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Eddie Lang
American musician
Also known as: Blind Willie Dunn, Salvatore Massaro
Quick Facts
- Byname:
- Blind Willie Dunn
- Original name:
- Salvatore Massaro
- Born:
- Oct. 25, 1902, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.
- Died:
- March 26, 1933, New York, N.Y. (aged 30)
Eddie Lang (born Oct. 25, 1902, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died March 26, 1933, New York, N.Y.) was an American musician, among the first guitar soloists in jazz and an accompanist of rare sensitivity. Lang began playing violin in boyhood; his father, who made fretted stringed instruments, taught him to play guitar. In the early 1920s he played with former schoolmate Joe Venuti in Atlantic City, N.J., and then toured with the Mound City Blue Blowers. He settled in New York City in 1924, where he played in dance bands. He quickly became a favourite in studios, making noted recordings with Frank ...(100 of 209 words)