Name Michael White Role Violinist | Music group The Fourth Way | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Albums The Land of Spirit and Light, Pneuma, Spirit Dance, Father Music - Mother D, Spirit Dance / Pneuma Similar People Kenneth Nash, Cecil McBee, Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Eddie Marshall | ||
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Michael Walter White (born 24 May 1930 - died 06 December 2016) was an American jazz violinist.
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White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. His initial career break occurred in 1965, when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and subsequently recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first jazz violinists to play jazz rock fusion (with his band The Fourth Way). He has played with musicians such as Sun Ra, Prince Lasha, McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, and Richard Davis. In early 2007, The Michael White Quintet's "Mechanical Man" won in The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Jazz Song.
White eventually settled in Los Angeles, California. After a long period of obscurity, in the mid 1990s he was involved in a reunion of the Handy Quintet, and recorded an album as co-leader with Bill Frisell, Motion Pictures (1997). In 2006 White released the album Voices. He died on December 06, 2016.
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As leader
As sideman
With John Handy
With The Fourth Way
With Sonny Simmons
With The Dead Science
With Pharoah Sanders
With Alice Coltrane
With Joe Henderson