Please post or describe your faves.
Jerry Goodman's soloing here I think is superb:
There are several more I can think of but let's see what y'all think (if there's interest).
Cheers!
Please post or describe your faves.
Jerry Goodman's soloing here I think is superb:
There are several more I can think of but let's see what y'all think (if there's interest).
Cheers!
^^^ I am (not unusually, I suspect) off topic, here...
...but I recently watched most of a movie which has somehow eluded me, or I it all these years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Had this recurring, very tasty New Orleansish is the only way I can describe it, violin. Found myself thinking "Is that Grappelli?", whom I have always promised myself I'd investigate and have not (yet. Yet! For there is still time.) followed through.
Habitual credit reader that I am I persevered through to the music portion of the roll and behold! The reveal showed Jerry Goodman on violin.
I think the year of release on the film is something like 1988. I have done some Goodman and related musical research in my time, but it never gave me any indication of the joys of his playing in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Delightful.
Closer to topic, perhaps my all time favorite violin lead is Jean-Luc Ponty on the first track from the album Civilized Evil, Demagomania.
The tune starts out deceptively simple, almost banal. It gradually establishes solid pacing; the rhythm section of Mark Craney and Randy Jackson groove fiercely all over the album. They lay what becomes a strong foundation for another (yet another) fine Allan Zavod keys solo...
...and then...
...the time of the piece is doubled (or halved, depending how you look at it), and it's time for JLP's solo.
The man always plays tasteful, well drawn and thought out, melodically wonderful solos, but this one is something special, something to be savored. Over and over again I've listened and it always goes straight to my adrenals, it's always thrilling.
Again he starts out, as the piece itself did, deliberately, or probably more accurately, with deliberation. And again as the piece itself, the intensity in his playing builds and accelerates, until at the last when he's playing two notes at a time, our credulity, or mine at least, is stretched beyond limitations. "You did NOT just do that!"
(This is something I think during every Allan Holdsworth solo, and for me has become a personal benchmark for a great solo, great soloing.)
The entire Civilized Evil recording has over time, gradually become perhaps my favorite JLP (yes, even over Enigmatic Oceans. Or, my other personal favorites, Cosmic Messenger and A Taste For Passion), but that first track, Demagomania, one of my all-timers from anyone, anywhere, ever.
Great, great get up and go, first thing in the morning music. Like a coupla cappuccinos!
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Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know.
Raymond Vincent’s crazy gypsy violin is just out of this world! And that piano solo!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
The havoc Didier Lockwood creates on Magma Live...RIP.
Insane virtuosity:
A less interesting track but the solo ! starts at 3:03
Also my first thought.Originally Posted by Zappathustra
Michał Urbaniak is way too 'unknown'
Late Zbigniew Seifert in a stellar lineup. (Volker Kriegel, John Marshall, Eberhard Weber, a.o.)
I really like Allen Sloan (Dixie Dregs) tone and phrasing, but dont recall any solos as such.
Jean-Luc Ponty. Outstanding !
Hoelderlin - Die Stadt
Not a violin, but a viola, but I don't care.
Didier Lockwood on Dutch television.
All great choices, love Seifert, Shankar and Lockwood and looking forward to checking out ones with which I'm unfamiliar. Thanks!
^^ I'm also very fond of Sugarcane Harris's work on The Little House I Used To Live In from Burnt Weeny Sandwich.
David Rose
Steve Kindler (to me mostly known for his work in Jan Hammer group)
Ric Sanders in the band 2nd Vision (He also plays on Soft Machine - Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris 1977)
Oh, me too! One of my favorite violin solos of all time housed in one of my favorite Zappa tracks of all time!
Kindler also plays the lovely violin “candenza” at the end of Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Pastoral,” a solo that is always misattributed to JLP.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
A nice little bit of Jean Luc Ponty at 6:55:
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
All great suggestions... I'm inclined to mention Mauro Pagani in PFM but I can not think of any specific solo
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Not really Prog (the Keyboard Lady plays in a real Prog band) but awesome
anyway, also not a real solo but lead violin the whole way through.
Sword of the Far East with the enchanting Ayasa on Violin
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