Jazz Articles about Andy Aitchison Quartet

Andy Aitchison Quartet: You Ain't Never

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 12, 2012

The piano and the violin are, perhaps, the only two musical instruments so complete and so possessed of body and soul that they can elicit and provoke the purest feelings of sadness and joy, and every other feeling in-between. But of the two, only one does so with the manipulation of merely four strings. The violin has to be played with complete technical mastery so as to act with the mystery and magic that someone like Nicola Paganini elicited from ...