Any instrument can be used to play jazz if you just believe hard enough!

@ILoveHighNotes

11 ай бұрын

Кроме гобоя.

@henzwang

11 ай бұрын

Even mayonnaise

@nontendiswotch7937

11 ай бұрын

yeah mate i love playing a bit off jazz euphonium

@macomputersuck

11 ай бұрын

What about bagpipes?

@mikechad27

11 ай бұрын

​@@henzwangah, beat me to it

As someone who's teaching jazz to some violins and cellos, thank you for giving me something to show them

@zonedutopia

11 ай бұрын

Monsters Inc. soundtrack could be something

@mtdnelson

11 ай бұрын

Just introduce them to Stéfane Grappelli, surely? 😂 (Or Didier Lockwood, Dorado Schmitt, etc.)

@tomgxz

11 ай бұрын

Zach Brock from snarky puppy is an exceptional jazz violinist. You should check out his solo on the album version of 34 klezma, or this version of lingus which he soloed over kzread.info/dash/bejne/in6VlrmNdMqzdrg.html could be useful :)

@callumwalsh6184

11 ай бұрын

Also Zac Brock's violin playing on some Snarky Puppy stuff like 34 Klezma

@tjenadonn6158

10 ай бұрын

Check Jean Luc Ponty (extensive solo career as well as playing with the likes of Frank Zappa and Chick Corea,) Jerry Goodman (really prolific but is most famous for his work on Mahavishnu Orchestra's first three albums) and David Cross (more of a rock violinist, most famous for his work with King Crimson in the 1970s.)

Legends say this violin gave birth to a fiddle shortly after the solo

Finally some representation for my instrument in this genre!! Thank you George

@noahyudkin5458

11 ай бұрын

Have you heard of stephane grapelli? Look him up, absolutely wonderful player

@tjenadonn6158

11 ай бұрын

Look up Frank Zappa's album "Hot Rats." Features absolutely top tier playing by Sugarcane Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty, both of whom are titans of jazz violin. Mahavishnu Orchestra also featured amazing violin work from Jerry Goodman on their first three albums "The Inner Mounting Flame," "Birds of Fire," and "Between Nothingness and Eternity." More recent acts like the jazz-prog-metal-who really knows ensemble Thank You Scientist and electroswing legends Caravan Palace are keeping jazz violin in the zeitgeist.

@matthewmunzner8124

11 ай бұрын

@@noahyudkin5458 Man Stephane Grappelli is incredible, all of his stuff with Django is gold, and I really enjoy his album with Michel Petrucciani.

@DeathAngel1029

8 ай бұрын

@@noahyudkin5458Stephen Grapelli, Regina Carter, Karen Briggs, Didier Lockwood, John Blake 😍

@Moderrnclassic

7 ай бұрын

@@noahyudkin5458yo facts bro. Guys a legend.

"Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session" and Stephane Grappelli & Django Reinhardt's Djangology are 2 EXCELLENT albums filled with the best examples of strings playing jazz that have ever been recorded.

Every solo from this performance is phenomenal! Definitely one of my favorite renditions of this tune!

Just anotha day of George putting Twoset out of business

Then he busts out some blues to prove them wrong?

@SebaBuenoHaceMusiquitaJijiji

11 ай бұрын

😅

Literally how the hell is he even doing that

@AcidSpitter783

11 ай бұрын

It just takes practice

@AggroSamurai

11 ай бұрын

​@@AcidSpitter783captain obvious strikes again

@thewiddler1746

11 ай бұрын

When you rub the bow on the strings it makes a sound. Literally

@peterlane7042

11 ай бұрын

He's definitely sliding in and out of notes. My understanding is that due to the high tension of the strings, you can't really bend notes.

@aidench3.14

11 ай бұрын

With all due respect to Mark, the actual melodic line he is playing is very, very simple. The beauty lies in his musicianship and improvisation. He simply adds a few glissandos (slides) as he plays

I played in a lead sheet inspired type university jazz band for 4 years with a 2 violinists at one point. One of them was the main drummer so he only played occasional solos.

Mark was incredible. Really enjoyed his wonderful playing with Steve Morse’s Dregs.

To be fair violin is quite an accomplished instrument in Gypsy jazz and have been for a while. For example the early recordings of Django Reinhardt. But it is nice to see it get some more recognition 😊

If a bass violin can be used for jazz, so can a soprano!

I’ll never understand why some people think some instruments, “can’t play jazz.” I can almost understand that statement theoretically as some instruments that are played only in singular keys will be severely limited when some tunes modulate through multiple key centers-but even then you can improvise rhythmically like many percussionists do.

I swear it doesn’t even sound like a violin half the time

@Propernoob56

11 ай бұрын

it sounds like a violin bro you trippin

@quandabulous_g_official1937

11 ай бұрын

@@Propernoob56nah at the beginning it sounds like a soprano sax and towards the end it sounds more like a guitar with the triplet patterns 💀

@cultistsash

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a fiddle.

@yolocomics5468

11 ай бұрын

What kinda violin u been listening to 😂

@____Cookie____

11 ай бұрын

Might I introduce you to the fiddle

Nobody... says that?

It's funny how people, musicians, jazz musicians don't recognize violins can do jazz. There are great examples of jazz fiddle featuring on Louis Armstrong tracks. Gershwin writing jazz music for symphony orchestra. Theres literally whole genres, like Western Swing, or Hot Club Jazz where jazz violin is a not just present, but a cornerstone of the genre.

that's why they separate violin and fiddle even though they are literally the same instrument

@Kishuy

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I still dont understand the separation and I've been playing violin for 10 years now

Just play anything from Stéphane Grappelli and you know how jazz sounds on a violin!

@harro9634

11 ай бұрын

nuff said

@Miglow

11 ай бұрын

That's not just Grapelli. It's a whole genre, Hot club jazz.

@mtdnelson

11 ай бұрын

​@@MiglowYeah, and there are plenty of great violinists in that style, but Stéfane Grappelli was the one who created it, along with the Hot Club.

@Miglow

11 ай бұрын

@@mtdnelson props to Grapelli. But he gets his due. I see a dozen comments mentioning him. How many have mentioned other successful jazz violinists like Regina Carter?

I love how the tune swings between fiddling and jazz

THANK YOU FOR TRANSCRIBING THIS

If you say that you've obviously not listened to Snarky Puppy enough, Zach Brock's playing with them is terrific!!!

Yeaaaah, great solo man, very amazing

You nailed it bro!

There's a podcast called Centuries of Sound, so each episode is recordings from one specific year. (Early episodes were a couple of years together as there were so few recordings). There was a lot of jazz featuring violin in the early 20th century recordings. It just wouldn't be my cup of tea if I had a choice of other instruments to play jazz.

Mark O'Connor is phenomenal! He's a bluegrass master, a very creative composer and arranger and just incredible when improvising. As a classical violinist myself, his renditions of Bach's solo pieces are at least very interesting and captivating, as he integrates fiddle technique in the repetitions imitating the embellishments of the baroque period. Furthermore, his own Caprice for solo violin dedicated to the legend Yehudi Menuhin was a mandatory piece in Menuhin Competitions some years ago. This, I think, is the powerful connection music should bring among different genres and musicians!

Dude slides are so much fun on violin! I totally recommend learning to play music with them. A good one I've played is called Waltz of the Wicked.

If people say that, all I can say is: Stepháne Grapelli, Don "Sugarcane" Harris and Jean-Luc Ponty

@Miglow

11 ай бұрын

Ahem *cough* Vassar Clements.

Amazing job by Jud.

I've seen violin parts in jazz scores, there's also people like Jean luc ponty who bridges genre gaps

Is that John Batiste on piano?

@marybanbog3954

11 ай бұрын

Yup!

@bjorn-falkoandreas9472

11 ай бұрын

So I was not going insane! Looks like him having a whale of a time.

Legendary Jon Batiste on the keys. Making the Batiste family and all of NOLA proud!

The only time I've seen a violinist jump up and down like that as they played was at a bluegrass show. Spectacular!

Do people still really believe that violins don't belong in jazz? What about banjo? Clarinet? Tuba? Lots of the early jazz instruments got pushed out in the big band era and bebop, etc., and don't end up in high school or college jazz ensembles anymore. But so what? They're part of the roots and legacy of the genre! And have people never heard Western swing? That's basically just big band jazz with vocals and violins (or, as they probably call them, "fiddles"). Literally any instrument can be part of any genre if the player has sensitivity, chops and style. But the violin in particular can definitely belong in jazz, and I didn't know that was even controversial!

Can you transcribe Oblivion performed by Adam Rapa? His playing is on another level

I forgot his him, but he was a bluegrass/fiddle champion when he was a kid and now he composes technically challenging contemporary pieces for Yehudi Menuhin competitions and some other prestigious violin competitions.

Okay let's be real, who even said that? I don't think anyone worth listening to actually would gatekeep jazz like that

@richardharrold9736

11 ай бұрын

Exactly, someone who's evidently never heard Stéphane Grappelli.

@isaacthomas6544

11 ай бұрын

Right, like hot club jazz is right there lol

@Alceste_

11 ай бұрын

Probably some classical folks, heh.

@nilsniemeier5345

11 ай бұрын

​@@richardharrold9736Or Stuff Smith. Or Joe Venuti.

@minephlip

10 ай бұрын

A really good trombone player who played a lot of jazz gigs actually told me that when I showed some interest in joining a performance with my violin, and his friends pretty much all agreed that the violin doesn't belong. Guess they were just wrong, this sounds amazing. But to be fair to them, it turns the sound more into a fiddle/country style, away from more pure jazz I guess

Awesome 😮😍

I accidentally clicked the video and I seriously thought it was a sopranino sax solo.

Everybody enjoyed that

When someone says a violin can't play jazz, it's a sure sign a violin bullied them mercillesly in middle school

I would never have thought of a violin playing jazz music. Brilliant!

@richardharrold9736

11 ай бұрын

Stéphane Grappelli. Nuff said.

@Wintermute0168

11 ай бұрын

Wow...yer so brave to admit it!

@missy1806

11 ай бұрын

@@Wintermute0168 Are you being serious or sarcastic? Soz but it's hard to tell via chat lol

@Wintermute0168

11 ай бұрын

@@missy1806 sorry, the stupidity got to me, i'll edit.

@missy1806

11 ай бұрын

@@Wintermute0168 Now you have really confused me lol Either way I don't mind what you think or write. They are you're own opinions regardless, and you have as much right as anyone else to write them 😀

Aw make it talk don. Make it talk.

In my channel the jazz violin is a MUST

Congratulations you’ve just discovered Texas swing

Oh please! Joe Venuti, Mark O’Connor, Stefan Grapelli, Johnny Gimble, Larry Franklin, Kenny Sears, Joe Spivey with the Time Jumpers. Hoot Hester, Tiny Olsen, and more.

Is that Mark O'Connor on violin. I love his "In the Cluster" blues.

I mean... Anyone who thinks violin can't play jazz NEEDS to listen to either of the two amazing albums Jean Luc Ponty recorded with George Duke in 1969 "Live at Donte's" and "The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio." Mind. BLOWING.

@mdhbigdog

10 ай бұрын

And before that was Jean-Luc Ponty's 1972 masterpiece album, "Sunday Walk."

why does this sound wild west ish

This is fantastic! Does anyone if there is piano sheet music for this and at what measure the piano starts playing with the violin?

I can hear country music and jazz at the same time

@izzymcgdog7653

11 ай бұрын

I think it's blues right?

@LJMadrigalMusic

11 ай бұрын

same here.. Can't unhear country when a violinist plays like this..

Never adapt to someone elses belief systems. You are the creator of your reality. I had to learn this the hard way.

Wait until you hear about a game called Bioshock, sound track go crazy with violin and jazz

stephen grapelli type violin

wow

Waw so thrilling

I LAUGHED BAD, HELPPPP

Stephane Grappelli is the jazz violin GOAT!

He's good! But this is like playing doom metal with an oboe.

@griffindrucker5712

11 ай бұрын

I want to see that now lol. I know there’s a way to make it work, probably with effects pedals or something.

@qfmarsh64

11 ай бұрын

If it exists, George will find it. (I think that's Rule 35.)

@ytpanda398

11 ай бұрын

There is a video somewhere of someone covering necrophagist songs on a bass clarinet. It's amazing

it's like honky tonk jazz though

Навсегда одним из самых любимых альбомов Дюка Эллингтона будет его jass violin session. ❤

Show me an instrument that can’t be used in Jazz and I’ll show you a lack of imagination

hands of god on the piano there

PREACH!!!!!!!!!!

It’s fiddle time folks

I think I remember being at a concert where Jon Luc Ponty played a jazz violin. c.e. 1970ish

Zack Brock would like a word

Any Stéphane Grappelli tune

holy fucking shit

sound like some woodys roundup type

We said violin cant play jazz, and so he played us like a fiddle.

❤❤❤

gyat damn

gave me the stank

bluejazz

You can play jazz on anything.

@jean-lucpicard3012

11 ай бұрын

Even mayonnaise?

do grappelli’s viola jazz!

He was the only one sweating

Somebody said bluegrass?

Cant simply put labels on instruments

And band with Jon batiste in it is gonna be bangin

this is just a regular Tom & Jerry episode

Jazz Manouche.. There’s a whole genre of jazz violin... Who is saying violin can’t play jazz?

@DeathAngel1029

8 ай бұрын

Jazz used to be part of the ensemble before the big band era and the violin was drowned out

@PrinceFrogFrog

8 ай бұрын

@@DeathAngel1029 Jazz manouche experienced a resurgence in the mid 1970s... Also the genres coexisted. It’s not like one drowned out the other. Violin in jazz didn’t end when Jazz left the ensemble

Said no one ever... Guess you've never heard of Stephan Grapelli?

violin can't play jazz, this is a fiddle solo duh...

As long as an instrument can play notes or produce a beat, it can play any genre. It's the musician's lack of creativity that puts limits to the instruments.

Stephan. Grapelli. Plays. A. 🎻 violin. In. His. Jazz. Music. So. It. Can. Be. Done

....what? Who has ever said that?

Anyone else notice Winton Marsalis at a minute in?

Reminds me of Simcity

@filliiiii7

Ай бұрын

What??😂😂😂😂

Seriously, can someone start using Paganini techniques in jazz solos?

Well... Jump Blues... or Swing... early Chubby Checker New Orleans R&R... I thought I was going to hear some diminished and chromatic lines.

When dummies say that introduce them to Stéphane Grappelli!

When you realize jazz and country have the same origins

That's literally what blue grass music is

Let's see Paul Allen's guitar

Stéphane Grappelli was an extraordinary jazz violinist!

@LaurenceMartinSask

9 ай бұрын

He sure was!

Isso não deveria ser humanamente possível..

if anything violin is uniquely suited for jazz

why would anyone say that though