White was born in Houston Texas and grew up near Oakland, California. He started playing the violin at nine years of age. White was first known when he performed with the John Handy Quartet at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1965. He also recorded three albums with Handy. White was one of the pioneers in avant-garde music and became a jazz violinist with his band The Fourth Way in the 1960s. Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner and McCoy Tyner were among his many musical collaborators. The Michael White Quintet’s “Mechanical Man”, which was released in early 2007, won the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards, Best Jazz Song. White currently resides in Kobe, Japan. After a long period inobscurity, he participated in a reunion with the Handy Quintet in the mid 1990s and recorded an album, Motion Pictures (1997), as co-leader, with Bill Frisell. White released Voices in 2006 from http://en.wikipedia.org
