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Artist
Michael White
12+ albums
jazzexperimentalFusionviolinJuma
about
Various artists with the name: 1) Michael White (violinist) (1933–2016), jazz musician 2) Michael White (US singer) of The White, an American hard rock combo and occasional Led Zeppelin tribute band 3) Michael 'Mick' White (born 1967), English hard rock singer for Samson 4) Michael White (clarinetist) (born 1954), New Orleans jazz musician 5) Michael White (singer), country music artist 6) Trippie Redd (Michael White IV, born 1999), rap artist from Canton, Ohio --==-- 1) Michael Walter White (24 May 1930 - 6 December 2016) was an American jazz violinist. White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. He first became known in 1965 when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and 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 lived 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
