Christian Howes专辑介绍：by Scott YanowA promising classical violinist, Christian Howes was sentenced to jail when he was 19 on a drug charge and spent four years behind bars. During this disturbing period, he learned a great deal about life and surprisingly about music, switching mostly to jazz and improvised music. This set, his debut recording, was partly cut a year after his release but it also has four excerpts of his playing with fellow inmates while still in jail; that group was known as the London Ohio Correctional Institution Studio 3 Band. The set is a bit of a sampler, for Howes is heard playing jazz standards, originals, some classical music, and even folk and pop. His sound has the passion of a Stuff Smith, although his style even at this early point was fairly original. The program does jump around a bit (one wishes that the excerpts were longer), but contains some fine violin playing by the promising Christian Howes.