Artist:Mads Tolling Quartet
Song:Beatrice
Album:Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty: Live at Yoshi's
Mads Tolling is a Danish jazz violinist in the tradition of Stephane Grappelli but especially Jean-Luc Ponty. This 2011 album is a live tribute to Ponty. Tolling was a member of the Grammy award winning group Turtle Island Quartet. He was born July 5, 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He started playing violin at age six. Tolling and his sister busked on Copenhagen streets. While in high school, Tolling earned a scholarship to attend Berklee School of Music in Boston. His teachers at Berklee were jazz musicians Joanne Brackeen, Hal Crook and Joe Lovano. And that's also where he met French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. And Ponty recommended Tolling to join bassist Stanley Clarke's band which he did after graduating from Berklee in 2003. Tolling recorded and toured with Clarke until 2010. He was also a member of Turtle Island Quartet until 2012. They were very successful and won two Grammys in the Classical Crossover category. Meanwhile, Tolling started recording and touring with his own band in 2008. He usually records for his own label. Beatrice is from the album Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty. As it says in the title, it was recorded live at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA. May 30, 2011. Tolling currently lives in San Francisco. The album is made up of songs popularized by Ponty including the Sam Rivers song Beatrice. The musicians were Tolling's touring band at the time of Mike Abraham on guitar, George Ban-Weiss on bass and Eric Garland on drums. This album is available as a budget CD. Tolling's latest album Masters of Jazz Violin with Jacob Fischer on guitar and Matthias Petri on bass was released last year. He is currently playing shows in California. He also teaches violin online if you are interested. Here's the video for Beatrice by Mads Tolling.
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