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Another band that popped into my mind is Cydemind.
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

I like the first album too, agreed.  The only one I think is kinda weak is "Warmest Sun in Winter".

Gotta like "Please Go Home," however, as it's quite a powerful piece (that features violin).
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Originally posted by foregonillusions foregonillusions wrote:

Another band that popped into my mind is Cydemind.
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

I like the first album too, agreed.  The only one I think is kinda weak is "Warmest Sun in Winter".

Gotta like "Please Go Home," however, as it's quite a powerful piece (that features violin).

I was gonna say that it's one of their best tracks, and certainly the best on that album.  I saw them live, playing a lot of tracks from that album, and "Please Go Home" was the only one that really grabbed me.  When I got the disk it was still the only one LOL
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Discipline (with Matthew Parmenter) and Indukti - SUSAR. 
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  For violin, I'd say KBB is excellent. Isildurs Bane is another good one. Even the new release by a band I'm in; Smoregaschord -'' Sum Kees '' (not out yet). It's all violin and keyboard.
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Not offering much here but that GRAND GENERAL album is amazing and the violin adds a lot to that feeling. 
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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Originally posted by PhideauxFan PhideauxFan wrote:

Discipline (with Matthew Parmenter) and Indukti - SUSAR. 

Oh I forgot about INDUKTI! Maybe my favourite music with violin. She's incredible!
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^ INDUKTI is probably my favourite music with violin, too.

Unlike many, though, I prefer IDMEN to S.U.S.A.R. - but both are superb!

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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

^ INDUKTI is probably my favourite music with violin, too.

Unlike many, though, I prefer IDMEN to S.U.S.A.R. - but both are superb!



Idmen is my favourite of the two as well but it's close. 
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I know this falls outside the scope of the OP being music > 40 years old but it's more of a 'heads up' to most of you who've likely never had the chance to hear it. Rather obscure but worth every moment tracking down are Scottish avant leaning Chou Pahrot whose sole full length album from '79 is a 5 star pant filler recorded live (though some dispute this) featuring some spine tingling violin from the unforgettably named 'Eggy Beard' who started life as Martin McKenna:


Think of Crimson and the Magic Band playing unrecognisable Bartok & Stravinsky covers at the Scottish wedding of Ivor Cutler and Wild Man Fischer and you're in the ballpark thereabouts....



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Buried deep in PA is a list of violinists I gathered together and then updated over several years. Originally it was produced to prove a point there far more violinists than suggested by some here in the '00s. I gave up on September 2010. That is until now, adding ten more entries this morning. Clearly more to go, so please help adding names via this thread, so I can further update the master list. Here is that list:

Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base

NOTES:
Musicians listed alphabetically, surname.
This version updated at 17.15 BST 12th September 2010, with thanks to everybody, who have contributed and continue to contribute.

Lautaro Acosta: Arti & Mestieri’s First Live In Japan

Sanna Ågren: guest on Time Traveller’s Chapters 1 & 2
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 (e.g. The Next World (2012)), Live Wires
Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead)
Andri Didorenko: Lost World (e.g. Awakening Of The Elements)

Allan Dodge: e.g. with R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Rod Dorothy: New Celeste

Brian Eliason: Fiction (e.g. Loose Translation)
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/

Anna Hytte: plays the Norwegian hardanger violin, e.g. sl*g.’s Linde
Ewa Jablonska: Indukti (e.g. S.U.S.A.R. (2004))
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)

Ilana Katz Katz: blues rock solist, e.g. In My Mind (2021)

Y Katsui: Bondage Fruit + (Japan)

Kimoto Kazuyoshi: Ground Zero (Japan)
Nigel Kennedy: solo (classically trained), Kate Bush, Kennedy Experience (eg. Stone Free - A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix)

Karl Kessler: guest on 4Front’s  Radio Waves Goodbye – also viola

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, numerous session work
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

Mia Matsumiya: Kayo Dot, Maudlin Of The Well (guest on Part The Second), Tartar Lamb.

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

Vittorio Nocenzi: Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso’s Garofano Rosso (1976)

Maarja Nuut: Phlox (e.g. Talu)

Tetsuya Ochiai: Pryme Tyme (Jp)

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, e.g. Phideaux’s– Doomsday Afternoon 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: Flairck

Mia Scot: folk violinist (eg. Iona Lane’s Hallival)

Barley Scotch (aka John Wheeler): Hayseed Dixie’s blue grass pastiche’s of rock classics (e.g. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper)

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).

Paul Solley : Paladin
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

Mazz Swift: Violin on Hear In Now’s Not Living In Fear (2017)


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

John Wheeler (aka Barley Scotch): Hayseed Dixie’s blue grass pastiches of rock classics (e.g. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper)

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

Katsui Yjui:  guest with Coil on Big Games


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.

Tony Harris: Esperanto

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:

Judy Schomper: Flairck

S Woolam: ELO (UK)

 

And Celloists:

Jack Bruce: Cream, Solo.

Lindsey Cooper: Henry Cow

Melora Creager: Rasputina

Ana-sofi Dahlberg: Anekdoten

Daniel De Jesus: Rasputina

Charles Dickie: Van Der Graaf Generator’s Vital

Timothy Kraemer: Esperanto

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.:
Ameto String Quartet: e.g.
Dawda Jobarteh -Soaring Wild Lands

Balanescu Quartet: e.g.  Possessed for covers of Kraftwerk

Ethel: e.g. on Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren’s State Theater New Jersey 2005

Kronos String Quartet: e.g. include Hendrix, Cage in their repertoire

Morgaua String Quartet: with 4 albums of progressive music covers, e.g. Atom Heart Mother Is Close To The Edge
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




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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Buried deep in PA is a list of violinists I gathered together and then updated over several years. Originally it was produced to prove a point there far more violinists than suggested by some here in the '00s. I gave up on September 2010. That is until now, adding ten more entries this morning. Clearly more to go, so please help adding names via this thread, so I can further update the master list. Here is that list:

Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base

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Musicians listed alphabetically, surname.

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Hi,

Outstanding ... by far the first time I have seen a "listing" that we can be really proud of, that does not feature 5 of the poster's favorites!

Thanks you so much

The bigger issue I have, is how much of this is actually being given a listen, so many of these have the chance to be enjoyed and appreciated.

I'm not partial to any specific one person in this list, but there are some great things here:

Darryl Way
Graham Smith
Papa John Crech
Charlie Daniels
Chris Karrer (part time)
Michael Karoli (part time)
Laurie Anderson
Charly Bisharat
Richard Coff
Michael Evans
Simon House
Dave Swarbrick
and so many others ... it's not like the violin died and went to heaven ... we got stuck on the instruments that are mentioned as most important for progressive music ... instead of concentrating on the music itself! The mentality is sad, and hurts the many bands out there that did some really beautiful work and can only get some attention via the dedication of one member in PA that went out of his way to create such a list and show us ... PROG/PROGRESSIVE never died ... it was always alive, but we got stuck on the "top 5". The sooner we admit it and agree, the better, and the more we will be able to listen to a heck of a lot of music out there. 

I didn't check, and will ... I can't even name violin players that were involved with folks at ECM other than Shankar ... Egberto Gismonti had one in Brazil that was fabulous, as were a lot of the folks he played with!
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Thanks that is appreciated. I'll add those players already listed here on this thread.


In passing, I had attempted a list of harpsichord players... but.................... 
At the end of the 60's the smaller recording studios appeared to lack the funds to purchase/hire the new fangled Moog synthesiser but had access to harpsichords. For instance the instrument can be heard on several of the releases issued by Elektra Records, e.g. by Judy Collins, Love, The Doors. At the same time Neil Innes was to be found playing the instrument with the Bonzos.
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Did anyone mention the amazing Nash the Slash?  If so, I missed it! 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2022 at 04:11
Appreciate the list Dick Heath but it's not what I asked for. Not reading the OP and morphing the topic seems to be tradition at PA, so carry on.

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

In the 70's, bands such as Kansas, Dixie Dregs, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Mahavishnu Orchestra prominently featured violin in their music. Are there any modern bands (last twenty years) that feature the violin?
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Um … yes. Dick's list was put together in 2004? I don't think it's been updated.

Ingranaggi Della Valle debuted with quite a violin-heavy sound with their 2013 debut, In hoc signo. (Marco Genarini)

So many bands use violinists or string quartets and string ensembles to augment their music--often on a song-by-song basis, its almost the minority that don't use stringed instrumentalists in their songs! It's just less common for the principle headliner/composer to be a violinist.


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List updated mid 2010 so includes violinists from 2002.................................. 
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

I know this falls outside the scope of the OP being music > 40 years old but it's more of a 'heads up' to most of you who've likely never had the chance to hear it. Rather obscure but worth every moment tracking down are Scottish avant leaning Chou Pahrot whose sole full length album from '79 is a 5 star pant filler recorded live (though some dispute this) featuring some spine tingling violin from the unforgettably named 'Eggy Beard' who started life as Martin McKenna:


Think of Crimson and the Magic Band playing unrecognisable Bartok & Stravinsky covers at the Scottish wedding of Ivor Cutler and Wild Man Fischer and you're in the ballpark thereabouts....

Possibly the greatest band that ever existed.



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Dick, first of all, amazing work!  May I suggest that you start another thread, exact forum location unknown, with your list where we can add in ones that are missing, so that we don't completely derail the original thread and what the OP has requested.  I have a half dozen or so that I can add (Believe, Strawbs, Dave Cousins, Fuchsia, Il Castello di Atlante, FM, (beyond what you already have) , Decameron, Lindisfarne, Galahad) with probably more coming...Or, as Brufordfreak stated so well, is it so prevalent that we should start listing bands that NEVER used violin instead!
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