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List of jazz violinists

This is a list of jazz violinists who have become notable. Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century. Early jazz violinists included Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy. Joe Venuti was best known for his work with guitarist Eddie Lang during the 1920s. Georgie Stoll was a jazz violinist who became an orchestra leader and film music director.

French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is a jazz-rock fusion performer

Since that time there have been many superb improvising violinists including Noel Pointer, Stéphane Grappelli, and Jean-Luc Ponty. While not primarily jazz violinists, Darol Anger, Adam Taubitz and Mark O'Connor have spent significant parts of their careers playing jazz, while emerging artists like Scott Tixier and Jeremy Kittel have devoted themselves almost exclusively to jazz both modern and traditional. Violins also appear in string ensembles or big bands supplying orchestral backgrounds to many jazz recordings.[1] Lately, extensive academic research on jazz violin has been conducted and published.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Violins, Benning. "A History of Violins in the World of Jazz". Benning Violins. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  2. ^ "A review update on Ari Poutiainen's Stringprovisation – A Fingering Strategy for Jazz Violin Improvisation (AMF 28)". Mtsnet.wordpress.com. 29 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2019-01-26. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ Goddu, Jenn (14 March 2002). "Music People: Savoir Faire is everywhere!". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
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