I hate to confess this, but I've never been that keen on Stephane Grappelli's playing, as masterful and brilliant as he assuredly was. ("He plays with an accent," violinist and Berklee professor Rob ...

When Aaron Weinstein, a brilliant, now 28-year-old master of the hot jazz fiddle, was only 13, his life was turned around forever when he first heard a recording by the late Joe Venuti, the pioneering ...

Gabriel Dubreuil’s history with Festival du Bois is a long one, with his earliest memories not just about the music but instead the overall vibe. Raised in a proudly Francophone family on the West ...

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At first, Basil Alter shied away from talking about being one of only three U.S. violinists selected as a semifinalist in a violin competition in China this summer. That’s because to him, being ...

It all started at a luncheon. Thompson Jazz Studies Program Director John Gunther was sitting next to Assistant Professor of Violin Chas Wetherbee. They were just chatting when one of them mentioned ...

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...