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Topic: violinist
Posted By: gleam
Subject: violinist
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:33
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With all the polls about guitarists, keyboard players and drummers, I thought it would be nice to cover violinists. What are your thoughts concerning the above mentioned? My personal favorite is Jean Luc Ponty's "Enigmatic Ocean" followed by Jerry Goodman's work on "Birds of fire".
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:40
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I love Mauro Pagano's with PFM. One interesting player I have come across recently is Yvette Devereaux,who plays on the K2 album.Very talented,tasteful violinist. ------------- 
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Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:42
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I'm not familiar with K2, could you tell me more about them / her?
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:45
| Jean Luc Ponty is an amazing violinist. His solo stuff is great too. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:49
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=7398 - http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD. asp?cd_id=7398
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gleam wrote:Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 19:55
| interesting topic |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 20:22
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Once again, I will give the name of a great prog violinist who is missing in the violinist polls : Marcus VIANA, leader of the brazilian band Sagrado coraçao da terra. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 20:46
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how about David Cross? I don't know how talented he really is compared to JLP, but his work definitely adds a lot to several KC tracks. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: billyshears'67
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 20:52
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Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Italian violinist who revolutionized violin techniques. Peace & take care |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 20:58
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Marcus VIANA
with Annie HASLAM
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 21:18
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Totally forgot about David Cross from KC! Got to check out Marcus Viana and the other folks from France.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 22:22
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Goodman But probably would have voted for Cross if he was here. ------------- 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: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 16 2005 at 22:35
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Talking only about Prog' violinists (Not to contradict Billyshears 67 In the album Live at Whiskey, Robbie was replaced by the competent violinist David Ragsdale and they played most of their most famous tracks, but without Robbie, there was no personality. His technique is amazing and he adds a special feeling hard to find. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 01:10
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Eddie Jobson! YEAH! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 01:15
Robbie Steinhardt for me. Dust In The Wind is great ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 03:18
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Just saw Goodman playing last week with the Dixie Dregs. He's still one of the best around'
------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 03:35
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Mauro Pagani. I also rate:- Ray Shulman - Gentle Giant Graham Smith - Van der Graaf,String Driven Thing Daryl Way - Curved Air , DW's Wolf Fred Frith - Henry Cow David Cross - King Crimson ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 05:20
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I voted Jobson! Other violinists I like:
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 06:06
| Nigel Kennedy (Kate Bush, The Fog). |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 06:32
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Alessandro Bonetti (Deus ex Machina) is a madman. Not sure where he ranks among these others, but definitely worth hearing! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: JCProg
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 06:49
| KBB's Akihisa Tsuboy is a great violin player and not a bad guitarist either. But JLP is my favorite. |
Posted By: VLADO
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 07:41
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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 ------------- ...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make... |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 09:21
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MAURO PAGANI!!! |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 09:30
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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. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 13:01
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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? |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 13:10
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Holdsworth???? -------------
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 13:11
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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. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 14:52
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FAO: RL and CI 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 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!!!! |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 15:00
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I would have picked either Alessandro Bonetti or Daryl Way if they would have been on the list. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 17 2005 at 15:06
| Jerry Goodman kicks butt. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 18:18
Marcus Viana is not from France, he's from Brazil ! ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 18:25
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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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Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 18:36
| Who's that guy who played violin with Halloween at Progfrest? |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: April 18 2005 at 19:29
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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! |
Posted By: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 06:43
| SIMON HOUSE! |
Posted By: gr8dane
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 20:45
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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. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 20:55
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None of them above because there are better violinists than them. Trust me, I am a violinist. |
Posted By: starcastle38
Date Posted: May 20 2005 at 22:50
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Nash the Slash from FM Black Noise ------------- starcastle38 |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:24
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Good choices, intelligently-worded poll. 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.... Oi! Longhair! Play "dust in the Wind" again!
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:30
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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. Anyone who doesn't agree that the live "Freeway Jam" rocks, must stay after class....
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:34
| 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. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: May 21 2005 at 00:45
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. |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 22 2005 at 01:38
Or maybe he should play the Pinnacle again Peter? 
Robby cannot help the lines that made him famous. ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: Philrod
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 00:34
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Philrod/?chartstyle=Geldropdown-small"> 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 03:16
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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? |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 07:46
| Ponty/"Aurora" album (1976)/the violon part on the piece "renaissance" makes me cry... |
Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 09:38
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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. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 10:58
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There are some other honorable mentions:
Hollis Brown from Ozone Quartet. http://www.ozonequartet.com/ - http://www.ozonequartet.com/
Multi-Instrumentalist Steve Unruh saws a mean fiddle. http://www.steveunruh.com/ - http://www.steveunruh.com/ |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 11:04
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Oh, David Ragsdale too.
Garion and I will see him next Friday night. Whoo Hoo. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 20:10
| 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. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 03:01
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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.
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 05:23
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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. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 09:02
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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. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Borealis
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 09:21
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From the poll, Jerry Goodman. ------------- Vive le Québec libre!... |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 13:16
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Stuart Gordon and davivd cross for me ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 17:02
And with Magma! He was only 17 or 18 when he played on the 1975 live album of Magma. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 09 2005 at 17:14
DIDIER LOCKWOOD the King of Progressive Violin!
with Robby Steinhardt and Jean-Luc Ponty a close 2nd! |