Blues, Jazz, Rock Violinists?

Duanegoosen
BTW, do you agree of disagree with the idea that culture has to be defended. Otherwise we will have no culture.
I don't think a person can get together with a few friends and start a group, make some sounds, declared the sounds their First Symphony in A minor and then have it show up in the record stores right next to Bach and Mozart.

That's how I see the Jazz question. It's getting to be a dumping ground. People don't like what you are doing, short on talent, call it Jazz. just my two cents.

There you go again, speaking as if your OPINIONS are actually FACTS! Hard for me to fathom how someone that claims to love Jazz can be so tunnel-visioned and narrow-minded (as Jazz is the antithesis of this type of mindset). OK, so according to you, Ponty isn't a Jazz musician because you don't like the TYPE of Jazz he's played. Plz don't even attempt to say Fusion (or avant-garde/free for that matter) isn't Jazz as it really is an ignorant statement. If you hate these forms of Jazz, fine, lots of people do. But to say it isn't Jazz just 'cause you say so amounts to nothing more than a hissy fit! So if YOU don't like Big Band I guess that isn't Jazz either, or vocalese, or latin, or fill-in-the-blank. Jazz is a very small word for a very large music genre. McLaughlin, Corea, Zawinul, Davis, jeez, the list goes on and on, I suppose none of THESE guys are Jazz musicians either!?

Here's the thing, I don't like Ponty's work and I hate avant/free Jazz, but it seems silly to me to deny their existence. You say you're 'defending culture', but in reality, you're attacking it.

Here's a violinist that's been active for decades that I'd bet isn't too well-know around here: Alfredo De La Fe.

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.

Orpheus10
I like almost all of your youtube posts.

I am not into video as such. I have a dvd of "a great day in harlem' and a few blue note dvds, but I have never played them, because I don't have a high quality play back video system. I will correct that soon.

What floats my boat?

Today's playlist
Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits
Ellington and Hodges - back to back / side to side
Armstrong and Fitzgerald - best of
Tina Brooks - true blue
Herbie Hancock - Takin' off
andre Rieu - forever vienna
Carmen McRae - sings monk
Betty Carter - droppin' things
George Benson - tenderly (playing now)

all this and more floats my boat.
The johnny hodges / ellington stuff is truly great.
Peace

Obviously Grappelli is the biggest omission from your list. Another current artist I don't think has been mentioned, interestingly, is Mark O'Conner.

I went to school briefly with Jean Luc Ponty's daughters; one of whom, Clara, is a fine pianist. She has a few albums out of what most would probably describe as "New Age" music.