Michael White (Violinist)

Michael Walter White ( born May 24, 1933, Houston, Texas) is an American violinist of the fusion and modern jazz. He is considered the first jazz violinist who earned his instrument in an avant-garde environment.

White, who grew up in Oakland (California), began with nine years of playing the violin. He became known in 1965 as a member of the quintet of John Handy by an appearance at the Monterey Jazz Festival. However, White played previously with Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane or Sun Ra. White remained until 1968 when mobile phone and took with him three plates. Then he founded with Mike Nock, Ron McClure and Eddie Marshall, the jazz-rock group "The Fourth Way ", which existed until 1971. Subsequently presented White 's groups with whom he recorded albums regularly until 1987. He continues on with Jerry Hahn, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner and George Duke.

In 1994 he toured with the original quintet by phone. In 1997 he recorded the album "Motion Picture" together with Bill Frisell. Currently, he plays in the quintet with Leisei Chen (vocals ), Michael Howell (gt ), Cecil McBee ( b ) and Kenneth Nash ( perc ) ( CD "Voices", 2006).

White teaches at the " Cornish University for the Arts " in Seattle.

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Evidence / links

• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley. Jazz Rough Guide. Stuttgart 1999
• Martin Kunzler. Jazz Encyclopedia. Vol 2 Reinbek 2002
• Biography at AllMusic
• Biography / Discography

• Jazz violinist
• Composer (Jazz)
• Fusion musicians
• American musician
• Man
• Born in 1933