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Name: Eddie Lang  
   
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Date of Birth: 25th October 1902
   
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was a jazz guitarist, considered by many the finest of his era.

The Gibson L5 owned by Eddie Lang

Lang was born Salvatore Massaro, the son of an Italian-American instrument maker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At first, he 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 north-east, worked in London (late 1924 to early 1925), then settled in New York City.

He played with the bands of Venuti, Adrian Rollini, Roger Wolfe Kahn and Jean Goldkette in addition to doing a large amount of freelance radio and recording work.


In 1929 he joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, and can be seen and heard in the film The King of Jazz.

When Bing Crosby left Whiteman, Lang went with Bing as his accompanist.

Eddie Lang and Bing Crosby

Lang also played under the pseudonym Blind Willie Dunn on a number of blues records with Lonnie Johnson.

Eddie Lang died from a sudden hemorrhage following a tonsillectomy in New York City.



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