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Though the violin is a relatively rare instrument in jazz, it's still a wonder that Michael White isn't better known. First coming to prominence with the early fusion group The Fourth Way--also featuring the equally underrated pianist Mike Nock--White recorded a handful of records for Impulse! in the early 1970s, including one bona fide classic, The Land of Spirit and Light (1973). Amongst a larger cast of characters, that disc featured bassist Cecil McBee and percussionist Kenneth Nash, with whom ...

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Michael White: Voices

Read "Voices" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
September 30, 2005

Violinist Michael White was a popular jazz figure during the latter half of the 1960s. As a member of the San Francisco-based John Handy Quintet, White was pivotal. He founded the jazz/fusion cooperative The Fourth Way in the late '60s with pianist Mike Nock and bassist Ron McClure and subsequently recorded for Impulse! during the early 1970s. Except for a '98 duet album with Bill Frisell, Michael White has not recently recorded as a leader. For Voices, he is joined ...