It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...