Greatest String/Wind Players

From left to right: John Cale, Jonathan Segel, Ralph Carney, Andy Mackay

Style > Technicality

The Gods

John Coltrane (sax)
Miles Davis (trumpet)
Albert Ayler (sax)
Ornette Coleman (sax)
Pharaoh Sanders (sax)
Don Cherry (trumpet)
Eric Dolphy (clarinet, flute)
John Cale (viola) [Velvet Underground]
Jonathan Segel (violin) [Camper Van Beethoven]
C Spencer Yeh (violin) [Burning Star Core]
Lindsay Cooper (various) [Art Bears, Henry Cow]
John Lurie (sax) [Lounge Lizards]
Christopher Tunney (sax, clarinet) [Dogbowl]
Andy Mackay (sax, oboe) [Roxy Music]
Simon Jeffes (various) [Penguin Café Orchestra]
Dana Colley (sax) [Morphine]

Other Favorites

- - Alice Coltrane (harp)
  - Andrew Bird (violin)
  - Billy Currie (violin) [Ultravox]
  - Bryce Cloghesy (sax) [Military Genius]
  - Chuck Rio (sax) [Champs]
  - Clarence Clemons (sax) [Bruce Springsteen]
  - Colin Stetson (sax)
  - Dave Swarbick (fiddle, viola) [Fairport Convention]
  - Daved Hild (accordion)
  - David LaFlamme (violin) [It's a Beautiful Day]
  - Dick Heckstall-Smith (sax) [Colosseum]
  - Dickon Hinchliffe (violin) [Tindersticks]
  - Didier Malherbe (sax, flute) [Gong]
  - Don "Sugarcane" Harris (violin) [Frank Zappa]
  - Eric Ungar (sax, flute) [Alter Natives]
  - Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello) [Terminal 4, Boxhead Ensemble]
  - Gareth Sager (sax) [Pop Group, Rip Rig & Panic]
  - Garo Yellin (cello) [Ordinaries]
  - Gretta Cohn (cello) [Cursive]
  - Ian Anderson (flute) [Jethro Tull]
  - James Chance/White (sax)
  - Jean-Luc Ponty (violin)
  - Jessy Greene (violin, viola) [Geraldine Fibbers]
  - Jude Abbott (trumpet) [Chumbawamba]
  - Ken Field (sax) [Birdsongs of the Mesozoic]
  - Ken Vandermark (sax, clarinet)
  - King Curtis (sax)
  - Lisa Germano (violin) [Lisa Germano]
  - Lol Coxhill (sax)
  - Mel Collins (sax, flute) [King Crimson]
  - Pete Stampfel (fiddle) [Holy Modal Rounders]
  - Peter Gordon (sax) [Love of Life Orchestra]
  - Ralph Carney (sax, clarinet)
  - Rob Lind (sax) [Sonics]
  - Shannon Selberg (trumpet, bugle) [Cows]
  - Sonny Rollins (sax)
  - Stephen Kent (didgeridoo) [Trance Mission]
  - Tjay Cantrelli (sax, flute) [Love]
  - Vicky Aspinall (violin) [Raincoats]
  - Warren Ellis (viola) [Dirty Three, Nick Cave]
  - Yusef Lateef (flute)

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