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French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is a jazz-rock fusion performer. 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.
Karen Briggs (born August 12, 1963), also known as the "Lady in Red", is an American violinist.Born in Manhattan to a family of musicians, Briggs took up the violin at age 12 and committed to playing professionally at age 15.
Pointer was married to Chinita and had two daughters and a son; he lived in Brooklyn. After his death, Chinita Pointer founded the Noel Pointer Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing string music education to inner-city students, which is located in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.
French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is a jazz-rock fusion performer. Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. Early jazz violinists included: Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; and Claude "Fiddler" Williams.
Regina Carter at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay CA 3/1/20. Carter returned to the U.S. and first came into the spotlight as the violinist for the all female pop-jazz quintet Straight Ahead in 1987, [5] with Cynthia Dewberry, Gayelynn McKinney, Eileen Orr, and Marion Hayden.
At the age of 16, Kennedy was invited by jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli to appear with him at New York's Carnegie Hall. [5] He made his recording debut in 1984 with Elgar's Violin Concerto . His subsequent recording of Vivaldi 's The Four Seasons with the English Chamber Orchestra in 1989 sold over two million copies and earned a place as ...
The group name "Black Violin" is derived from the album of the same name by jazz violinist, Stuff Smith. [3] At FIU, Sylvester met Sam G., who would go on to become the duo's manager. [citation needed] Alongside Sam G., the duo went on to co-found the production company DKNEX, which stands for Di-Versatile Music. [5]
Violinist: Beauty pageant titleholder: Title: Miss Black America (1983) Sonya L. Robinson (born July 29, 1959) is an American musician and songwriter. Background.