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Poll Question: Who do you consider to be the most accomplished violinist?
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81 [22.95%]
90 [25.50%]
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KBB's Akihisa Tsuboy is a great violin player and not a bad guitarist either. But JLP is my favorite.
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stuart gordon graham smith (associated to Mr. PH)

siegfried carver (pavlov's dog)

richard kroczek (associated to dezo ursiny - czecho-slovakia)

these are my nominations
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 MAURO PAGANI!!!
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I haven't heard any of the stuff from the people listed, so I can't say.

However, my favourite violin player is Vanessa Mae.
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Which guitarist who has been unforgivably omitted from the companion  guitarist poll, has played with the following fiddlers:

Darryl Way
Eddie Jobson
Jerry Goodman
Jean Luc Ponty
Didier Lockwood

and has played/been recorded on violin too?
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Holdsworth????



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Allan Holdsworth... who played some violin in a Tempest song for their 1973 eponymous debut album. Tempest was an art-rock band drummer Jon Hiseman formed after his Colosseum days.



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Bullseye, and you'll find him playing fiddle on Gordon Beck's album Sunbird, as well as the first Tempest album

These sorts of poll gets me going, due to their incompleteness -  relegating the poll to no more than a minor piece of fun. Fishing through my collection (and without going deeply to too many European or Japaness bands), the following names come up (and I've added a few viola and cello players to think about too):

Violin:

Ed Alleyne-Johnson: New Model Army, Solo

Darol Anger: Turtle Island Quartet etc.

Dave Arbus: East Of Eden, session violinist for Who’s Next

Papa John Crech: Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, solo

Davis Cross: King Crimson, solo

Yvette Devereaux: K2

Mark Feldman: Magic Band, Mahavishnu Project, Tunnels, etc.

Jerry Goodman: Flock, Mahavisnhu Orchestra, Goodman/Hammer, Dregs, sessions, Neverwasneverwillbe, Gary Husband’s Force Majeure solo

Rick Grech: Family, Blind Faith

Sugarcane Harris: Bluesbreakers, Zappa

Allan Holdsworth: Tempest, Gordon Beck

Simon House: High Tide, Hawkwind(?)

Eddie Jobson: Curved Air, Roxy Music, Mothers Of Invention, UK, solo, TV theme music, etc.

Nigel Kennedy: solo classic, rock and jazz

Steve Kindler: Jan Hammer Group, Mahavishu

Caryn Lin: solo (her Tolerance Of Ambiguity is IMHO the best prog violin album in the last decade)

Didier Lockwood: solo

Jean Luc Ponty: Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra, solo

Ric Sanders: Soft Machine, Etheridge/Sanders. Fairport Convention

(Levi) Shankar: Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Shakti, solo, etc.

Ray Shulman: Gentle Giant

Graham Smith: Van Der Graaf, String Driven Thing

 Robby Steinhardt: Kansas

Dave Swarbrick: solo, Fairport Convention

Boyd Tinsley: Dave Matthews Band

Michel Urbaniak: Solo, Urbanator

Michael White: solo

Darryl Wolf: Curved Air, Wolf, Gong, solo

(and I've scratched my ehad and still can't remember the jazz fusion lady violinist in Vertu???)

 

Viola:

John Cale: Velvet Underground, solo

Geoffrey Richardson: Caravan

 

Cello:

Jack Bruce: Cream, solo

Anna Sofi Dahberg: Anekdoten

David Darling: solo

Angela Schmidt: Far Corner

I spoke with Jerry Goldman backstage in Birmingham, touring with Force Majeure in 2004 (btw DVD is now released!!!). I asked him who his favouirte violinist was, he told me frankly: himself!!!!
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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Alessandro Bonetti (Deus ex Machina) is a madman. Not sure where he ranks among these others, but definitely worth hearing!

I would have picked either Alessandro Bonetti or Daryl Way if they would have been on the list.
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Jerry Goodman kicks butt.
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Originally posted by gleam gleam wrote:

Got to check out Marcus Viana and the other folks from France.

 

Marcus Viana is not from France, he's from Brazil !
"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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To Lucas,

I know, I was referring to an earlier thread in which several French violinists were mentioned.

 
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Who's that guy who played violin with Halloween at Progfrest?
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doesnt take a neurologist to figure out that the best
violinists came from France in the 70's, for evidence
check out

Didier Lockwood with Zao, Clearlight or Gong
Jean-Luc Ponty with Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu
Orchestra and solo
Henry Loustau with Ange
Gerard Hourbette with Art Zoyd
Richard Aubert with Atoll
Laurent Vercambe with Malicorne

just taking a few off the top!

half of the best in the world are from France!

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SIMON HOUSE!
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They are all excellent.You picked some real fine ones.I do have a weakness for Jobson.

He is the only one I actually saw live.3 times with Roxy and 1ce with Jethro Tull.

I have loved Kansas from day 1 ,so that also counts for something.
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None of them above because there are better violinists than them.

Trust me, I am a violinist.

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Good choices, intelligently-worded poll.Clap

I'll vote for J.L. Ponty, ex-Zappa alumni, and solo fusion artist extrordinaire, natch, with Edwin Jobsen next, then the guy from PFM.

The Kansas guy can clean up afterwards....Wink

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Goodman is a good man too, but I really only know him from one or two albums, especially the great Jeff Beck & Jan Hammer Live. Ermm

Anyone who doesn't agree that the live "Freeway Jam" rocks, must stay after class....Stern Smile

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