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Poll Question: Who do you consider to be the most accomplished violinist?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
42 [11.90%]
81 [22.95%]
90 [25.50%]
74 [20.96%]
66 [18.70%]
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Jean Luc hands downs. Are you kidding?! The guy's been playing the v since he was like 5 for crying out loud. Not to mention the work he's done with Stephan Grapelli(did I spell that right?). BTW, where is he here?! I know the man is mostly categorized in the fusion realm, but his work is so symphonic he has to be included here. If you're gonna put Brand X, Maha and Return To Forever here, you better include him too.
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

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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Sorry. But that's not Jerry Goodman on that album. I forget the name of the guy, but I saw Jeff on this tour with Jan (they opened for Jefferson Starship of all things). I think you're confusing this album with an album Jan and Jerry did right after they left Maha called "Like Children". Both played all the instruments.
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

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


Oi! Longhair! Play "dust in the Wind" again!



Or maybe he should play the Pinnacle again Peter?



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My favorite violin moment is the Jerry Goodman's solo on One word. It is absolutely amazing. The whole Birds of Fire album is absolutely astonishing.
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Pagani and Jobson were in two of my all-time favourite bands, PFM and UK.

I voted for Jean-Luc Ponty, though: he's probably more accomplished, and after my vote Ponty and Goodman both have 39 votes. Who will win?
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Ponty/"Aurora" album (1976)/the violon part on the piece "renaissance" makes me cry...
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Donald Lax in the Quella Vecchia Locanda debut. Most beautiful violin in this one imo.

Most accomplished? - I don't have the knowledge to answer that.
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There are some other honorable mentions:

 

Hollis Brown from Ozone Quartet.

http://www.ozonequartet.com/

Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Unruh saws a mean fiddle.

http://www.steveunruh.com/
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Oh, David Ragsdale too.

 

 

Garion and I will see him next Friday night. Whoo Hoo.
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Can only be Simon House...and why do our North American friends always vote for bands that are as progressive as Bucks Fizz...Kansas..tut, tut. 
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Lots of names missing. Graham Smith, Stuart Gordon, Simon House, Chris Karrer( who is one of the best multiinstrumentalists), Ray Shulman (Trouserpress must have overlooked this post, else he would have mentioned him). To name a few that immediately come to my mind.


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I'm sorry, but Charles O'Connor of Horslips is in a completely different league to any of those mentioned so far (including Nigel Kennedy who is the most overrated violinist I've ever heard).

Pagani is the best of those on the poll; Ponty is also very good.
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Jean forgot to mention Didier Lockwood and the late Jorge Pinchevski. In fusion also Zbigniew Seifert.

Just to mention a little anecdote: Stephane Grapelli, the famous jazz violinist, who used to play with Django Reinhardt, gave his violin to Jean-Luc Ponty as a token of appreciation for him. Ponty himself passed it on to Dider Lockwood a few years later as a token of appreciation for him. Let's see where Lockwood will pass it when he thinks he has a suitable candidate.



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From the poll, Jerry Goodman.
Vive le Québec libre!...
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Stuart Gordon and davivd cross for me
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Originally posted by DallasBryan DallasBryan wrote:


Didier Lockwood with Zao, Clearlight or Gong

And with Magma! He was only 17 or 18 when he played on the 1975 live album of Magma.


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DIDIER LOCKWOOD the King of Progressive Violin!


with Robby Steinhardt and Jean-Luc Ponty a close
2nd!

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