Michael White has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 104 episodes and was first played on 3 August 2013.

Michael Walter White (24 May 1930 - 6 December 2016) was an American jazz violinist. White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. He first became known in 1965 when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first…