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Dave Soldier: how I completed Stuff Smith’s unfinished violin concerto

2026-07-16T08:50:00Z

When jazz violin pioneer Stuff Smith left behind six minutes of themes for a concerto, composer Dave Soldier set out to complete what he had started. He shares how he transformed the fragment into a full-scale work while grappling with a central question: how do you finish a masterpiece without ...