Jazz Violin - Digital (2005)

One of Jeremy’s early albums, a modern jazz record of mostly original tunes Winner of the 2006 Detroit Music Award for Outstanding Jazz Recording The Musicians Jeremy Kittel, violin Dann Friedman, tenor saxophone John Nam, piano Andrew Kratzat, bass Chad Hochberg, drums Praise for Jazz Violin Jazz Violin goes from swinging to sentimental, all of it orchestrated expertly by a young man who’s clearly double trouble in the violin world. - Roger LeLievre, The Ann Arbor News   Kittel seems destined to be a world-class talent, and Jazz Violin is the ear-catching debut of a formidable jazzer. Unlike the shiny, violinistic Euro- sound of Stephane Grappelly or Mark O'Connor, and equally unlike the rough-at-the-edges stridency of Stuff Smith or Regina Carter, Kittel has almost miraculously found an original, signature sound: dark, preternaturally lean and hornlike, a perfect instrumental voice for jazz and not really like anyone else's. - Chris Rietz, Lansing State Journal