Inspiration from Noel Pointer - Jazz violinst and social justice activist.

Noel Pointer died in 1994 just a week before his 40th birthday. He studied classical violin and made his first solo appearance aged 11 when he played with Symphony of the New World Orchestra. He continued playing classical violin through to his early 20s when he turned his classical violin into an instrument for jazz. Pointer was also an activist and worked with children and young people promoting literacy and education in general.

I have two of his albums on vinyl - Hold On and All My Reasons. I havent yet got round to transferring them to CD so I have no samples. I remember some years back when I was trying to replace vinyls with CDs looking for these two albums or anything by Pointer but could find nothing. Now his music is out on CD - I found this slide video on YouTube with Pointer playing Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City”.

I checked out the lyrics of “Living for the City” and reading them I note not much has changed over the past 35 years!

Noel Pointer
Jazz Violin