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Christian Howes & Billy Contreras: Jazz Fiddle Revolution

Read "Jazz Fiddle Revolution" reviewed by Victor Verney

by Victor Verney
December 18, 2006

Christian Howes has often been referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of jazz violin," notes Los Angeles Times critic Don Heckman. He and others, like AAJ's C. Michael Bailey, have taken exception to this title, pointing to the depth and range of Howes' artistry. While Heckman insists that Howes is a jazz player first and foremost ...

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Jazz Fiddle Revolution

By Christian Howes

Label: BRC
Released: 2004
Track listing: Doxy; The Way You Look Tonight; Sunny; Maria, Maria; Merchants Groove; untitled blues jam; untitled bebop jam; Fugue in G Minor for solo violin; It Never Entered My Mind; Traditional Fiddle Tune; The Oracle; Dialog Over Two Themes; What a Wonderful World; Doxy - reprise.

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Jazz on Sale

By Christian Howes

Label: Khaeon World Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Blue Monk, Part 1; Amor Casi Imposible; A Child is Born; Blue in Green; When She's Like Water; Jazz on Sale; Very Early; Falling Grace; Blue Monk, Part 2.

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Christian Howes: Jazz on Sale

Read "Jazz on Sale" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 13, 2003

“Jimi Hendrix of the violin," my ass! It is sad that we are saddled with such tired metaphors. Christian Howes is considerable more talented than such a moniker would suggest. Lee Brown referred to Howes as a “Jazz Paganini." Now that is more like it. Classically trained since the age of five and performing Mendelssohn’s D ...

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Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...