What do you like most? Jazz or Classic?

Agree with Spencer’s perspective. Instruments with far more overlap between Jazz and Classical music are piano, guitar, trumpet and double bass for example. More of a fair/relevant comparison of two great music genres and their respectively superb musicians .I have immense admiration and appreciation for both genres but I listen to jazz more often.
Charles

Out of all the jazz violinists "Ray Nance" is my favorite; unfortunately, his best is not on "youtube".


              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr1hFdvh1lk


The most individualistic is "Billy Bangs"; he was a tunnel rat in "Nam".


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jke3UaOP8Rw


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVJMOpIHBgc


Jean Luc Ponty is best known for his fusion, which is fantastic;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTC-OjgwLxg


Regina Carter is another jazz violinist I enjoy a lot;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nXruQXWx50&list=PLGeaJNBad89fXfRzGi4L3VQLzoaz5dV3A





             

Jazz. I love Trios, Quartets, Quintets, Sextets, and Big Bands. I prefer Swing, Bebop, Hard Bop, and West Coast styles. Not a fan of Free Form or Avant Garde - I need to be able to tap my foot to the rhythm. I can listen for hours to a piano, drums, and bass trio.

Not one of the choices, but good fiddle, think Vassar Clements, does it for me.

I really don’t like the way violin lends itself to the type of jazz I enjoy the most, which is swing, bop, hard bop, soul jazz, and free jazz. None of the classic jazz ensembles of the 50s and 60s every really incorporated violin into their sessions to any large degree. I’m not even sure there is a BlueNote album prominently featuring a violin but I could be wrong. Maybe Nigel Kennedy tried this? Even an album like Mingus’ ambitious orchestration "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" didn’t feature a violin to my knowledge. I just don’t think of jazz and violin unless it’s the early stuff like Grapelli with Django or more fusion stuff like Ponty. Nothing falls into the sub-genres of jazz genre I like but that’s just me.