craft and inspired others with their talent. they all have roots here in new york and they are considered masters at what they do. we are here in lincoln center were the top musicians of the world perform their craft and people like this violin maker where route to introduce you to make it all possible. >> i'm a violin maker. i was doing sculpture and artwork are as long as i can remember. i thought i wanted to be -- i read a book about a violin maker when i was 13 and a cop my imagination. i've been pretty much obsessed with it from that point. the violin is giving me a lifetime challenge to try to better what i do. you can see the motion. twisting turning fluctuating. not saying that this is actually alive but it's like it's alive. i have made instruments for isaac stern joshua bell yo-yo ma chilling when the string quartet. professional violinist are probably the most highly trained individuals in our society right up there with athletes. they can hear amazingly small stations that i had an experience once. a client of mine was trying a number of islands and the got into carnegie hall and i was sitting in the back of the hall. on stage there was a musician and there were -- and my violin. i was there with a violin dealer and a couple of experienced listeners and none of us knew which was which. the violin dealers say congratulations. i don't know which is yours. this is a violin that i made for isaac stern is passed on since then. i'm still taking care of his fiddle. big part of what i do is adjust instruments for the people that have them from me and that relationship is something i enjoy. it's a great feeling to go to a concert hall and hear someone play my violin part on one hand it's just fun and on the other hand i'm listening like isn't loud enough? is the basil and projecting so i'm listening with half an ear. everyday when i i come in here and look at this woodpile i wonder who's going first, it are made. this is basically for me more than a lifetime's worth of wit. you feel it when you hold in your hand. how likely it is and that's just waiting to go. it still needs a few more years i feel like i've got different people. there is the artist who shapes and carves and there's the engineer who thinks about the structure and there is the sound technician who is doing adjustments. it's almost like i feel like parts of me take turns. they don't exist. they sort of exist but they come out to the surface at different points. at this stage i'm trying to imagine how this is going to vibrate when it's altogether. i feel by the numbers and by sound. you can plan as much as you want but you don't don't know until a musician puts the boat down on the string. becoming a great violin maker you could say it's very simple. violin and then you make the next one of little better and to make the next one a little better. if you have enough time in your life eventually you will be making a great violin. >> coming up. >> i'm the happiest when i'm in a factory downstairs. >> the iconic tailor his clients include the who's who of steve: where are hamper clan talking to the best dealers in the world. marty greenfield's work has caught the attention of president and designers like. greenville walks us through his legendary career in his own words. >> i am a maker of the best clothing in the world. my name is martin greenfield. they call me a tailor but you have to be a tailor before you come a maker. it's a very difficult job and there are too many people left like me. i was 15 and a half when they took me to the concentration camp. my father sat down with me and he told me that if i don't survive i don't want you to honor us by crying. honor us by living for the eventually i came to america. everything that i know was taught to me in this factory. ask me where i am the happiest, other people will tell you other things but i will tell you i'm the happiest when i'm in the factory downstairs watching the work. not one tailor makes the whole suit. it takes about 100 operations on a jacket. each person has to do a different item perfectly. everything is matched up. every stripe, every place. >> when a person comes to buy their first suit from me he picks the color and i picked the fabric. why? by the first suit, what i see in our customers when they try on the first suit. whoever comes with them and looks at them and they are shocked to see how beautiful the person looks. because it makes a difference when you put on something right. there are no two people alike. one is right-handed, one is left-handed, it is slim one, a short one, a tall one, extra long. patrick ewing comes in at 7 feet one inch. i teach people to make sure whatever we do here has got to be the best in the world because we make everything by hand and i don't think there's anyplace in the world that could match us. people, then you would have to do a long show. president clinton and that was the first time in the white house. i found this closet. i said this leather jacket, this red stuff doesn't work here in washington. you have got to look like the talking heads because the minute you walk out the door you were on television and if you get just in the morning and you don't follow my advice mr. president can i tell you, you could read my reputation. paul newman is my favorite. my wife complained one time because he used to come over and kiss me and shake her hand. jimmy fallon. he gets on his knees in d.c. this ring, he kisses the ring. i said i'm not the pope. he is a funny guy. we trust him one and 30 actors. every person who watched the show, they talked mostly about clothing. if he is around 20 years later the jacket is still going to be good. this is what i accomplished, quality but almost never goes out of style. >> coming up, the award-winning jazz bassist is talent and creativity has inspired it's the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. so hurry and get only fios has the fastest internet and wi-fi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. and right now, for only internet, tv and phone for your first year. plus, with a 2-year agreement, fios gives you $400 back, and all the premium movie channels for a year. so go online or call now you can often find aces christie met ride at this jester. his career has taken him around the world. as you're about to see he is noted as much for his musical talent as his big heart. >> my name is christian mcbride. i may bassist. it's about letting the energy and the spirit flow. when i was eight years old i saw my father play. for some particular reason this and i turned to my mother and i said can i have a base for christmas, a bass guitar? my first electric bass was built in philly. i never brought it to new york with me. the minute i touched the instrument i knew that's what i wanted to do. it's actually one of the pieces i used to get in the -- in two juliet. the base jury was sitting and watching me like this, just deadpan, didn't know if i was doing good or bad. bobby watson maybe two weeks into the school year he found his way into school and the said hey what are you doing this weekend? why? i have the gate for you this what? i decided to leave junior did after one year. over to regret it because i had a chance to play with legends who are no longer with us. betty carter, ray brown filleted great george duke who was a giant influence on me not just as a musician but as a person as well. as a young jazz musician you are expected to tell a number of songs on the great american songbook. so i've been in freddie hubbard's band for a year and a half in friday says we are going to make a live album. i am like yes i will be dotted with freddie hubbard so we are recording in the tapes are rolling in and the crowd is packed. freddie starts playing this trumpet intro. i don't recognize what he's playing and right away i think i turned white. freddie's back was to me. i took the microphone in front of the base and i made it drop record. at the end of the night the sister and generic am standing he says you know what we have a shadow mike on the peso we were were able to salvage the track. [laughter] i'm going now. freddie hubbard's life at tuesday's is a rendition of but dutiful with me playing all the wrong notes to be documented forever. [laughter] everything you learn as a trained musician you have to call all of those skills to be a jazz musician and you have to make it all sound simple. so then trained ear can understand it. as a bass player, you are supposed to come up with every single court he could be like this. or i could start it off like this. or i could start it off like this. now when you switch it to the pop side, the discipline is almost the exact opposite. if i may reference my dear friends, we play every breath you take. this is the baseline. i have to play that exactly like that. none of this you know -- i could play that but it would really break up the flow of how that song is supposed to feel. james brown has always been my biggest musical influence. i produce what turned out to be his final show at the hollywood old. he said son i'm proud of you. thank you mr. brown. he said no, now you've really done some good things. i've been following your career. you are upholding the standard. i was like whoa. it's sort of a natural inclination to want to nurture these young musicians and helped them the same way the older guys helped us. so it's all full circle. >> coming up. >> the dance takes you into where you are supposed to be. the driving force behind one of the most successful dance were lank catapulting this facility and two are the preeminent dance companies of our time as we are about to show you jamison has been at trailblazer and dance for decades. >> the dancer is music. where the notes come to life. my name is judith jamison. i'm the former artistic director of the american bandstand her. the dancers work their way through. you will see them in motion, life motion and your breath will be taken away. i was born in 1943. it was a very intense time in philadelphia. our artistically, spiritually, emotionally, racially. i was growing up with parades on new year's eve with people in black face. that i'm glad i grew up with. all those things my career. people ask me sometimes, did you know you wanted to be a dancer? it wasn't wanting to be a dancer but sometimes she needed to to be a dancer. i didn't know that but it came to me. there are always people before you that inch the door open a little bit more city to get a foot in. alvin a-list gave that to everybody because we are living on his after burn. all the good things he did for us so we could exist now and he continues. [applause] >> we met in 1965. he was there at this addition and i feel that audition because i was really bad. i had an band's for because i was working at the world's fair pushing buttons. don't ask. so what's i was leaving the building there was a man sitting on the steps. i was so upset i walked past him and three days later that man that i passed on the steps called me and said would you like to be a member? you know you are guided pages that you are guided. there's a history there is quite wonderful in some of the ballets are still being done. 15, 16 minutes. it's very difficult to do. was thunderous applause and people kept applauding and kept applauding. that opened all kinds of doors. i'm so proud of not just this generation but the generation before them and the generation before them that i was responsible for and making them with themselves even higher than they thought they could. the point is to have a connection with your soul and hopefully connect with someone else. will they remember you for how high your leg went or how many heroines you did or world they be touched in the innermost part of their soul? that is what dance is supposed to do and that is what the artist is supposed to do for you. >> thanks for journeys for fox 5 special on modern masters.