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Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin
by Ian Patterson
It's not difficult to think of great blues artists--there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists--and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the violin? Great blues guitarists and vocalists have never been in short supply, but the great blues violinist, once ...
Christian Howes: Out of the Blue
by Ian Patterson
The violin is widely considered as the most expressive of instruments, closely approximating the human voice. It depends, however, to a large degree, on whose hands the instrument is in. Christian Howes is that rare breed of musician who makes the violin talk; using the idiom of the blues on Out of the Blue, Howes gives ...
Great Stuff
Stuff Smith, born on this date in 1909, was one of the three great pre-bop jazz violinists (along with Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli). In an era when the violin was considered a bit old-fashioned sounding for jazz, Smith's playing was more raw and rhythmic, using a more Texas blues feel to knock any whiff of ...
Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace
by Troy Collins
Protesting the inhumanity of war through creative endeavors takes on far greater significance when the artist in question has been personally involved. A veteran of the Vietnam War, violinist Billy Bang confronted his own personal demons on such albums as Vietnam: The Aftermath (Justin Time, 2001) and Vietnam: Reflections (Justin Time, 2004). Prayer for Peace is ...
Stuff Smith: Five Fine Violins Celebrating 100 Years
by Chris Mosey
Featured here in his twilight years, violinist Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff" Smith was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1909. Before he died in Denmark in 1967, he became one of the jazz world's most colorful characters, performing on occasion with a parrot on his shoulder and playing with everyone from Alphonso Trent's minstrel band to Dizzy ...
Svend Asmussen: Rhythm Is Our Business
by Chris Mosey
Once, as they were jamming, Duke Ellington's drummer Sam Woodyard called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, “Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naïvely innocent wit so typical of his homeland, “From now on then my name is only Mussen." There is just one ...
Stuff Smith: The Complete Tenor Sax Septets & Masters of Jazz
by George Kanzler
Stuff Smith The Complete Tenor Sax Septets Ab Fable 2006 Stuff Smith Masters of Jazz Storyville 2006 These two albums give us snapshots of violinist ...
Jazz Violin Summit
Label: Legacy International
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bowing-Bowing; Golden Green; Memorial Jam for Stuff Smith; Vioin Summit No 2 ; Valerie; Blues in the Dungeon; Skip It; How High The Moon; This Can't Be Love; Sposin'; Willow Weep For Me;
Swingin' Stuff
By Stuff Smith
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Caravan; Take the A Train; Old Stinkin' Blues; Only Time Will Tell; Mack the Knife; One
O'Clock Jump; Blues for Timme (Timme's Blues); My Blue Heaven; Bugle Blues; C Jam Blues;
Perdido; S'posin'; How High the Moon.
Ray Nance: Body and Soul
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Ray Nance recorded Body and Soul, his first album as a leader, in May 1969, almost thirty years after he took over Cootie Williams' trumpet chair in the Duke Ellington orchestra, but only about two years after Billy Strayhorn's death in May 1967, and mere days after Coleman Hawkins' in May 1969. Nance performed “Take the ...
