Sara Caswell is an American jazz violinist, known for her work as a solo artist and as a collaborator in 9 Horses and the bands of Esperanza Spalding, and David Krakauer. Born into a musical family in Bloomington, Indiana, Caswell studied classical violin with Josef Gingold, but from an early age was also taken with jazz, and learned from famed pedagogue David Baker, along with violinist John Blake and trumpeter Patrick Harbison. Caswell plays a violin by Stefano Scarampella, and a Hardanger d'amore made for her in 2013 by Salve Håkedal.