Best Violin and/or Cello in Prog

Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base

NOTES:
Musicians listed alphabetically, surname.
This version updated at 4.15pm BST 13^th August 2010, with thanks to everybody (especially OZ), who has contributed and continue to contribute.

Lautaro Acosta: Arti & Mestieri’s First Live In Japan
Ed Alleyne Johnson: solo, New Model Army (e.g. Thunder & Consolation)
Laurie Anderson: solo, (e.g. Big Science)
Darol Anger: solo, Turtle Island String Quartet (e.g. Sky Life)
Dave Arbus: e.g. East Of Eden, guest on Who's Next
Svend Asmussen, (aka ‘The Fiddling Viking’): (jazz violinist) guested with Hubert Laws, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, etc.
Richard Aubert: Atoll's L'araignée-mal
Emilie Autumn: solo, Courtney Love, Billy Corgan
Bill Ayasse: Frogg Cafe (e.g. Creatures)

N Azzam: Vas Multi nation (USA) + sessions

Billy Bang:

Eggy Beard: Chou Pahrot (UK)
Georgina Biddle (aka George Biddle): Skyclad
Andrew Bird: with Bowl Of Fire (e.g. The Mysterious Production of Eggs)

Charly Bisharat: Sahadowfax, seesions with Oman Akram, Jon Anderson
Iva Bittova: (avant violinist), e.g. Moravian Gems
Nick Blaser: guest on Pythagoras' After The Silence

Jan Błędowski: Krzak (Poland)

L Blendberg: Zello (Sweden)
U Blitz: Doctor of Madness (UK)

Greg Bloch: It's a Beautiful Day, Flock, PFM (e.g. Jet Lag).
Luca Boggi: The Slowmovies (e.g. An Unconventional Italian Guide To King Crimson)
Anchise Bolchi: Greenwall (e.g. An Unconventional Italian Guide To King Crimson)
Alessandro Bonetti: Deus Ex Machina
Andreas Brandt: Ålgarnas Trædgård (e.g. Delayed)
Karen Briggs: solo, Vertu

Jean_Philippe Brun: Halloween

Zack Brock: e.g. Coffee Achievers, guest Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond)
Hollis Brown: Ozone Quartet (e.g. Fresh Blood)
John Brown: Hemlock
Jean-Philippe Brun: Halloween
Paul Bunker: Hands

Charles Burnham: James Bood Ulmer (USA)

Doug Cameron: (jazz violinist), http://www.dougcameron.com/#/discography

E Caner: jazz rock folk (USA)

Regina Carter: (jazz violinist), Freefall, a duet cd with jazz pianist Kenny Barron.
Siegfried Carver: Pavlov's Dog

Antonio Cerentola Akutala (Italy) Shika

Duncan Chisholm: Wolfstone, guested with Runrig
Rod Clements: Lindisfarne
Vassar Clements: Jazz Is Dead (e.g. Laughing Water), Dickey Betts, session work

P Cockett: Mainhorse (UK)
Richard Coff: Third Ear Band
Ben Coleman: No-Man, Trashmonk, guested with Porcupine Tree, Alice, Steve Jansen/Yukihiro Takahashi Pulse'
Allison Cornell: Gabrielle Roth,guest on Joe Jackson's 25th Anniversary Special DVD
Sharon Corr: Corrs

Jacinto M. Corral: Hyacintus (Argentina)

Papa John Crech: solo, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship (e.g. Red Octopus)
Claudio Criello: guest on debut eponymous Abiogenesi album

David Cross: solo (e.g. Closer Than Skin), King Crimson,

Billy Currie: Ultravox (UK)

Julian Cusack: Spirogyra
Charlie Daniels
Linde de Groof: Aranis
Ryan Delahoussaye: Blue October
Joe Deninzon: Stratospheerius, Live Wires
Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead)
Andri Didorenko: Lost World (e.g. Awakening Of The Elements)
Rod Dorothy: New Celeste
Warren Ellis: e.g. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman, The Dirty Three, Blackeyed Susans
Marc Elton: Solstice
Michael Evans: Stackridge (e.g. Stackridge), guest on Stray's Saturday Morning Pictures
Lucio Fabbri: PFM
Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn: Guy Manning albums

Mark Feldman: solo, John Abercrombie Group, Tunnels (e.g. Progressivity)

S Folklar: M Morton, Spriguns (UK)
Katherine Fong: e.g. Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond)

A Franfurter: Azigza (USA)
Faith Fraoli: Flying Island
Fred Frith: solo, Henry Cow (e.g. Legend/Leg End)
Michael Gallasso: solo (e.g. Scenes)

Ganesh: Indo-fusion (India)

Jeff Gauthier: (founder of Cryptogramophone Records), leader of Jeff Gauthier's Goatette e.g. One & The Same, House Of Return
Ronnie Gerrard: New Celeste
Ninfa Giannuzzi: Aria Palea (e.g. An Unconventional Italian Guide To King Crimson)
Wilf Gibson: ELO
Claudio Gilice: Quella Vecchia Locanda
Lennart Glenberg: Zello
Jerry Goodman: solo, Flock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dregs, Force Majeure, guest with Derek Sherinian, etc
Stuart Gordon: Peter Hammill
Stephane Grapelli: solo (jazz great), Hot Club De Paris, e.g. guest on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
Richard Greene: Sea Train.
Branislav Grbic: Amarok's Sol De Medianoche
Joachim Gustafsson: Isildurs Bane (e.g. Mind Volume 4: Pass)
Rick Grech: Family, KGB, Blind Faith
Petra Haden:

K Hakenson: Kebnekaise (Sweden)

Lovisa Hallstedt: guest on Ritual's A Dangerous Journey (ex. The Hemulic Voluntary Band).
Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero
Don ‘Sugarcane’ Harris: solo, John Mayall, Frank Zappa
Lotta Hasselquist: guest on Ritual's eponymous first album
Lillee (Lily) Haydn: Lili, Light Blue Sun, Place Between Places, Automaton (USA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Haydn

Yasuda Hemmi: Steamboat (Switzerland)

Greg Hiser: Boud Deun (e.g. Astronomy Made Easy)

E Hoffmann: Embryo (GermanY)Allan Holdsworth: solo, Tempest, Gordon Beck (e.g. Sunbird)
Susie Honeyman: Echo City
Gerard Hourbette: Art Zoyd
Simon House: solo ,High Tide, Hawkwind
Sylvia Houtzager: Flairck
Cath Howell: Skyclad
Christian Howes:jazz http://www.christianhowes.com/
Ewa Jablonska: Indukti (e.g. S.U.S.A.R.)
Katie Jacoby: Project Object
Fritha Jenkins: Skyclad
Leroy Jenkins:avant-garde, free-jazz.
Eddie Jobson: solo (e.g The Green Album), Curved Air, Zappa Band, UK, UKZ, Roxy Music, (on King Crimson's USA)
Michal Jelonek: Anhk (e.g. Expected Unexpected)

Jiří Kabeš: The Plastic People of the Universe
Helena Kallander: guest with Anekdoten (e.g. Nucleus)
Mik Kaminski: Violinski, ELO
Eyvind Kang: Saiko Shimada Project, etc.
D Katz: sessions, including Roger Daltrey (UK)
Iosif Kappl: e.g. guests on Phoenix's Cei Ce Ne-Au Dat Nume
Micael Karoli: Can
Takashi Kawaguchi: Outer Limits
Chris Karrer: Amon Duul II (e.g. Wolf City)

Y Katsui: Bondage Fruit + (Japan)

Kimoto Kazuyoshi: Ground Zero (Japan)
Nigel Kennedy: solo (classically trained), Kate Bush, Kennedy Experience (ex. Stone Free - A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix)
Carla Kihlstedt: Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum
Steve Kindler: Mahavishnu, Jan Hammer Group (e.g. Oh Yeah?, Melodies)
Misa Kitatsuji: Asturias's Bird Eyes View
Tom Kitching: BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician runner up in 2003, with Gren Bartley (e.g. Rushes), http://www.tomkitching.co.uk/pages/indexnews.htm

Peter Knight: Steeleye Span, also plays free jazz (!) e.g. Trevor Watts/Peter Knight's Reunion Live In London

Ashot Korganyan: Oakensham (Armenia)

Christoph Krieger: Aera (e.g. Hand und Fuß), Neue Aera
Elektra Kurtis:
David LaFlamme: Its A Beautiful Day

Martin Lamb: Fairport Convention. (<ST1:COUNTRY-REGIoN w:st="on">UK</ST1:COUNTRY-REGIoN>)

Rod Lambert: Glass Hammer (e.g. Journey Of the Dunadan)
Liesbeth Lambrecht: Aranis

Jack Lancaster: Blodwyn Pig (<ST1:COUNTRY-REGIoN w:st="on">UK</ST1:COUNTRY-REGIoN>)
G Lavrentiev: Alex Kostarev Band (Russia)

Donald Lax: Quella Vecchia Locanda
Jim Lea: Slade (e.g. Coz I Luv You (single)

S Liebig: jazz violin (USA)

David Lindley: solo, Terry Reid, Jackson Browne (e.g. Running On Empty)
Caryn Lin: solo (e.g. Tolerance For Ambiguity)

T Ling Spriguns (UK)
Didier Lockwood: solo, (e.g. Phoenix 90), Gong, Magma, Clearlight
Henry Lowther: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (e.g. Bare Wires), Keef Hartley Band
Ivanu Luna: string section on the album by William Gray's Living Fossils
Madfiddler: played with bands such as Tricks Upon Travellers, K-Passa, the Divine Comedy, Pepe Deluxe, Bjorn Lynne, Bluehorses, The Fox Hat, Moondance, Jill Fielding Band, Danko, Massive Attack, Laura Kenny, 4-4-2, C64Audio.com, ID80s, Silver Dogs
Vanessa Mae: solo (classically trained)
Chad Manning: Americana, blue grass violinist, David Grisman Quintet

John Mayer: Indo jazz (UK)

Charlie McKerron: Capercaillie

Mark Menikos: Aura (USA)

Lucia Micarelli; guest with Jethro Tull, (e.g. Music from a Farther Room)

H Michael: Smash (Spain)

Ben Mink: guest on Rush's Losing it, FM's Headroom: Direct to Disc, Headroom, Surveillance, City Of Fear
Junko Minobe: eponymous debut album by Cinderella Search
Misao: Cosmos Factory (e.g. An Old Castle Of Transylvania
Laura Moors: guest on Season's End (e.g. The Failing Light)

Chris Murphy: solo

T Nakanishi: Cinema (Japan)
Nash The Slash: solo, FM
Rick Nelson: (also viola, cello) The Mandrake Project http://www.mandrakeproject.com/guestbook/guestbook.php?page=12
Sarah Neufeld: The Arcade Fire
Kita Noakil: Salle Gaveau

Charles O'Connor: Horslips
Mark O'Connor: guesting with Dregs, (e.g. Industry Standard), Steve Morse Band (e.g. Pick Your Position)
Helen O'Hara: Dexy's Midnight Runners.
Mauro Pagani: PFM

S Page: e.g. Dan Hick and others (USA)

Owen Pallett: The Arcade Fire (e.g. He Poos Clouds), Has A Good Home (e.g. Final Fantasy)

P Papalardi: guested with Cream, Jack Bruce (USA)
Matthew Parmenter; solo, Discipline etc
Cleis Pearce: (also viola) The MacKenzie Theory, guested with Gilli Smyth
Colin Pearson: Comus
John G. Perry: Sunset Wading

Péter Pejtsik: After Crying
Nick Pickett: Peter Green, John Dummer (Blues) Band; a solo (e.g. Silversleeves)
Dominique Pifarely: (French "third-stream" style), e.g. with Louis Sclavis
Jorge Pinchevski: Gong (e.g. Shamal)

Mirella Pirskanen: Flairck
Noel Pointer:

Sergio Polizzi: Bubu
Antonio Pontarelli: recorded with Jethro Tull, Serj Tankian (e.g. System of a Down)
Jean-Luc Ponty: solo, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Zappa, etc.
Martin Powell: My Dying Bride
Lizzy Prendergast: Bluehorses (folk prog)
Enrico Professione: debut album by Opus Avantra
Omar Puente: member of Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors (e.g. Afropeans)

Luluk Purwanto: Flairck
Bob Pycior: Skeletonbreath's Louise

W Quintus: Perzival (Germany)

David Ragsdale: solo (e.g. David & Goliath), Kansas, Salem Hill, PDQ, guest on various eg. The Smashing Pumpkins (e.g. Siamese Dream), Jason Bonham (e.g. Motherland), Queensryche (e.g. Hear in the Now Frontier), Cryptic Vision (e.g. Moments of Clarity and In a World)
Kala Ramnath: (Indian violinist) e.g. Miles From India

Z Reinhart: jazz violin (GermanY)
Todd Reynolds: Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Live Bootleg)

Geoffrey Richardson: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Caravan

M Ripoche:  Solo, guested with Vangelis (Canada)
Scarlet Rivera: Bob Dylan (e.g. Hurricane ex. Desire)
Mary Rowell: e.g. Joe Jackson's Symphony No 1

P Sage: Wally (Uk)Geoffrey Salmon: Esperanto

A Sanchez: Decibel Saetna (Mexico)

Ric Sanders: solo, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Sanders-Etheridge
Mariano Schiavolini: debut album by Celeste (Italy)
Jenny Scheinmann:
Thomas Schmitt: Pell Mell

Judy Schomper (who also played viola): Flairck
Jonathan Segal: Camper Van Beethoven.
Zbigniew Seifert, solo, guest on Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees
Igor Semenoff: Univers Zero (e.g. Implosion)

Simon Shaheen: solo and other projects e.g. Bill Laswell
L. Shankar: solo, Shakti, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa etc.

M Shinezaki: jazz violin (Japan)Ray Shulman: Gentle Giant (e.g. In A Glass House)

Jeffrey Sick: Christopher Gross Band, Guarneri Underground ((USA)

Tracy Silverman: guest on Paul Hanson's Frolic In The Land Of Plenty

Nicky Skopelitis: Golden Palomino, Ekstasis, + session work
Allen Sloan: Dixie Dregs

Graham Smith: String Driven Thing, Van Der Graaf Generator
Stuff Smith: jazz legend eg. Jazz Violin Summit (with Ponty and Grappelli).
Rob Spall: guested on Soft Machine's Third
Alejandro Spanga: string section on the album by William Gray's Living Fossils (Argentina)
Graham Smith: String Driven Thing, Van der Graaf (e.g. Second Generation)
Pieregidio Spiller: first album by Opus Avantra
Robby Steinhardt: Kansas, Steinhardt-Moon
Katie Stone: My Dying Bride
James Sudakow: solo (e.g. Green), Human Life Index
Dave Swarbrick: solo, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention
Jamii Szmadzinski: Shadowfax
Pierre Tassone: Taylor's Free Universe.
Magdalena Tatoo: Spin XXI

Omar Faruk Tekbilek: e.g. Mystical Garden (Turkey)

Rob Thomas: e.g. Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond)
Billy Thompson: e.g. Barbara Thompson's Paraphenalia (e.g. Never Say Goodbye)
Patrick Tillman/Tilleman: Terpandre, Zao, Gerry Hunt

Boyd Tinsley: Dave Matthews Band
Sophie Trudeau: Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, Valley of the Giants
Lorre Lynn Trytten (who also played kokyo, a Japanese violin): Flairck

Akihisa Tsuboy; KBB, Interpose, Ashda
Petar Ugrin: September (e.g. Zadnja avantura)
Steve Unruh: prog folk
Michal Urbaniak: solo, Urbanator
Eigo Utoh: Midas

J Van Derek: Michael Chapman (UK)
Frank Van Essen: Iona
Jasper Van Rosmalen: Aemen (e.g. Time)
Carolijn Van Der Sanden: Aemen (e.g. Time)
Laura Van Der Stoep: Aemen (e.g. Time)
Joe Venuti: 20's/30's jazz great
Marcus Viana: Sagrado Coraçao da Terra, Saecula Saeculorum (Italy)
Raymond Vincent: Esperanto

Violin Cyndee (Cyndee Lee Rule): solo, Systems Theory

Rocco Vitiello: Notabene (Italy)

Kleber Vogel: Quaterna Requiem (e.g. Velha Gravura), Kaizen.
Jeremy Warmsley: (e.g. The Art of Fiction)
Darryl Way: solo, Wolf, Curved Air, guest with Gong
Michael White: solo (ex. The X-Factor), Fourth Way

John Wierder: Animals, guested with Stud (UK)
Lucy Wilkins: guested with Roxy Music
Patrick Wolf: (e.g. Wind In The Wires)
Mark Wood: Jordan Rudess, e.g. Feeding the Wheel (e.g. Encores Legends & Paradox. Tribute to ELP); Stratospheerius
Gavyn Wright: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Hisako Yamashta: Stomu Yamashta Band (e.g. Complete Go Sessions)
Bob Yang: http://www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kb.htm


And for good measure some violists:
John Cale: solo, Velvet Underground, guest on Hector Zazou (e.g. Blue Sahara)

Jacinto M. Corral: Hyacintus (Argentina)

Nicole Federici: e.g. Mahavishnu Project e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond
Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero.
Hoelderlin Christoph "Nops" Noppeney: Hoelderlin's Live Traumstadt
Mat Maneri: (free jazz player) solo
Fernando Muollo: string section on the album by William Gray's Living Fossils
Rick Nelson: The Mandrake Project
Cleis Pearce: The MacKenzie Theory, guested with Gilli Smyth
Jocelyne Pook: solo, Electra Strings/Brilliant Strings, ABC, Communards, Massive Atttack
Geoffrey Richardson: Caravan (e.g. For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night)
David Rose:

S Woolam: ELO (UK)

And Celloists:

Jack Bruce: Cream, Solo.

Lindsey Cooper: Henry Cow

Ana-sofi Dahlberg: Anekdoten

Charles Dickie: Van Der Graaf Generator’s Vital

Julian Lloyd-Webber: solo (eg. Variations)

Marko Manninen: Hoyry Kone, Alamaailman Vasarat
Marieke Van der Heyden: Flairck

And String Quartets who play jazz, rock,etc.:
Kronos String Quartet: e.g. include Hendrix, Cage in their repertoire
Radio String Quartet: e.g. Celebrating The Mahavishnu Orchestra tribute (awarded German Jazz Critics Prize 2007)
Stringfever: http://www.stringfever.co.uk/video.html
The String Quartet: e.g. released a couple of Rush cover albums.
Turtle Island String Quartet: everything from blue grass to Hendrix to Robert Johnson to Chick Corea