What do you like most? Jazz or Classic?

For myself, it's not the instrument the music is played on, but the music itself. There is no such instrument as a Classical violin, or a Jazz one. The difference is in the music itself, so whichever music one prefers is the determining factor. Classical is mostly formal, "written" music (a Classical violinist plays the notes the composer wrote, not those of the violinists' choosing), Jazz is to a large degree improvised (the violinist plays notes of his own choosing, based on the chord structure of the song). Very different musics.

Hello Adley, Regina Carter is a popular jazz musician high on my list.

Hi Adley,

I like them both! My first attachments to classical violin were of massed sections...what glorious harbingers of melodic line they are. Nearing twenty, I discovered it was a main-instrument fascination of mine when I was turned on to Jean-Luc Ponty in the late 70’s...couldn’t get enough of that sound for at least a couple decades! Now I’ve come full circle enough to go back to classical soloists like: Giuliano Carmignola, Isaac Stern, Heifetz, Perlman, Fabio Bondi and more. But, also including violin artists from other genres like: Alison Krauss, The Dixie Dreggs and more.

Not a lot of Jazz guys can afford a Strad

Heifetz did make everything his own , I gave away his records I bought, as  with time I wanted somebodywho made it the composers own .