[78-L] Jazz violin, mostly Hernan Oliva

[David Sanderson]

yves francois wrote:
> I saw that Michel Warlop has been mentioned (and should be mentioned
> more than Stéphane IMHO, though I think SG did age very well, like a
> fine wine, I think between playing with Shearing and playing better
> violins* a lot of the early problems seem to be eliminated), he is ,
> along w Svend Asmussen one of my favorite violin players, however, we
> missed one on this thread Hernan Oliva. Oliva was in the first Aleman
> Quintet when he came back to Argentina (the second combo's violin
> player was not in the same class IMHO), but if you really want to

Thanks - one more to look for.  As a bit of a fiddle player myself, I 
find Grappelly's delicacy of tone and touch wonderful - he was never an 
aggressive player like some others, and perhaps your taste for his later 
work comes from his being more aggressive than he had been.  I read 
somewhere recently that though he learned originally without lessons, 
much later he studied with a Classical player in London, and picked up a 
good deal from it.  One of the interesting things about the two 
Reinhardt cuts we have talked about is how delicate he is himself, 
though I wonder how much of the result has to do with forcing his 
injured left hand to cooperate.

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      David Sanderson
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