who is your favorite prog violinist?
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Topic: who is your favorite prog violinist?
Posted By: BaldJean
Subject: who is your favorite prog violinist?
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 09:42
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I just love wild violin, and all of these violinists can go really wild. I am certain I forgot a lot, so please feel free to name them. these were just the first that came to my mind. many of them are actually multi-instrumentalists -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 09:54
I would have voted for "Violinski" of ELO if he'd been on the list. 
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 10:02
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I think I prefer Eddie Jobson. Still, he isn't only a violinist. He is a great keyboardist too. So, he is a very complete musician. Unfortunately, he is one of the most underrated prog musicians. So, Jobson is to me. He's one of my favourite prog artsits, really.
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 10:34
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Michał Urbaniak. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 10:37
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The late great Dave Swarbrick. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 10:50
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Darryl Way ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 10:56
How could I forget Darryl Way of Curved Air and Wolf!? I'll change my vote from "Violinski" to Darryl Way.
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MortSahlFan wrote:Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:04
I didn't see Robby Steinhardt and voted other thinking he was omitted   ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: triptych
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:10
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I'd say Ally Storch of Ally the Fiddle, a prog metal band from Germany https://ally-fiddle.de/downloads/Bandinfo_AllyTheFiddle_ENGL_18.pdf  |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:15
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Ponty is quite amazing..... ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:22
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Liesbeth Lambrecht (Aranis) and Karolina Mlodecka (Forgas Band Phenomena) are up there but it has to be Carla Kihlstedt (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Rabbit Rabbit, Tin Hat, Book Of Knots, Cosa Brava) ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:35
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my vote goes to Simon House ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 11:39
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Ponty, followed by Jobson and Steinhardt. There are plenty of fine players in the Prog Folk category, although we might technically call them fiddlers. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 12:13
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Can I just vote for everybody? Simon, Robby, Eddie, Didier, Darryl...a bunch of awesome guys! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 12:16
| Ponty |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 13:29
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Didier Lockwood ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 13:56
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Eddie Jobson, of course! |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 13:56
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I am still quite blown away by L. Shankar--and not just by his ten-stringed, double neck electric violin, but by the skill he exhibited even before he started playing that monster. I've also been quite enamored of the work done by Shankar's older brother, Lakshminarayana Subramanian--especially when working with Usted Ali Akbar Khan. Both Lakshminarayanan brothers have been at the fore front of the whole East-West fusion, each collaborating with an incredibly impressive list of Western artists, including, but not limited to John Handy, Stéphane Grappelli, Larry Coryell, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussein, Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Yehudi Mehunin, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Ruggiero Ricci, Joe Sample, Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, George Harrison, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, Sting, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, and Jean-Luc Ponty. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 16:09
all masters but I`ll go with Robby Steinhardt (Kansas) I'm not saying he's technical the best but his music moves me more than the others. 
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 18:48
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I'll go with Darryl Way: Curved Air, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, and one of my favorites from Tull.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 19:00
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Jobson.....Darryl Way... Jerry Goodman...Steinhardt.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 19:01
Ah, Clog Dance. The man with the blue violin. I think he is still performing these days on one the offshoots of ELO. I think I liked Wilf Gibson a bit better. Gibson also performed on KC's Islands album. From the list I picked Lockwood. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 21:19
| Zack Brock of Snarky Puppy. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 27 2020 at 21:56
| the guy with Il Castello di Atlante |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 00:27
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Eddie Jobson Ray Shulman ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 02:31
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I voted for JLP, although I'd also vote for Jerry Goodman, formerly of The Flock, Mahavishnu Orchestra & Dixie Dregs! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 03:18
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Chris Karrer is probably not the best when it comes to vituosity, but the use of violin in ADII just appeals to me so he gets my vote. Graham Smith's appearance in The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome is awesome and I wish VDGG had more with him. Darryl Way next and then Didier Lockwood. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 03:20
Lambrecht and Kihlstedt are great (don't know Mlodecka), and I add Iva Bittova.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 06:36
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From this list I chose Robbie Steinhardt, but I could also pick Frank van Essen (Iona), Eddie Jobson, Darrly Way or Siegfried Carver (Pavlov's Dog). ------------- 
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 07:24
| From this list, Eddie Jobson. If David Cross was in, he would have gotten my vote. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 08:16
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David Cross and Jerry Goodman were definitely two of the oversights I mentioned in my initial post ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 08:19
I should miss Cross too, a man of taste. My vote went to Graham Smith, maybe surpased by the big Eddie Jobson in dexterity, but not in Charisma..! 
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Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 08:49
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Toss up between Ponty and Jobson, but I went with Ponty. I, too, wish David Cross was on the list. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 12:12
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Karen Briggs |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: November 28 2020 at 16:00
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Charles O'Connor from Horslips not on list. Superb front man and violinist. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 02:55
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Jobson. He also played on the Viva Roxy Music live album where his violin work overshadows the keyboard stuff. I also like Robbie Steinhardt , Jean Luc Ponty and Darryl Way from that list. Jerry Goodman also worth a mention. He released an excellent instrumental album On The Future Of Aviation in the 80's , worth checking out.
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 05:36
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My choice would be Jean-Luc Ponty, who seems to me the most versatile of the lot. ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 08:57
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David Cross for me. Next, Jean-Luc Ponty on the list. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 16:33
Hi, I specially liked his duet with the electric guitar in "Apocaliptyc Bore" ... and in general, how he uses his violin is amazing, and unlike many of the other "musicians". And this guy is a Sufi master! For him, the use of the instrument is something that we do not usually think of in "westernized commercial music". Of all these, and I have heard them all, Simon House is very special because what he added to HAWKWIND is something that added tremendously to the music ... and it's hard to not think of his ability as a keyboard player which was also magnificent and brought HAWKWIND to a more modern sound than the electronics of before. Darryl Way is very fine, and his ability with Curved Air is magnificent, and then with Wolf. On his own and with Gong, I do not think he was as strong, and I think he might have been discouraged by it all. Graham Smith, has always had an incredible list of stuff going back to the very early days before String Driven Thing, and his work with PH was very nice, but I think that he felt limited that he could not add more to the whole thing, but you never really saw that with the saxophone as an issue with PH. JLP is not one of my favorites, although he has some really good stuff, and seeing him with RTF is a treat ... and I wish he would do more with them, if the opportunity was there. His many solo albums come and go ... and always have one or two things that are very nice. However, when I heard him with Jon Anderson, it was sad ... and it was obvious that he wanted to do more with his violin, but was having to be in the background and consequently his work suffered. Nice, but not great. His stuff with FZ is nice, ... but I always think that it is more FZ than it is JLP. Eddie Jobson is OK with me, and his best stuff is ... probably in his earlier days when he helped Roxy Music some ... but I also like his stuff with Curved Air. After that, I am not sure ... it is obvious that he is a master musician, but I am not sure that he ever really "showed" that he was the super violin player that the others are. Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention deserves a mention here ... his work with the band from the early days to his end, is special indeed, and one ought to catch the improvisations that you can find in some films here and there with Richard Thompson, and how he handled himself ... very well. Special is the only word for it.
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 16:59
Absolutely!!! I was just scrolling down to nominate him when I saw your post. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 19:01
I was trying to work out who all the "other" votes are being cast. Must be David Cross.
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Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 20:26
 I voted Other - for Nash the Slash, because he should not be forgotten.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 22:53
OUTSTANDING suggestion, thank you~~ ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: November 29 2020 at 23:52
Or Jerry Goodman.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 01:34
Ditto  ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 04:38
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Don "Sugarcane" Harris |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 08:28
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Oh how you slighted David Cross with his exclusion from this poll. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 11:24
as I said in my initial post: I am certain I missed a lot that need to be mentioned. Jerry Goodman of The Flock and The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Lakshminarayana Shankar of Shakti are two other examples of serious oversight by me ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 12:06
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: November 30 2020 at 14:36
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I know this is supposed to be about violin playing only but Robby's voice is what made Kansas great. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: December 15 2020 at 11:15
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1. Eddie Jobson 2. Robbie Steinhardt 3. Ben Mink
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 14:20
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Though this poll is almost four years old, I had to go searching for previous threads about prog violinists because I've only JUST DISCOVERED J-R Fusion pioneer MICHAL URBANIAK. I have been blown away not just by his innovative sound (he J-L- Ponty-ed the processed electric violin sound long before J-L P, L. Shankar, and/or ARTI E MESTIERI's Giovanni Vigliar ever did) but by his ability to surround himself with incredible musicians with which he could push the envelope of seriously great composition and jazz-funk sound as well as by his tremendous discography: the dude released--as a band leader/composer--over a dozen studio albums in the Seventies, pioneered the melodic synth funk that J-L P and Arti E Mestieri later copied and perfected, pioneered the Acid Jazz movement, and never stopped recording and touring or re-inventing himself to the end! And yet there are so few reviews here on PA--so few of us who have even heard of the dude--despite the fact that he has been living and recording as an American since 1973! 31 studio albums between 1968 and 2009! John Davies (Mellotron Storm), Scott from The Idiocracy (Evolver), Slava Gliozeris (snobb), and now me, are the only people here on PA who lay claim to giving this amazing artist his due! Let the word out! Michal Urbaniak's discography is at the top end of the Jazz-Rock Fusion hierarchy. And the dude was not only a virtuoso violinist and composer of the very highest caliber but a Montreux Jazz Festival award-winning saxophonist (in 1971 after teaching himself the sax)!!! How could this guy have not received his due props?!!! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 14:42
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Jean-Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Music
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 14:53
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Darryl Way |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 17:20
| I did a poll like this about two years ago. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 18:51
| Thomas Schmidt, from German Symphonic Prog band "Pell Mell"...especially his endearing transcription of Smetana's "The Moldau" from the Pell Mell debut album "Marburg" |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: October 09 2024 at 21:20
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David Cross Dave Swarbrick Jobson ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 10 2024 at 06:57
Hi, Paul ... it's missing the cannons!!!! (Totally awesome version ... not on any albums?) ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: October 10 2024 at 07:11
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Darryl Way. ------------- 'We're going to need a bigger swear jar.' |