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Originally Posted by That_Dude
Mahavishnu Orchestra
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That's the great Jerry Goodman in the original (REAL) Mahavishnu Orchestra, replaced by Jean-Luc Ponty in an inferior incarnation. Before Mahavishnu, Jerry Goodman was playing violin (and guitar) in a rock group called The Flock. The Flock replaced him with another violinist when he left. There were a fair number of hard rock groups with violinists in the early seventies: The Jefferson Airplane had Papa John Creach, and It's a Beautiful Day and McKenzie Spring also had violinists. I saw The Animals a few years ago. The (then) current keyboardist was doubling on hard-rock violin. Keyboardist Eddie Jobson of UK and Jethro Tull also doubled on violin.
Regina Carter is a relatively young very adept jazz violinist. I like her much better live (I've seen her twice) than on recordings. Among the jazz old-timers are Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith.
There are zillions of classical violinists, of course. Three of the most famous in the recording era are Fritz Kriesler, Jascha Heifitz, and Isaac Stern. I saw Isaac Stern in concert once (for free), however, and was not especially impressed. He was standing a few feet away from me, and his double stops were not quite in tune.