Jaz’N’theViolin Quintet

Jaz'N'theViolin

Jazz’N’theViolin is Kit Eakle’s performing group in tribute to ALL jazz violinists, past, present and future.

The violin has been present in jazz and all it’s antecedents from the very beginning. Jazz is a creation of the African American people. And enslaved African Americans were at the very heart of American fiddle playing. Likely spawned from the ‘Riti’ or ‘Goje‘ – or African violin tradition, there can be little doubt that the fretless sounds and the swinging bowed rhythms of the African American fiddlers of the 19th century led to the blues and then jazz. Black Violinists Matter!

The inheritors of that tradition are hereby honoured, by ALL of us in this Swingin’, Boppin’, Jazzin’, Groovin’ group of guys.