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...tried to learn the violin at age three, but could only make sounds like fingernails down a blackboard,” he said...
DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, Count Basie's first recorded guitarist and a master of the jazz violin; in Kansas City, Mo. Born in Oklahoma, he supposedly helped teach a young Charlie Parker how to switch from one chord to another. He toured into his 90s and played at President Bill Clinton's second Inauguration...
...VIOLIN AND PIANO DUETS: KATHRYN ANDERSON AND DONA...
...DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, 1930s pioneer of jazz violin; in Kansas City. A fixture of Kansas City's swing scene, Williams played with Nat King Cole and recorded as a guitarist with Count Basie. He fell into obscurity after World War II and worked as a welder but gained renewed prominence while touring in the 1970s and appearing in the 1998 Broadway revue Black and Blue...
...Rahman's father died when he was nine, leaving the youngster to spend much of his adolescence hauling his violin around local recording studios in a dismal attempt to support his family. "Whenever I think of that time," he says, "I think of failure." (He hasn't forgotten those hand-to-mouth days: unlike many of his peers, Rahman pays his musicians on time and refuses to recycle earlier recordings, instead ordering fresh takes?and thereby creating more jobs?with each new score.) His big break came in 1992, when Madras-based director Mani Ratnam wanted a new sound...