PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney Last week I stopped frozen in my tracks at the sight of two black violin players on Jack’s Big Music Show. (You gotta roll thru the pics to the right till you see their faces and click on them.) Now -- I love that "Jack’s Big Music Show" is already good at featuring diverse types of music. But something about seeing black men exquisitely playing violins in a hip-hop style (though they don’t like to be labeled hip-hop) was so foreign to me. At first I wondered if it was one man in a split-screen display on the "Jack’s Big Oops!" episode. Turns out they were in fact two men -- Damien and Tourie Escobar – who make up the group known as Nuttin’ But Stringz, or NBS . They were so stunningly good, I became obsessed and vowed to find out more about Nuttin' But Stringz. Here’s what I’ve found: Damien and Tourie Escobar (gotta love that last name, visions of Scarface abound) aren’t twins, but 18- and 20-year-old brothers from Jamai...