Christian Howes wants you to know that Southern Exposure is not simply another violin and accordion record, some light-hearted evocation of Parisian café music. “It's deeper than that," Howes, the ...

Don’t be surprised to see Christian Howes playing his violin alongside street musicians in the French Quarter or the Marigny this weekend. Howes is that rare bird among classically trained musicians.

Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections ...

WAVERLY - "The incredible hulk of the jazz violin." "A force of nature … one of the best young jazz violinists in the world." "The Jimi Hendrix of jazz violin." Christian Howes also has been labeled ...