Possible Poll: Violinists (& Violists)
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Topic: Possible Poll: Violinists (& Violists)
Posted By: Dick Heath
Subject: Possible Poll: Violinists (& Violists)
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 09:14
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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 |
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 09:27
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The violin in classic PFM was excellent, too! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Add David Cross (ex Crimson), Dick.
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 09:47
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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")
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 14:52
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I dont' see Daryl Way there (Curved Air's original violinist), a must. Simon House (Hawkwind guest violinist, Palace Springs) I suppose Sharon from the Corrs is out of the question?
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Posted By: progchain
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 14:56
| If you like this stuff listen to the eponymous "Fuchsia" album! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 15:15
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How about the incredible Kronos quartet? http://www.kronosquartet.org/ - http://www.kronosquartet.org/ Tentative addition to the list, maybe... Progressive definitely - worth checking out!
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 15:36
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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? |
Posted By: The Owl
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 15:49
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Deus Ex Machina has a killer violinist in Alessandro Bonetti Mauro Paganni was PFM's violinist and flute-meister too.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 11 2004 at 19:06
Paganni was good, no? Check out the lovely "Old Rain," "Just Look Away," or "Storia in la." BTW, I'm currently "researching" (for an upcoming review) my first DEM cd (Republica). I LIKE!
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
The Owl wrote:
Thanks, Owl. I was too lazy to go check, I guess, though the answer was but a mouse-click away on the Archives.
(Different violinist -- Gregory Bloch -- on the latter, though.)Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 01:19
Darryl Way must be on the list.Listen to Curved Air's 'Vivaldi'. Darryl was the 'Emerson of The Violin' 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 11:07
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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. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 13:26
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The idea of the Corrs being prog is tempting - that way we'd get loads of pictures of them up on the site... And Julian Lloyd Webber plays a fairly mean cello on his brother's Variations on a theme of Paganini - which is as prog as prog gets...
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 12 2004 at 18:52
| And still using the music on the South Bank Show? |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 13 2004 at 01:58
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Um... what's wrong with that? The South Bank Show only uses variation 4 (or 5 - can't remember offhand...). If you haven't heard the full suite, I would recommmend it. There are one or two duff variations, but there is some stunning guitar work from Gary Moore, Phil Collins has the helm on percussion, Herbie Flowers on bass - and some beautiful flute work from Mary Hopkin. I forget who does the sax - but that's "nice" as well. Of course, full credit to Lloyd-Webber for having brought it all together. I'd also recommend Rachmaninov's version |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 13 2004 at 04:17
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That was a question! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 13 2004 at 05:27
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Ah - thought it was of the obtuse variety! Still don't understand - haven't got my lateral thinking head on today...
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: May 13 2004 at 08:49
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>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. |