There have been a few geniuses of the violin since the beginning of recorded jazz and we're all standing on their shoulders. AAJ: You have a special connection with the music of Zbigniew Seifert, the ...

"Jazz violin is not a giant genre ... by ear is a lot different from playing a string quartet while reading sheet music. "If you spend too many years trying to play things exactly as they're ...

Thompson Jazz Studies Program Director John Gunther was sitting next to Assistant Professor of Violin Chas Wetherbee ... with the similarities and differences between jazz and classical music,” ...

Retired after two decades of teaching music in Marin public elementary schools, he’s been focusing on investigating the violin’s jazz roots. In the fall he’s planning a research trip to New ...

told jazz historian Stanley Dance: "You can swing more on a violin than on any instrument ever made. You've got all those octaves on the violin. You can slur like a trombone, play staccato like a ...

Violin great Regina ... musical pursuit of this 2023 NEA Jazz Masters honoree, 2006 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient and Manhattan School of Music faculty member.

In 1999 alone, two years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his oratorio “Blood on the Fields,” this jazz trumpeter ... s latest music. A recording of his 2015 Violin Concerto, performed ...