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...REGINA CARTER Rhythms of the Heart (Verve). A breakout album by a violinist who's a veteran of the jazz scene. Drawing smartly on the work of jazz violinists of the past--notably Stuff Smith and Stephane Grappelli--Carter makes music that's wonderfully listenable and, at times, breathtakingly daring. The devil never played fiddle this well...
Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...
...child but switched to jazz in high school, has played backup for some of the top performers in jazz, including Wynton Marsalis. In this album she steps into the spotlight. Her sound has echoes of the jazz-violin greats of the past: the melodic instincts of Stephane Grappelli, the sweet swing of Stuff Smith...
DIED. STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, 89, exuberant jazz violinist; in Paris. Grappelli started out as a pianist for silent films but switched to strings for the swing standards he loved. America had Ellington, but Europe got the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the 1930s--the chamber group-cum-jazz ensemble that featured Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt. The quintet broke up during World War II, but Grappelli played on--recording more than 100 albums...
Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...