The Jazz Violin Podcast

Episode 44 - Dominic Ingham

Dom Ingham is an excellent young UK based violinist and composer. 
 
http://www.dominicingham.com/welcome
 
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 43 - Eva Slongo

Eva Slongo is Swiss violinist and composer based in France. She studied with Didier Lockwood at the CMDL and now creates and performs her own original music as well as teaching countless others how to play jazz violin. She has a fantastic playing style, feel and a terrific command of her instrument.
 
https://www.evaslongo.com/
 
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 42-Nora Germain

Nora Germain is a jazz violinist and author based in LA. She has played on countless albums and soundtracks as well as producing 10 of her own albums as a bandleader.
http://www.noragermain.com/
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 41 - Ben Holder

Ben Holder is a UK jazz violinist based in the Midlands. A stalwart of the British jazz scene and a household name to fans of UK swing and jazz.
https://www.benholdermusic.co.uk/
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 40 - Mario Forte

Mario Forte is an improvising violinist based between NYC and Europe. 
http://www.marioforte.com/
 
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 39 - Grappelli Special with Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor is a British guitarist based in Scotland. He was a longstanding collaborator with Stephane Grappelli and now tours the world and has taught thousands of guitarists around the world through his online academy.
https://martintaylor.com/
 
If you want to support the podcast or join my Jazz Violin Practise Club go to https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn
 
 

Episode 38 - Yannick Hiwat

Yannick Hiwat is a violinist, composer and educator based in the Netherlands. 
https://yannickhiwat.com/
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club, check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn
 
Check out Charlie MacCarthy's new book 'Post-Classical Violin' here.
https://www.postclassicalviolin.com/

Episode 37 -Laura Risk on Ginger Smock

It was pleasure to chat with excellent fiddler and scholar Laura Risk about the life, career and music of the amazing Ginger Smock.
Check out her article in Strings Magazine below
https://stringsmagazine.com/ginger-smock-first-lady-of-the-jazz-violin/
You can buy her music below from AB Fable, an excellent archive and record label devoted to jazz violin gems. You will be able to find many rare jazz violin recordings here.
http://www.abar.net/
 
Check out Laura's Website below too.
https://laurarisk.com/

Episode 36 - Miguel Atwood Ferguson

Miguel Atwood Ferguson is an improvising violinist, violist, composer, arranger and orchestrator for many left-field electronic, jazz, soul, hiphop and pop acts. 
https://www.miguelatwoodferguson.com/
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club, check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 35 - Ben Powell

Ben Powell is an english violinist based in Texas US. Check out his website below
 
https://www.ben-powell.com/
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club, check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 34 - Evan Price

Evan Price is a violinist from the USA, he has played with the Turtle Island String Quartet and is a master improvisor.
 
https://www.evanpricemusic.com/
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club, check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 33 - Johanna Burnheart

Johanna Burnheart is a German violinist based in London UK. Her new album is coming out of Ropeadope Records on October 30th 2020. 
Disclaimer-I pronounce her name wrong in the introduction, it is actually pronounced 'Yohanna"...
 
https://johannaburnheart.bandcamp.com/album/burnheart
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club, check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 32 - Adam Bałdych

Adam Bałdych is a Polish jazz violinist, one of the best and most original in the world. Enjoy
 
To support the podcast or to get involved with my Jazz Violin Practise Club  check out my Patreon below
https://www.patreon.com/mattholborn

Episode 31 Matt Glaser

Matt Glaser is a fiddler, educator, and author, who has performed with Stephane Grappelli, David Grisman, Lee Konitz, Bob Dylan, J. Geils, Leo Kottke, Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Kenny Werner, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, the Waverly Consort, Fiddle Fever, and the Wayfaring Strangers. He is artistic director of the American Roots music program at Berklee College of Music, after serving as string department chair for twenty-eight years, and has mentored thousands of musicians.
 
https://www.berklee.edu/people/matt-glaser
 
Jazz Violin Practise Sessions and Workshops
 
I am running some sessions practising scales and arpeggios in fun ways as well as looking at different jazz tunes and working on how to improvise with them. If you are interested in getting involved during the month of August please get in touch via bookings@mattholborn.com. Check out some examples of the sessions below.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9RhQ41VSl8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGoKompRCQ

Episode 30 - Ernst Reijseger (Seifert Competition special)

Ernst Reijseger is a Dutch cellist and is one of the judges of this years (2020) Seifert Competition. To watch this years competition or find out more info about the semi finalists follow this link https://seifertcompetition.com/en/
 
Patreon
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
Jazz Violin Classes
I am running some very successful and busy zoom sessions at the moment to help people get into playing jazz, its a great thing to get yourself stuck into whilst you wait for your gigs to start again. If you want and info on these sessions email bookings@mattholborn.com
 
 
 

Episode 29 - Sara Caswell

Sara Caswell is a Grammy award nominated violinist based in New York. She is a faculty member at Berklee College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.
https://saracaswell.com/
 
Patreon
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
Locked in the Green Room
https://linktr.ee/mattholborn
A 'Green Room' is the musicians limbo, it is where we sit and wait for our gig to start. We as musicians now all find ourselves in a huge green room whilst we wait patiently for our gigs to start again. So please join me in this virtual green room where I will be chatting to different musicians around the world, from all genres and areas of music.
We cover everything and anything about living in this new world of social distancing.

Special with Jason Anick and Jake Brillhart

Jason Anick is an amazing jazz violinist based in the USA and Jake Brillhart is the super talented violin maker behind this amazing project, helping musicians all over in this time of need.
To get involved with the project, either to buy raffle ticket to win the violin or to get financial help from the fund follow the link above.
 
https://sevenstarsarts.rallyup.com/5db3a6

Episode 28 - Regina Carter

Regina Carter is an American violinist and composer, she probably needs no introduction. She is one of the greatest violinists around and I was honoured to have her spend the time to chat with me.
 
http://www.reginacarter.com/
 
Patreon
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
Locked in the Green Room
https://linktr.ee/mattholborn
A 'Green Room' is the musicians limbo, it is where we sit and wait for our gig to start. We as musicians now all find ourselves in a huge green room whilst we wait patiently for our gigs to start again. So please join me in this virtual green room where I will be chatting to different musicians around the world, from all genres and areas of music.
We cover everything and anything about living in this new world of social distancing.
 
 
 
 

Episode 27 - Billy Contreras

Billy Contreras is a violinist based around Nashville USA. He is one of my favourite players and I was really excited to chat to him about what he has been working on recently. 
I have started a new podcast called....
Locked in the Green Room
https://linktr.ee/mattholborn
A 'Green Room' is the musicians limbo, it is where we sit and wait for our gig to start. We as musicians now all find ourselves in a huge green room whilst we wait patiently for our gigs to start again. So please join me in this virtual green room where I will be chatting to different musicians around the world, from all genres and areas of music.
We cover everything and anything about living in this new world of social distancing.
 
Patreon
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
 
The music at the beginning of the episode is from a video of Billy playing Au Privave in all twelve keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5BVE0S-rJw
 
I feature a new release at the end from Dominic Ingham called 'Phones', coming out May 1st 2020
http://www.dominicingham.com/
 
 

Episode 26-Bastien Ribot

Bastien Ribot is a french violinist based in Paris. He plays with his own band the RP Quartet as well as with countless others in the French jazz scene.
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
 
The music at the beginning of the episode is from Bastiens new record out now with the RP quartet
 
https://www.rpquartet.com/
 
I feature a new release at the end from my own project the London Django Collective
https://www.londondjangocollective.com/
‘It passed me by’ by Jeremie Coullon

Episode 25 - Aaron Weinstein

Aaron Weinstein is a jazz violinist and mandolinist based in NYC. He plays with incredible feel and has a style steeped heavily in jazz language and musicality.
 
http://www.aaronweinstein.net/
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
 
The music at the beginning of the episode is 'Makin Whoopee' played by Aaron Weinstein
 
I feature a new release at the end from my own project the London Django Collective
https://www.londondjangocollective.com/
‘Marrakech’ by Kourosh Kanani

Episode 24-Thomas Gould

Thomas Gould is a classical violinist who also plays great jazz. He has played with a whole host of British jazz legends and continues to play with musicians like Gwilym Simcock and Liam Noble. He also tours the world as a classical soloist.
 
http://www.thomasgould.com/
 
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
 
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
 
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
 
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
 
The music at the beginning of the episode is ‘Sweet Tamarind’ from an album with Thomas Gould, Liam noble and Jim Rattigan
 
I feature a new release at the end from my own project the London Django Collective 
https://www.londondjangocollective.com/ 
‘Carte Blanche’ by Matt Holborn

Episode 23 - Mads Tolling

Mads Tolling is a Danish violinist based in the U.S. He has played with the Turtle Island String Quartet, Stanley Clarke and many others. Great sound, amazing technique and full of bop language, one of my favourite players!
http://madstolling.com/
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
The music at the beginning of the episode is Mads composition 'Take off Blues'
I feature a new release at the end from my own project the London Django Collective https://www.londondjangocollective.com/ 'Katz out the bag' by Robin Katz

Episode 22-In memory of Steve Aston with Bar Zalel (extra October episode)

All music featured in this episode can be purchased from the link below (all proceeds go to the Steve Aston Foundation)
 
https://grimaldicinematique.bandcamp.com/
 
You can donate to the Steve Aston Foundation via the link below
 
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/steve-aston-foundation
 
Steve Aston was a composer, guitarist and amazing human being. Sadly Steve passed away earlier this year and myself and Bar have been involved in releasing the music he composed and recorded over the last 7 years.
There is a limited edition Double Vinyl available from the links above, Steve had wanted to have his music on vinyl before he passed so we felt it was important to make that happen. Both myself and Bar have been involved in his music from the beginning so we thought we would record this little episode as a homage to Steve and to try and shine a little light on our good friends amazing musical legacy.

Episode 21-Fiona Monbet

Fiona Monbet
Fiona Monbet is a French violinist, composer and conductor based in Paris. She was a protégé of Didier Lockwood and spent many years learning and touring with him from the age of 10 years old. She has a number of albums out in her own name all available from her website and all streaming services.
https://www.fionamonbet.com/
You can become a patron of the podcast on Patreon by following this link
https://www.patreon.com/Jazzviolinpodcast
Becoming a patron of the podcast means that you are directly helping the podcast continue. This is a chance for you to help out with the running costs of the podcast, if you feel like you get a lot out of my interviews you can be a part of it by donating a small amount of money.
I will be creating one extra monthly show specifically for my patrons. This is either an interview with a musician I know from the jazz scene or I also create episodes where I listen back to previous shows and chat about some key points that my guests bring up. There are so many great ideas and concepts that these amazing musicians bring up and I would like to share with you some of my favourites!
The music at the beginning of the episode is Fiona Monbets composition 'Valse' from her most recent album 'Contrebande'
I feature a new release at the end from my own project the London Django Collective https://www.londondjangocollective.com/ 'Samoreau' by Harry Diplock