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performs and records with the Jazz Passengers, Bruce Springsteen’s “Pete Seeger Project,” jazz pianist D.D. Jackson, the Roy Nathanson Quartet and Septeto Roberto Rodriguez. He has recorded two CDs of original music including the critically acclaimed Taxidermy (CIMP, 1999) and the just-released Periodic Trespasses [The Saul Cycle] (FreshSound/NewTalent).
Sam was born and raised in New York City and began studying the violin at the age of five. He abandoned formal training at fourteen to play tunes with his friends and recorded with The Connotations on CBGBs Records. He attended Wesleyan University (CT) in 1986 where he graduated with honors, studying improvisation with saxophonist Bill Barron and drummer Ed Blackwell, in addition to studies in anthropology and history. In 1991 he received a fifth year Ford Foundation Academic Associates grant to study ethnomusicology at Wesleyan.
info: www.sambardfeld.com
Jonathan Russell is a sensational ten year old violinist from New York City who performs regularly throughout the metropolitan area.
The New York
Times has written "When he solos, he embraces his instrument and
enters a private cocoon, where he conjures sophisticated improvisations
on the melodies of jazz standards".
http://www.geocities.com/jonathanjazz
Joe Venuti was the first great violinist of Jazz. The music he made with Eddie Lang would later be a major influence on Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli in France. He was born aboard a ship as his parents emigrated from Italy and trained to be a classical violinist from an early age. He met Eddie Lang in 1913 while attending school in Philadelphia and started a local group with him three years later. The two would go on to play and record with each other frequently up until Lang's death in 1933. Venuti played briefly with Red Nichols, toured with Jean Goldkette and played in the orchestra of many Broadway shows.
www adres: redhotjazz.com/venuti.html