Possible Poll: Violinists (& Violists)

Trying to pull together for myself a list of violinists (and the handful of viola players) who have been associated with prog - maybe a more comprehensive list can be made into a  poll?

Who should I add to the following and who shouldn't be there - please give reasons?

Dave Arbus (East Of Eden and on the Who's "Whos Next")

Simon Hill (High Tide)

Eddie Jobson (Curved Air, Roxy Music, Mothers, UK, Zinc)

Rick Grech (Family, Blind Faith)

Robbie Steinhardt (Kansas)

Jerry Goodman (Flock, Mahavishnu Orch, Dregs, Force Majeure)

Caryn Lyn (only lady I've come across)

 

Fringe fiddlers?:

Ed Allyene-Johnson (New Model Army)

Darol Anger (Turtle Island String Quartet, etc.)

Nigel Kennedy (own non-classical albums)

Jean Luc Ponty (various including Mahavishnu and Mothers)

Didier Lockwood

Michal Urbianak

Steve Kindler (Mahavishnu, Jan Hammer Group)

Mark Feldman

Karen Briggs (Vertu)

Vanessa

Allan Holdsworth (check out Tempest)

Papa John Creach (Jefferson Airplane)

Sugarcane Harris (John Mayall, Zappa)

 

Plus those better known as viola-players :

Geoff Richardson (Caravan)

John Cale

There are cello players but difficult to think of cello as lead in a prog band - two players come to mind:

Sophie in Anekdoten

Jack Bruce

Mark O'Connor (The Dregs album "Industry standard", Steve Morse Band on the track : "Pick your position")

Allen Sloan (Dixie Dregs)

Ben Mink (Rush, on the track "Losing it")

Mark Wood (Jordan Rudess, "Feeding the wheel", Encores Legends and Paradox tribute to ELP)

Nash The Slash (FM, canadian prog-rock band)

Marcus Viana (Sagrado Coraçao da terra) : one of the most subtile violinist I ever heard and one of the best

Mary Rowell (Joe Jackson's "Symphony n°1", this album is an instrumental prog-rock masterpiece)

Nigel Kennedy (Kate Bush's "Sensual world")

 

If you like this stuff listen to the eponymous "Fuchsia" album!

I tried to do this cold, 2 miles away from the record collection, but annoyed I  forgot David Cross and  Darryl Way!!

I thought about the Kronos Q - because I sneaked Turtle Island SQ via Darol Anger, but progressive .............................? (And that could open the door to cellist Julian LLoyd-Webber)


Typo on my part, I meant Simon House not Hill - check out his band High Tide


Nigel Kennedy is a classical trained violinist, who has released half a dozen or so rock and jazz albums, but classic output always outsells, e.g his Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'  sold a million. However, Kennedy has worked with John Etheridge ( of for example Soft Machine, Zappatistas, Stephane Grappelli Group) and others  as The Kennedy Experience, reinterpreting Hendrix's music - probably going further than Turtle Island SQ or Kronos Q have gone.

Strange having put the message up I was listening to Gentle Giant's "Way Of life" and there is some nice violin there - who is playing it?

The Owl wrote: Deus Ex Machina has a killer violinist in Alessandro Bonetti Mauro Paganni was PFM's violinist and flute-meister too.

Thanks, Owl. I was too lazy to go check, I guess, though the answer was but a mouse-click away on the Archives.

Paganni was good, no? Check out the lovely "Old Rain," "Just Look Away," or "Storia in la."  (Different violinist -- Gregory Bloch -- on the latter, though.)

BTW, I'm currently "researching" (for an upcoming review) my first DEM cd (Republica).

I LIKE!

 

Edited by Peter Rideout

I suppose Sharon from the Corrs is out of the question?

 

Are we talking about fiddling here or fiddling?

 

I left Dave  Swarbrick out (Fairport Convention and other  UK folk/folk rock groups) but his successor in Fairport, Ric Sanders might be considered perhaps because of his recordings with John Etheridge.

 

A little research  revealed what I should have known: Ray Shulman of Gentle Giant played the violin.

Edited by Dick Heath

And still using the music on the South Bank Show?

Dick Heath wrote: And still using the music on the South Bank Show?

 

 

That was a question!

>Ah - thought it was of the obtuse variety!

 

I can be like that but this time I was unsure whether Lord Bragg & Co still used it, seeing the programme is too late on a Sunday evening.