List of jazz violinists

The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument was during the first decades of the 20th century.

Early jazz violinists included Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; Claude "Fiddler" Williams, who played with Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy.

Georgie Stoll was a jazz violinist who became an orchestra leader and film music director.

Since that time there have been many superb improvising violinists including Noel Pointer, Stéphane Grappelli, and Jean-Luc Ponty.

Violins also appear in string ensembles or big bands supplying orchestral backgrounds to many jazz recordings.