1961 | Warner Bros. Records |
27 |
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Two Of A Kind |
8 |
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1968 | Polydor |
28 |
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When You Are Smiling / Sleepy Time Gal / I Ain't Got Nobody / Margie / Nola / Dardanella |
6 |
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Philips | |
29 |
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Spielt Welterfolge |
12 |
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1961 | Telefunken |
30 |
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Spelar För Er |
14 |
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1977 | EMI |
31 |
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Telemann Today |
5 |
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1976 | Polydor |
32 |
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As Time Goes By |
6 |
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1978 | Sonet |
33 |
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These Foolish Things |
2 |
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Odeon | |
34 |
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Hot Swing Fiddle Classics |
14 |
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1979 | Folklyric Records |
35 |
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Yesterday And Today |
7 |
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1973 | A&M Records |
36 |
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Violin Summit |
7 |
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MPS Records | |
37 |
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Evergreens |
16 |
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1965 | Odeon |
38 |
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As Time Goes By |
6 |
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1978 | Sonet |
39 |
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Sleepy Time Gal / Margie - Nola - Dardanella |
2 |
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Philips | |
40 |
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Svend Asmussen Spielt |
4 |
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Decca | |
41 |
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European Encounter |
7 |
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1962 | Atlantic |
42 |
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Violin-Summit |
7 |
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Dargil | |
43 |
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European Encounter |
7 |
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1986 | Atlantic |
44 |
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Violin-Summit |
7 |
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1984 | Verve Records |
45 |
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Nuestros Favoritos |
4 |
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1958 | Philips |
46 |
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Regnbågsgränd / Följ Med Mej |
2 |
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Metronome | |
47 |
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Two Of A Kind |
8 |
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Disques Festival | |
48 |
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Violin-Summit |
7 |
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1966 | Prestige |
49 |
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Amazing Strings |
8 |
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1975 | |
50 |
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June Night |
10 |
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1983 | Doctor Jazz Records |
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.