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.
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 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 progressive and "old-fashioned." Violins also appear in string ensembles or big bands supplying orchestral backgrounds to many jazz recordings.
Alphabetically by last name
- Jason Anick (born 1985)
- Svend Asmussen (born 1916)
- Elek Bacsik (1926–1993)
- Adam Bałdych (1986)
- Billy Bang (born 1947)
- Polly Bradfield
- Regina Carter (born 1966)
- Graham Clark (born 1959)
- Vassar Clements (1928–2005)
- Ornette Coleman
- Ian Cooper Australian (born 1970)
- Jerald Daemyon
- David Favis-Mortlock (born 1953)
- Mark Feldman (born 1955)
- Johnny Frigo (1916–2007)
- Jerry Goodman
- Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997)
- Valentin Gregor (born 1963)
- Henry Grimes (born 1935)
- Don "Sugarcane" Harris
- Christian Howes (born 1972)
- Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007)
- Joe Kennedy
- Carla Kihlstedt
- Tim Kliphuis
- Ola Kvernberg (born 1981)
- Didier Lockwood (born 1956)
- Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Ray Nance (1913–1976)
- Florin Niculescu (born 1967)
- Jimmy Palao (1879–1925)
- Geoffrey Fitzhugh Perry (born 1961)
- Noel Pointer (1954-1994)
- Jean-Luc Ponty (born 1942)
- Tobias Preisig (born 1981)
- Omar Puente
- Sonya Robinson
- Randy Sabien (born 1956)
- Jenny Scheinman
- Zbigniew Seifert (1946–1979)
- Stuff Smith (1909–1967)
- Ginger Smock (1920–95)
- Eddie South (1904–1962)
- Adam Taubitz (born 1967)
- Scott Tixier (born 1986)
- Michał Urbaniak
- Jelle van Tongeren
- Joe Venuti (1903–78)
- Noel Webb (born 1958)
- Michael White
- Claude Williams (1908–2004)
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