Mads Tolling is a two-time Grammy Award-winning violinist, and he is the 2016 winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star Violin Award. Mads is a former longtime member of Stanley Clarke’s Band and the Turtle Island Quartet. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, and he has performed over a thousand concerts worldwide, including the Library of Congress and the Newport Jazz Festival. Mads has appeared with Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, Paquito D’Rivera and Jean-Luc Ponty.
Mads is a current member of Bob Weir & Wolf Bros, and he is featured on three of Weir’s albums recorded live at Red Rocks and Radio City Music Hall.
Mads released his hit recording, “Mads Tolling & The Mads Men - Playing the 60s” in 2017, and he has been touring the show worldwide ever since. The album has been a favorite amongst fans and critics alike and was in the top 30 on US Jazz Radio for two straight months, peaking at #5.
This evening Mads is for the first time collaborating with World-Class Venezuelan jazz pianist Edward Simon. Based in the SF Bay Area, as a member of the All-Star SFJAZZ Collective, Edward has been a Guggenheim Fellow and awarded multiple composition grants as part of Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works initiative. Edward is a Yamaha Artist and has recorded 17 albums as a leader and co-leader.
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