Michele Ramo, Bucky Pizzarelli, Al Caiola & Jerry Bruno

bucky's made more great records than 20 jazz guitarists combined, in the 50s & 60s played on most r&r records done in ny, featured on roberta flack's 1st hit, played the white house often, played w/a plethora of music legends, is 83 plays 5-6 gigs a week -al caiola-Bonanza theme.epiphone gtr named for him, had many hits, is a studio legend. swung his ass off here-a guitarist not playing a ton of notes mislabeled as music doesn't as you say make his playing lame-you are lame bobo

gods on stage

Al Caiola, I have had the pleasure to meet him on several occasions with Vinnie Bell. What a beautiful man and wonderful player. Al has always been one of my top picks of great guitar players.

violin has a corny sound in jazz to my ear.....reasonable people can disagree; not trying to put you down; nothing personal

when grapelli plays - it aint corny - it's sublime and, I am glad you don't like it.Wouldn't like to agree with a moron

it's a matter of taste, but you wouldn't realize that; you don't have any.

I believe that it does have the potential to be a great jazz instrument. However, the majority of jazz violinist that I've listened to over the years, seem to get too caught up in these annoying little violin tricks and end up sounding really pathetic like the guy in this video. I think the majority of jazz violinist spend too much of their time working on technical work rather than studying the important stuff like the actual vocabulary of jazz music as well as proper jazz phrasing and timing.

Good one!

I saw Grapelli with Bucky about 10 years ago. They rolled the guy out in a wheelchair and he played his ass off. He produces a very suble timbre and he swings.
While the band took a break he was roled over to the piano and he played 'ragtime' music until the band came back from break. I think he died a few months after that show.
I can'e explain why but his sound was so much better live than on any of his studion albums.
But, as you write, it's a matter of taste. One likes it or not.