What do you like most? Jazz or Classic?

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 .

Classical Violin, for me.
B

Hi Schubert, Regina Carter was given the opportunity to perform with Paganini's Guarneri, (out of th vault) then subsequently offered to do an album with it, which became "Paganini after a dream".        I read that a couple of classical men complained that they should had been the one given the chance, "why a jazz girl from Detroit than me"?  "Continue polishing your fingernails, guys....."

Agree with Spencer’s perspective. Instruments with far more overlap between Jazz and Classical music are piano, guitar, trumpet and double bass for example. More of a fair/relevant comparison of two great music genres and their respectively superb musicians .I have immense admiration and appreciation for both genres but I listen to jazz more often.
Charles