Regina Carter

Regina Carter

female, 43 years old
Regina Carter (b. 1966) is an American jazz violinist. Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan, and began as a classical violinist but became...
Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty

male, 67 years old
Jean-Luc Ponty (born September 29, 1942, Avranches, France) is a virtuoso French violinist and jazz composer.
Joe Venuti

Joe Venuti

male, deceased (1978)
Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 - August 14, 1978) was a U.S. jazz musician and violinist. Venuti claimed to have been born aboard a ship...

Stéphane Grappelli

male, deceased (1997)
Stéphane Grappelli was a French pioneer jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt. It was one of the f...
Stuff Smith

Stuff Smith

male, deceased (1967)
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith, better known as Stuff Smith, was a jazz violinist. Smith was, along with Stéphane Grappelli and Joe Venuti, one of j...
Billy Bang

Billy Bang

male, 62 years old
Billy Bang (b. William Vincent Walker, Mobile, Alabama, September 20, 1947), is an American free jazz violinist and composer.
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman

male, 79 years old
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the...
Didier Lockwood

Didier Lockwood

male, 53 years old
Didier Lockwood is a French jazz violinist. He was born in Calais and studied classical violin and composition at the Calais Conservatory. However,...
Leroy Jenkins

Leroy Jenkins

male, deceased (2007)
Leroy Jenkins was an American composer and free jazz violinist and violist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jenkins became a music teacher after...