This would probably have been the first jazz recording.

Much of his studio work from the 1940s on was uncredited, and he never led his own jazz recording session.

It was a rough style of production, an antistyle, a self-reflexive approach which anticipates both free jazz recording conventions and punk production to come.

He also found time to listen to some of his vast collection of jazz recordings.

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