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Topic: Best Violin and/or Cello in ProgPosted By: Anthony H.
Subject: Best Violin and/or Cello in Prog
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 01:00
Just a few off the top of my head:
-All the Wetton-era King Crimson -Maudlin of the Well's Part the Second -Frank Zappa's "The Gumbo Variations
What else, folks?
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Replies: Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 01:04
I'm going to be predictable.
(wait for it)
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM!
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Posted By: DreamInSong
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 02:40
Gazpacho - Night
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 03:05
David Cross for his work in King Crimson and his solo albums.
Graham Smith of VDGG, only in The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, unfortunately.
Iva Bittová, excellent solitaire from Eastern Europe.
Sergio Polizzi, excellent gem from Southern America (Argentinian band Bubu).
Jerry Goodman of Mahavishnu Orchestra and solo albums.
Jean-Luc Ponty - the same.
Ray Shulman for his incredible work for Gentle Giant.
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 09 2010 at 04:07
Gandalff wrote:
Graham Smith of VDGG, only in The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, unfortunately.
And the live album "Vital", on which you also find a cello, played by Charles Dickie. One of the best live albums ever. Also several Hammill solo albums ("Over","The Future Now", "PH7").
Other albums with violin:
High Tide's "Sea Shanties", s/t and "Precious Cargo". Several Hawkwind albums: "Warrior on the Edge of Time", "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music", "Quark, Strangeness and Charm", "PXR 5", "25 Years On", "Space Bandits","Palace Springs". Aera: "Hand und Fuß".
Multi-instrumentalist Chris Karrer of Amon Düül 2 uses violin too, but since he is a multi-instrumentalist you won't find the violin on all tracks of Amon Düül 2 albums. He is one of the wildest violinists out there.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 18:11
Anything SHANKAR touches (SHAKTI, PETER GABRIEL, THE EPIDEMICS, solo stuff, etc.)
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 21:48
Quella Vecchia Locanda Lots of nice, tasty violin
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 01:03
Gosh! I forgot excellent cellist Péter Pejtsik from transcendent After Crying!
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 04:02
Good opportunity to remind that there is violinist/celloist data base buried in PA, but has not been updated for over 18months. So please names, bands, albums, (i.e. following format shown) that should be added.
Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base
NOTES: Musicians listed alphabetically, surname. Updated at 1.00pm GMT 6th September 2008, with thanks to everybody who has contributed and continue to contribute.
Lautaro Acosta: Arti & Mestieri’s First Live In Japan 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) Billy Bang: Georgina Biddle (aka George Biddle): Skyclad Andrew Bird: with Bowl Of Fire (e.g. The Mysterious Production of Eggs) Iva Bittova: (avant violinist), e.g. Moravian Gems Nick Blaser: guest on Pythagoras' After The Silence 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 Zack Brock: e.g. 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 Doug Cameron: (jazz violinist), http://www.dougcameron.com/#/discography - http://www.dougcameron.com/#/discography Regina Carter: (jazz violinist), 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 Ben Coleman: No-Man, Trashmonk, guested with Porcupine Tree, Alice, Steve Jansen/Yukihiro Takahashi Pulse' Allison Cornell: guest on Joe Jackson's 25th Anniversary Special DVD Sharon Corr: Corrs 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, Julian Cusack: Spirogyra Charlie Daniels Linde de Groof: Aranis Ryan Delahoussaye: Blue October Joe Deninzon: Stratospheerius, Live Wires Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead) Andri Didorenko: Lost World (e.g. Awakening Of The Elements) Rod Dorothy: New Celeste 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) Katherine Fong: e.g. Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond) Faith Fraoli: Flying Island Fred Frith: solo, Henry Cow (e.g. Legend/Leg End) Michael Gallasso: solo (e.g. Scenes) 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: 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 Haydn: Lili, Light Blue Sun, Place Between Places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Haydn - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Haydn Greg Hiser: Boud Deun (e.g. Astronomy Made Easy) 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/ - http://www.christianhowes.com/ Ewa Jablonska: Indukti (e.g. S.U.S.A.R.) 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, Roxy Music, (on King Crimson's USA) Michal Jelonek: Anhk (e.g. Expected Unexpected) Helena Kallander: guest with Anekdoten (e.g. Nucleus) Mik Kaminski: Violinski, ELO Eyvind Kang: 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) Nigel Kennedy: solo (classically trained), 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) 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 Christoph Krieger: Aera (e.g. Hand und Fuß), Neue Aera Elektra Kurtis: David LaFlamme: Its A Beautiful Day Rod Lambert: Glass Hammer (e.g. Journey Of the Dunadan) Liesbeth Lambrecht: Aranis Donald Lax: Quella Vecchia Locanda Jim Lea: Slade (e.g. Coz I Luv You (single)) David Lindley: solo, Terry Reid, Jackson Browne (e.g. Running On Empty) Caryn Lin: solo (e.g. Tolerance For Ambiguity) Didier Lockwood: solo, (e.g. Phoenix 90), Gong, 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 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 Charlie McKerron: Capercaillie Lucia Micarelli; guest with Jethro Tull, (e.g. Music from a Farther Room) 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) Nash The Slash: solo, FM Rick Nelson: (also viola, cello) The Mandrake Project http://www.mandrakeproject.com/guestbook/guestbook.php?page=12 - http://www.mandrakeproject.com/guestbook/guestbook.php?page=12 Sarah Neufeld: The Arcade Fire Kita Noakil: Salle Gaveau
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 Owen Pallett: The Arcade Fire (e.g. He Poos Clouds), Has A Good Home (e.g. Final Fantasy) Matthew Parmenter; solo, Discipline etc Cleis Pearce: (also viola) The MacKenzie Theory, guested with Gilli Smyth Colin Pearson: Comus John G. Perry: Sunset Wading 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) Noel Pointer: 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) Bob Pycior: Skeletonbreath's Louise 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 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 No 1 Geoffrey Salmon: Esperanto Ric Sanders: solo, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Sanders-Etheridge Mariano Schiavolini: debut album by Celeste (Italy) Jenny Scheinmann: Thomas Schmitt: Pell Mell Jonathan Segal: Camper Van Beethoven. Zbigniew Seifert, solo, guest on Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees Igor Semenoff: Univers Zero (e.g. Implosion) L. Shankar: solo, Shakti, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa 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 Stuff Smith: jazz legend eg. Jazz ViolinSummit (with Ponty and Grappelli). 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 Jamii Szmadzinski: Shadowfax Pierre Tassone: Taylor's Free Universe. Magdalena Tatoo: Spin XXI 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: Terpandre 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) Steve Unruh: prog folk Michal Urbaniak: solo, Urbanator Eigo Utoh: Midas 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 Raymond Vincent: Esperanto
Violin Cyndee: 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 Michael White: solo , (ex. The X-Factor), Fourth Way 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 - http://www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kb.htm
String Quartet 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 - 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 to Hendrix to Robert Johnson to Chick Corea
And for good measure some violists: John Cale: solo, Velvet Underground, guest on Hector Zazou (e.g. Blue Sahara) Nicole Federici: e.g. Mahavishnu Project e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero. Hoelderlin 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:
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 04:05
BaldFriede wrote:
Gandalff wrote:
Graham Smith of VDGG, only in The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome, unfortunately.
And the live album "Vital", on which you also find a cello, played by Charles Dickie. One of the best live albums ever. Also several Hammill solo albums ("Over","The Future Now", "PH7").
I prefer the man's work in those String Driven Thing albums, especially in s/t and Machine That Cried
Cello:
Lindsey Cooper of Henry Cow
Ana-sofi Dahlberg of Anekdoten
Marko Manninen of Hoyry Kone and Alamaailman Vasarat ("Death Metal" cellos in the first two albums)
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Edit: s Dick was typing his awesome post, I am now only able to add David Rose (Ribero + Alpes, Transit Express and a few more French prog groups)
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 04:42
Flairck actually had several violinists besides Sylvia Houdzager: Luluk Purwanto,
Judy Schomper (who also played viola), Lorre Lynn Trytten (who also played kokyo, which is a Japanese violin, accordion, spinet and percussion) and Mirella Pirskanen, they also had a cello player for some time, Marieke van der Heyden.
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 07:45
BaldFriede wrote:
Flairck actually had several violinists besides Sylvia Houdzager: Luluk Purwanto, Judy Schomper (who also played viola), Lorre Lynn Trytten (who also played kokyo, which is a Japanese violin, accordion, spinet and percussion) and Mirella Pirskanen, they also had a cello player for some time, Marieke van der Heyden.
BF
Thanks. For the most part I rely on folks like you to provide such details, wrt many of these musicians - therefore I'm limited to what is provided. More given, the more I include.
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Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:11
Would be fair to add "J. L. Webber", to the list, for his work on A. L. Webbers Varriations.
Papa John Creach (RIP), for his work on the Sunfighter & Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun, two brilliant prog recordings fra early 70's by Kanter/Slick (side projects to Jefferson).
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 08:29
Here is an excellent video of Flairck, by the way The last minute is really special; I have never seen anything like it.
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 09:29
Caravan,s Geoffrey Richardson Viola top stuff
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 11:58
Oh, and I almost forgot about this album:
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 12:12
nothing more to add in this post...
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 13:52
Anything by the Dixie Dregs (Dregs) with Alan Sloan on violin.
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 15:18
BaldFriede wrote:
Here is an excellent video of Flairck, by the way The last minute is really special; I have never seen anything like it.
Don´t be angry for me, but I have felt a boredom. Something like former Ossie TV show "Ein Kessel Buntes" with a musical-clown bonus in the end.
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 15:41
What else? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZg3TX1k_g&feature=related -
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:10
Gandalff wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Here is an excellent video of Flairck, by the way The last minute is really special; I have never seen anything like it.
Don´t be angry for me, but I have felt a boredom. Something like former Ossie TV show "Ein Kessel Buntes" with a musical-clown bonus in the end.
The clip is taken from "Horton's kleine Nacxhrtmusik", which was an excellent program featuring unusual artists. To compare it with "Ein Kessel Buntes" is way off the mark,.
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 16:58
BaldFriede wrote:
[QUOTE=Gandalff][QUOTE=BaldFriede]The clip is taken from "Horton's kleine Nacxhrtmusik", which was an excellent program featuring unusual artists. To compare it with "Ein Kessel Buntes" is way off the mark,.
Unusual. Maybe. But that´s all. And my mention about Ein Kessel Buntes please discount. Your video has, that is, a little cabaret scent.
Posted By: NeoGnostic
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:28
Jerry Goodman with both "The Flock" and "Mahavishbu Orchestra"
Papa John with Jefferson Airplane, particularly the "BARK" album.
Curved Air...King Crimson...Caravan...Kansas...Mothers of Invention...
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 17:42
I was gonna mention Allan Sloane but somebodys already beat me to it.
Dick, you would have to go and ruin the thread by listing everyone. I see you even have Scarlett Rivera on the list. She did some nice solo albums I haven't heard in years.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 11 2010 at 18:37
Dick Heath wrote:
Good opportunity to remind that there is violinist/celloist data base buried in PA, but has not been updated for over 18months. So please names, bands, albums, (i.e. following format shown) that should be added.
Rock, folk, jazz violinist data base
NOTES: Musicians listed alphabetically, surname. Updated at 1.00pm GMT 6th September 2008, with thanks to everybody who has contributed and continue to contribute.
Lautaro Acosta: Arti & Mestieri’s First Live In Japan 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) Billy Bang: Georgina Biddle (aka George Biddle): Skyclad Andrew Bird: with Bowl Of Fire (e.g. The Mysterious Production of Eggs) Iva Bittova: (avant violinist), e.g. Moravian Gems Nick Blaser: guest on Pythagoras' After The Silence 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 Zack Brock: e.g. 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 Sam Bush : New Grass Revival (bluegrass) Doug Cameron: (jazz violinist), http://www.dougcameron.com/#/discography - Carter: (jazz violinist), 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 Ben Coleman: No-Man, Trashmonk, guested with Porcupine Tree, Alice, Steve Jansen/Yukihiro Takahashi Pulse' Allison Cornell: guest on Joe Jackson's 25th Anniversary Special DVD Sharon Corr: Corrs 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, Julian Cusack: Spirogyra Charlie Daniels Linde de Groof: Aranis Ryan Delahoussaye: Blue October Joe Deninzon: Stratospheerius, Live Wires Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead) Andri Didorenko: Lost World (e.g. Awakening Of The Elements) Rod Dorothy: New Celeste 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) Katherine Fong: e.g. Mahavishnu Project (e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond) Faith Fraoli: Flying Island Fred Frith: solo, Henry Cow (e.g. Legend/Leg End) Michael Gallasso: solo (e.g. Scenes) 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: Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden 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 Haydn: Lili, Light Blue Sun, Place Between Places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Haydn - Donnie Herron : Hank III (country-rock)
Greg Hiser: Boud Deun (e.g. Astronomy Made Easy) 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/ - Jablonska: Indukti (e.g. S.U.S.A.R.)
Tommy Jackson : Waylon Jennings (country-rock)
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, Roxy Music, (on King Crimson's USA) Michal Jelonek: Anhk (e.g. Expected Unexpected) Helena Kallander: guest with Anekdoten (e.g. Nucleus) Mik Kaminski: Violinski, ELO Eyvind Kang: 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)
Bridget Keating : Calexico (folk-rock)
Nigel Kennedy: solo (classically trained), 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) 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
Dora Kovats - Kolinda (folk band) Christoph Krieger: Aera (e.g. Hand und Fuß), Neue Aera Elektra Kurtis: David LaFlamme: Its A Beautiful Day Rod Lambert: Glass Hammer (e.g. Journey Of the Dunadan) Liesbeth Lambrecht: Aranis Donald Lax: Quella Vecchia Locanda Jim Lea: Slade (e.g. Coz I Luv You (single)) David Lindley: solo, Terry Reid, Jackson Browne (e.g. Running On Empty) Caryn Lin: solo (e.g. Tolerance For Ambiguity) Didier Lockwood: solo, (e.g. Phoenix 90), Gong, 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 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 Charlie McKerron: Capercaillie Lucia Micarelli; guest with Jethro Tull, (e.g. Music from a Farther Room) 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) Nash The Slash: solo, FM Rick Nelson: (also viola, cello) The Mandrake Project http://www.mandrakeproject.com/guestbook/guestbook.php?page=12 - Neufeld: The Arcade Fire Kita Noakil: Salle Gaveau
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 Owen Pallett: The Arcade Fire (e.g. He Poos Clouds), Has A Good Home (e.g. Final Fantasy) Matthew Parmenter; solo, Discipline etc Cleis Pearce: (also viola) The MacKenzie Theory, guested with Gilli Smyth Colin Pearson: Comus John G. Perry: Sunset Wading 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) Noel Pointer: 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) Bob Pycior: Skeletonbreath's Louise 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 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 No 1 Geoffrey Salmon: Esperanto Ric Sanders: solo, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, Sanders-Etheridge Mariano Schiavolini: debut album by Celeste (Italy) Jenny Scheinmann: Thomas Schmitt: Pell Mell Jonathan Segal: Camper Van Beethoven. Zbigniew Seifert, solo, guest on Charlie Mariano's Helen 12 Trees Igor Semenoff: Univers Zero (e.g. Implosion) L. Shankar: solo, Shakti, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa 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 Stuff Smith: jazz legend eg. Jazz ViolinSummit (with Ponty and Grappelli). 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
Andy Stein : Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen (country-rock)
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 Jamii Szmadzinski: Shadowfax Pierre Tassone: Taylor's Free Universe. Magdalena Tatoo: Spin XXI 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: Terpandre 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) Steve Unruh: prog folk Michal Urbaniak: solo, Urbanator Eigo Utoh: Midas 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)
Lilla Varhelyi - Kolinda (folk band)
Joe Venuti: 20's/30's jazz great Marcus Viana: Sagrado Coraçao da Terra Raymond Vincent: Esperanto
Violin Cyndee: 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 Michael White: solo , (ex. The X-Factor), Fourth Way 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 - String Quartet 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 to Hendrix to Robert Johnson to Chick Corea
And for good measure some violists: John Cale: solo, Velvet Underground, guest on Hector Zazou (e.g. Blue Sahara) Nicole Federici: e.g. Mahavishnu Project e.g. Return To The Emerald Beyond Patrick Hanappier: Univers Zero. Hoelderlin 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:
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 09:12
^
Sergio Polizzi (Bubu) is missing too.
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 16:22
MFP wrote:
^
Sergio Polizzi (Bubu) is missing too.
Péter Pejtsik (After Crying), above mentioned by myself, is missing too.
Jiří Kabeš (The Plastic People of the Universe) is missing too.
Posted By: AerosolKid74
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 16:31
PFM River of Life
------------- Prog Rock: Founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word virtuoso.
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 10:16
Many thanks to everybody for additional violinists names, and indeed inclusion of celloists (but there is a long way to go in compiling this list), since my last entry. I am very aware that I have come across other names (especially when catching up on Japanese prog and fusion bands) since the previous update of November 2008, who remain missing here. So more names please.
(BTW I'll resurrect the violinist dat base thread, and duplicate this there):
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
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, Live Wires Yvette Devereux: K2 (e.g. Book Of The Dead) Andri Didorenko: Lost World (e.g. Awakening Of The Elements) Rod Dorothy: New Celeste 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/ - - - Ewa Jablonska: Indukti (e.g. S.U.S.A.R.) 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)
Y Katsui: Bondage Fruit + (Japan)
Kimoto Kazuyoshi: Ground Zero (Japan) Nigel Kennedy: solo (classically trained), 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) 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 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
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
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 withCream, Jack Bruce (USA) Matthew Parmenter; solo, Discipline 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)
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 (who also played viola): Flairck 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). 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 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 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 - - -
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. Hoelderlin 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:
S Woolam: ELO (UK)
And Celloists:
Jack Bruce: Cream, Solo.
Lindsey Cooper: Henry Cow
Ana-sofi Dahlberg: Anekdoten
Charles Dickie: Van Der Graaf Generator’s Vital
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.: 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 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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Posted By: besotoxico
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 10:30
Jerry Goodman and Jean-Luc Ponty play a mean fiddle. Derek Shulman is pretty good. Igor Semenoff is good too. That chick from Rasputina is awesome on the Cello even though I can't stand their music. Hats must go off to Paganini though.
------------- Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it, means, not anything he says, eyes unseen, but everything is ........
So sincere, so sincere, so sincere, so sin.
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 10:51
besotoxico wrote:
That chick from Rasputina is awesome on the Cello even though I can't stand their music.
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Posted By: Norman Kiddie
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 13:54
Jean-Luc Ponty.
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 14:19
Proletariat wrote:
Eric Friedlander [...] on [...] Zorn and related stuff
I saw him live with Zorn's Masada String Trio and have to agree.
I'd love to mention the notable violinists/cellists from Univers Zéro, Julverne, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Art Zoyd.
------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 15:00
Great list there. Simon House also played for Third Ear Band, They also had some very good cellists as well: Paul Buckmaste and Ursula Smith.
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 17:48
Cellists: Truls Mork, Mischa Maisky
Just listen to these albums to convince yourself :
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
Posted By: ferush
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 18:48
The Beatles, Transatlantic, Kansas.
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 20:18
Apocolyptica (spelling?) has great cello work (...maybe because its 3 cellists and a drummer)
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Posted By: oddiyo
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 00:24
Best violin, I would have to say would be Daryl Way in Curved Air. "Vivaldi" is a great example of electric violin. As for cello, I always admired Jack Bruce. From his Cream days with "As You Said" or solo material such as "Rope Ladder to the Moon". His songs really turned me on to the cello.
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Posted By: DAVE M
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 03:07
Simon House of Hawkwind - Night of the Hawks
Geoff Richardson - Caravan
Eddie Jobson
Allan Holdsworth (1st tempest album)
Jerry Goodman - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 07:38
progkidjoel wrote:
Mia Matsumiya
Its becomeing quite scary on how we think so alike Joel.
And for Cello, probably Jackie Perez-Gratz of Grayceon/Giant Squid.
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 12:32
David Cross's work with King Crimson, specifically the live improvisations.
Don Harris's work on Hot Rats (The Gumbo Variations violin solo is insane).
I don't recall his name, but the violin on the early Mahavishnu Orchestra albums.
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 12:59
For some reason, I am absolutely in love with the cello part in "Vacant" by Dream Theater.
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: August 19 2010 at 07:56
Alquin has some fantastic violin moments on Marks. Gentle Giant also used a lot of violin on their first 4 albums, so you should listen to that. But Penguin Cafe Orchestra is the best violin use in prog, in my opinion.
Gandalff wrote:
, I am now only able to add David Rose (Ribero + Alpes, Transit Express and a few more French prog groups)
. Derek Shulman is pretty good. Igor Semenoff is good too. That chick from Rasputina is awesome on the Cello even though I can't stand their music. Hats must go off to Paganini though. 
Jean-Luc Ponty.
