Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists?

If you like this I can make more recommendations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVRaDX6kRU

This is the first time I heard anyone mention "Billy Bang". He comes out of a lot of different bags. The first time I heard him he was into "Carlos Casteneda", who was into the sorcery of Mexican Indians, and wrote about "shamanism" and different states of mind. Billy Bang was using his writings for inspiration. It was all very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co1D8AvUwtw&feature=related

Here is a more recent Billy Bang.

Ray Nance.

You are a very astute observer, Rok2id.

Inna, while I agree with your general statement; it's not good enough to be against something, and not be "for" something else.

Why don't you post a "Youtube" that best illustrates the violinist who "floats your boat".

This is one of my favorite jazz tunes "Delilah"; she's the one Sampson fell for. This version features Ray Nance on violin and Ahmed Abdul Malik on bass, it's boss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFSM9Frx3w

Rok2id is not the jazz lover he pretends to be. If he was, he would have at least commented, and possibly applauded some of the gems I presented on "Youtube".

If you notice, he's put everything down, and hasn't put up one single example of what "floats his boat"; that's because I don't think he's got one.

I'm not into that "uber" quality thing. All I can say is that LP's are better than early CD's.

The worlds greatest musicians have recorded stuff that belongs in the dumpster. You have to be very specific and only get the music you know about, as opposed to just getting music by that particular artist. This doesn't apply to the set by Tina Brooks, but you get my drift.

Enjoy the music.

Here is Tina Brooks from the Masaic LP set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1yyGYZoa34

Back to violin, here's Regina Carter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4ifBXx-Z8&feature=related

I have "The complete Blue Note Recordings of The Tina Brooks Quintets" on Mosaic LP's. This is "World Music" with Regina Carter. She can come out of many different bags, although this is the first time I saw her play world music. I liked the composition of the music and the instruments; but the musicians seemed to be on tranquilizers. I could live without it in my collection. She's got a long way to go to catch "Ray Nance", but she's got time.

I have "Grazing In The Grass" and a lot more by Masekela; I also like Manhattan Transfer, although some time I can't tell them from New York Voices which is another group I like.

It's nice to know we're on the same page.