David is a violinist and fiddler born and bred in the San Francisco Bay Area who has never been content with just one musical world. Trained at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and San Francisco State University, he plays gypsy jazz with the 29th Street Swingtet, Scandinavian folk with Kaptain Bottletop, and carries instruments most people have never heard of — including a hardanger d’amore, a ten-stringed Norwegian fiddle, and a seven-string electric violin. He came into the Vintage Noise orbit through the famed gypsy jazz guitarist Jimmy Grant, and has been part of the family since 2014.
It turns out a violin belongs in this music. David proved it. Whether trading phrases with Michael on a swing tune or weaving gypsy lines through a bossa nova, something shifts in the room when he plays — and Ed, who notices everything, notices this most of all. He is now based in Germany but returns whenever life allows. The band is never quite the same without him, and everyone will tell you so.