There are excellent violinists working in various hot bluegrass-jazz contexts: Mark O'Connor, who is now primarily a classical composer-performer but also performs as part of a swing trio, Darol Anger, Stuart Duncan, and Gabe Witcher.
My favorite breakfast is butter fried french toast topped with molasses and red pepper flakes, fresh orange juice, coffee, and lean ham or bacon. This is a finely tuned orchestra of taste.
Second hand.
I have a friend who was a student at Columbia in the 1960s. He is naturally gregarious and often stopped and chatted with Moondog for five or 10 minutes at a time. Moondog called my friend by his first name; my friend called Moondog Mr. Hardin. One time my friend had a Barnard woman with him; he decided to impress her by showing her how chummy he was with one of the premier Manhattan characters. My friend introduced his girlfriend to Moondog, but Moondog did not acknowledge the introduction or even that my friend was speaking to him. He just stared blankly ahead. After a second try with the same response friend slunk away.