a few more for you:

Takashi Kawaguchi - Outer Limits (Japan)/John Brown - Hemlock (Canada)/Akakashi Tsuboy - KBB and Interpose+ and Ashda/Alejandro Spanga + Ivanu Luna + FernandoMuollo (viola) : string section on the album Living Fossils by William Gray (Argentina) ..

Edited by erik neuteboom - July 03 2008 at 14:54

Many thanks for the numerous additions in the last few hours -I think with those I've been storing up, there are ~15 new additions on the updated data base below. There are also several pieces of additional information added  wrt violists previously listed. I've added a section on string quartets (I think I've come  across 3 new - to me - groups  in the last 12 months) - also a lazy way of listing these artists without losing the individuals in the main list.

Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base

NOTES:

Musicians listed alphabetically, surname in bold.

Updated at 9pm 3rd July 2008, with thanks to everybody who has contributed and continue to contribute.

 

Ed Alleyne Johnson: solo, New Model Army (e.g. Thunder & Consolation)

Laurie Anderson: (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). worked with Hubert Laws, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, etc.

Emilie Autumn: solo, Courtney Love, Billy Corgan

Bill Ayasse: Frogg Cafe e.g. Creatures

Billy Bang

Georgina Biddle (aka George Biddle), Skyclad

Andrew Bird: with Bowl Of Fire (e.g. The Mysterious Production of Eggs)

Greg Bloch: It's a Beautiful Day, Flock and Jet Lag-era PFM.

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

Hollis Brown: Ozone Quartet (e.g. Fresh Blood)

John Brown - Hemlock (Canada)

Paul Bunker: Hands

Regina Carter: Freefall, a duet cd with jazz pianist Kenny Barron.

Siegfried Carver: Pavlov's Dog

Duncan Chisholm: Wolfstone, guested with Runrig

Rod Clements: Lindisfarne

Vassar Clements: Jazz Is Dead (e.g. Laughing Water) Dickey Betts, session work

Richard Coff: Third Ear Band.

Sharon Corr: Corrs

Papa John Crech: solo, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship (e.g. Red Octopus)

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

Julian Cusack Spirogyra

Violin Cyndee

Charlie Daniels

Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead)

Rod Dorothy: New Celeste

Michael Evans: Stackridge (e.g. Stackridge), guest on Stray’s Saturday Morning Pictures

Lucio Fabbri: PFM

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

Faith Fraoli: Flying Island

Fred Frith, solo, Henry Cow (e.g. Legend)

Michael Gallasso: solo (e.g Scenes)

Jeff Gauthier: (founder of Cryptogramophone Records), leader of Jeff Gauthier’s Goatette eg. 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

Jerry Goodman: solo, Flock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dregs, Force Majeure

Stuart Gordon: Peter Hammill

Stephane Grapelli: solo, Hot Club De Paris, e.g. guest on Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Richard Greene:  SeaTrain.

Joachim Gustafsson: Isildurs Bane (e.g. Mind Volume 4: Pass)

Rick Grech: Family, KGB, Blind Faith

Lovisa Hallstedt: guest on Ritual’s A Dangerous Journey (ex. The Hemulic Voluntary Band).

Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero

Sugarcane Harris: solo, John Mayall, Frank Zappa

Lotta Hasselquist: guest on Ritual’s eponymous first album

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

Allan Holdsworth: solo, Tempest, Gordon Beck (e.g. Sunbird)

Gerard Hourbette: Art Zoyd

Simon House: High Tide, Hawkwind, solo

Cath Howell: Skyclad

Fritha Jenkins: Skyclad

Eddie Jobson:, solo, Curved Air, Zappa Band, UK, Roxy Music, (on King Crimson’s USA)

Michal Jelonek: Anhk (e.g. Expected Unexpected)

Helena Kallander: guest with Anekdoten (ex. Nucleus)

Mik Kaminski: Violinski, ELO

Iosif Kappl: e.g. guests on Phoenix’s Cei Ce Ne-Au Dat Nume

Micael Karoli: Can

Takashi Kawaguchi: Outer Limits (Japan)

Chris Karrer: Amon Duul II (e.g. Wolf City)

Nigel Kennedy: solo, 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)

Tom Kitching: BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician runner up in 2003, (e.g. with Gren Bartley: e.g. )

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

Christoph Krieger: Aera (e.g. Hand und Fuß)

Elektra Kurtis

David LaFlamme: Its A Beautiful Day

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

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

David Lindley: solo, Jackson Browne (e.g. Running On Empty)

Caryn Lin: solo (e.g. Tolerance For Ambiguity)

Didier Lockwood: solo, (e.g. Phoenix 90), 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 (Argentina) ..

Madfiddler: Over the past 13 years 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

Charlie McKerron: Capercaillie

Ben Mink: guest on Rush’s Losing it

Misao: Cosmos Factory’s An Old Castle Of Transylvania

Nash The Slash: solo, FM

Sarah Neufeld: The Arcade Fire

Mark O'Connor: guesting with Dregs, (e.g. Industry standard), Steve Morse Band: e.g. Pick your position)

Charles O'Connor: Horslips

Helen O'Hara:, Dexy's Midnight Runners.

Mauro Pagani: PFM

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

Colin Pearson: Comus

Nick Pickett: Peter Green, John Dummer (Blues) Band; a solo e.g. Silversleeves (1972)

Jorge Pinchevski: worked and toured  with  Gong (Shamal)

Noel Pointer

Antonio Pontarelli: recorded with Jethro Tull, Serj Tankian (System of a Down)

Jean Luc Ponty: solo, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Zappa,etc.

Martin Powell: My Dying Bride

Lizzy Prendergast: Bluehorses (folk prog)

Omar Puente: e.g. part of Courtney Pine’s Jazz Warriors (e.g. Afropeans)

David Ragsdale: Kansas - Salem Hill

Kala Ramnath: (Indian violin) e.g. Miles From India

Todd Reynolds: Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Live Bootleg)

Geoffrey Richardson: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Caravan

Scarlet Rivera: Bob Dylan (e.g. Hurricane, ex. Desire)

Mary Rowell: e.g. Joe Jackson's Symphony n°1

Geoffrey Salmon: Esperanto

Ric Sanders: solo, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Sanders-Etheridge

Zbigniew Seifert, solo, also guest on Charlie Mariano’s Helen 12 Trees

Igor Semenoff, Univers Zero (e.g. Implosion)

L. Shankar:, solo, Shakti, Peter Gabriel etc.

Ray Shulman: Gentle Giant (e.g. In A Glass House)

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

Allen Sloan: Dixie Dregs

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)

Robby Steinhardt: Kansas

Katie Stone: My Dying Bride

James Sudakow: (e.g. Green)

Dave Swarbrick: solo, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention

Jamii Szmadzinski: Shadowfax

Magdalena Tatoo: Spin XXI (Brazil)

Billy Thompson: e.g. Barbara Thompson’s Paraphenalia (e.g. Never Say Goodbye)

Boyd Tinsley: Dave Matthews Band

Sophie Trudeau: Godspeed You Black Emperor, A Silver Mt. Zion, Valley of the Giants

Akihisa Tsuboy; KBB, Interpose, Ashda

Petar Ugrin: September (e.g. Zadnja avantura)

Michal Urbaniak: solo, Urbanator

Frank Van Essen: Iona

Joe Venuti: 20’s/30’s jazz great

Marcus Viana: Sagrado Coraçao da Terra

Raymond Vincent: Esperanto

Kleber Vogel: Quaterna Requiem (e.g. Velha Gravura), Kaizen.

Jeremy Warmsley: (e.g. The Art of Fiction)
Darryl Way: solo, Wolf, guest with Gong, Curved Air

Michael White: Fourth Way, solo (ex. The X-Factor)

Lucy Wilkins: Roxy Music

Patrick Wolf: (e.g. Wind In The Wires)

Mark Wood: Jordan Rudess, (e.g. Feeding the wheel on. Encores Legends and Paradox. Tribute to ELP)

Gavyn Wright: Penguin Cafe Orchestra  

Hisako Yamashta:, Stomu Yamashta Band (e.g. Complete Go Sessions)

Bob Yang: http://www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kb.htm

 

 

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 this year)

Stringfever: http://www.stringfever.co.uk/video.html

The String Quartet: e.g. released a couple of Rush covers.

Turtle Island String Quartet: everything from blue grass toHendrix to Robert Johnson to ChickCorea

 

 

And for good measure some violists:

John Cale: solo, Velvet Underground, guest on Hector Zazou (e.g. Blue Sahara)

Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero.

Christoph "Nops" Noppeney, Hoelderlin

Mat Maneri: solo, free jazz player

Fernando Muollo: string section on the album by William Gray’s Living Fossils (Argentina)

Geoffrey Richardson: Caravan (e.g. For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night)

David Rose

Edited by Dick Heath - July 03 2008 at 16:14

BTW thought I would check the numbers out: 148 individual violinists listed above as being on recordings as far as PA members are aware.

And mine's here:

I see Gary Husband in addition to Jerry Goodman.
Mr. Heath in the middle, I presume.

By the way excellent list there, as much as a rack my brain, I can't come up with anyone not mentioned.

Man, Scarlet Rivera!, I've got a couple of her solo albums I haven't heard in years (Scarlet Fever and maybe her debut).  Certainly had her proggy moments on those.  Did not know she worked with Dylan.

Wait, I got one, Stuff Smith from Jazz Violin Summit with Ponty and Grappelli.
One more, Ryan Delahoussaye, Blue October.


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 04 2008 at 09:18

Slartibartfast wrote: I see Gary Husband in addition to Jerry Goodman. Mr. Heath in the middle, I presume. Yes  - bum bag and all!!! By the way excellent list there, as much as a rack my brain, I can't come up with anyone not mentioned. This "database" was started several years ago when there was this perrential complaint on PA that there were so few violinists in rock: usually the suggestion was <10!!!  I knew was way less than the truth and wanted to prove different. Fortunately I didn't post the only copy on PA - these things disappear into black holes, never to reappear - so I have gone back to the master file in my PC, added to it and twice reintroduced the thread. I have to thank all those who have contributed and moved (I guess) my original list of 40 violinists towards 150 (including those who have come in today and here: Wait, I got one, Stuff Smith from Jazz Violin Summit with Ponty and Grappelli. One more, Ryan Delahoussaye, Blue October.   There have been other attempts to create databases here of musicians playing less common musical instruments - but the harmonium list has disappeared!!!

Don't know whether this counts, as it was only part of a string-quartet intro of one song...

Edited by Dean - July 04 2008 at 11:34

Dick Heath wrote: erik neuteboom wrote:     Dick, I presume you have recognized Eddie Jobson but who is who on your picture         Yes - the tight trousers and tie gives him away.....   As mentioned wrt to my photo's line-up: Gary Husband: drums & grande piano Dick Heath: camera, Walkman, MD-recorder (I interviewed Husband for my radioshow, but Goodman refused to speak into the microphone, but was otherwise very chatty. I gleaned off him to the Question: 'Who's the best rock violinist?', the answer: 'Me', (which was confirmed when I asked David Cross the same question 9 months later). Jerry Goodman: electric violin Photo taken on my camera by Goodman's technician.   Here's the full Force Majeure line in rehearsal at Birmingham (the English Midland's city!!!) early 2003, when I and a couple of other fans were allowed to wander free around the band and take pictures (challenge: put names to the rest of Force Majeure):