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,” ...

In week's edition we visit vivacious violin works in jazz from Ray Nance of the Ellington Outfit, Billy Bang & His Quartet, Jennifer Curtis with Tyshawn Sorley and a new release form NYC-based South ...

Grammy-nominated artist Regina Carter explores the power of music through the voice of the violin in a wide range of genres—including jazz, R&B, Latin, classical, blues, country, pop, and African. A ...

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 ...

Piano Jazz celebrates the centennial ... When he was 13, his father bought him a secondhand violin, and Grappelli earned money playing the popular music of the day on the streets of Paris and ...

“Choppe” Daigle II, Jairus inherited the feel for jazz music. “I started playing the violin through my dad. My dad was a professional pianist here in Lake Charles, and during the time when I got ...

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 ...