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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But at the urging of his wife, singer Jessica Molaskey, he played the disc sent in by jazz violin prodigy Aaron Weinstein ... started out studying old-time fiddle music at age eight.