Christian Howes: Blues for the Blues Violin article by Ian Patterson, published on September 27, 2010 at All About Jazz. Find more Interview articles All About Jazz Essentials ...

Israeli jazz violinist Omer Ashano started playing ... were the influencers who exposed Omer to the styles of Blues, Rock n' Roll and Jazz as well as the ideas and possibilities surrounding ...

My mother was a real music lover who always played an eclectic mix of blues ... symphonic jazz composer David Baker. Anderson would point to us and shout, "Stand up, take a solo." Improvisation ...

At 17, he was a gifted violinist ... Howes to demonstrate improvisation to undergraduate and graduate classical string players. “He was kind of like the pied piper for jazz string playing ...

His first improvisation session ... many different facets of jazz with his quartet. As he embarks upon a European tour, the musician tells us about exploring the Blues and its meaning for Black ...

Like most genres, jazz spread and became regionalised among diverse cultures around the world. It is centred around improvisation, blues scales, call and response vocals, a layer of varying ...

With a background as diverse as her sound, violinist ... jazz on such a historic instrument would debase the value of it,” Carter says. “But what people forget is that jazz is about ...

People still create and perform jazz and blues music today. They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on instruments like the guitar, piano and harmonica. Singing is ...

The Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Jazz and Improvisation is for musicians pursuing careers in jazz, studio recording, and performance in contemporary idioms (popular, world, experimental). The core ...

I had to almost stop classical violin to really humble myself to start all over again as a beginner jazz player and expose myself to different types of improvisation. I played a lot of gigs that ...