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:''For the blues singer Eddie Lang (singer)'' Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was an American jazz guitarist, regarded by some as the Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists including Django Reinhardt. ==Biography== Lang was born Salvatore Massaro, the son of an Italian-American〔Lang's father was born in Monteroduni, an Italian village in Molise. The township of Monteroduni hosts every year a commemorative "Eddie Lang Jazz Festival". See ()〕 instrument maker in Philadelphia. He first took violin lessons for 11 years. In school he became friends with Joe Venuti, with whom he would work for much of his career. He was playing professionally by about 1918, playing violin, banjo and guitar. He worked with various bands in the USA's Northeast, worked in London (late 1924 to early 1925), then settled in New York City. Lang was the first important jazz guitarist. He was effectively able to integrate the guitar into 1920s jazz recordings. He played with the bands of Joe Venuti, Adrian Rollini, Roger Wolfe Kahn and Jean Goldkette, in addition to doing a large amount of freelance radio and recording work. While most bands of the time had a banjo player (the banjo being louder than the guitars of the time), Lang was skilled enough to make his acoustic guitar be heard in the mix; he was so influential that, according to George Van Eps, banjo players had no choice but to switch to guitar. On February 4, 1927, Lang featured in the recording of "Singin' the Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet. Lang traded guitar licks while Beiderbecke soloed on cornet, in a landmark jazz recording of the 1920s.〔 In 1929, he joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and can be seen and heard in the movie ''King of Jazz''. In 1930, Lang played guitar on the original recording of the jazz and pop standard "Georgia On My Mind", recorded with Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra. Joe Venuti and Bix Beiderbecke also played on this recording. When Bing Crosby left Whiteman, Lang went with Crosby as his accompanist, and can be seen with him in the 1932 movie ''Big Broadcast''. Lang also played under the pseudonym Blind Willie Dunn on a number of blues records with Lonnie Johnson,〔 to mask his race.〔 Lang died following a tonsillectomy〔(Jazz and Otolaryngology: The Death of Guitarist Eddie Lang )〕 in New York City in 1933 at the age of thirty. He had been urged by Crosby to have the tonsillectomy so that he might have speaking parts in Crosby's films. Lang's voice was chronically hoarse, and it was hoped that the operation would remedy this. It is unclear exactly what the cause of death was, but it is thought that uncontrolled bleeding played a role. Author James Sallis claims that he died when he developed an embolism while still under anesthetic and never regained consciousness.〔''The Guitar Players - One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music'' by James Sallis 1982〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eddie Lang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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