Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century. Early jazz violinists included Eddie South who played violin with Jimmy Wade’s Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; Claude Fiddler Williams who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy. Joe Venuti was best known for his work with guitarist Eddie Lang during the 1920s.
