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Dorothy Lawson: ETHEL's String Theory For Quartets
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On legendary cellist Dorothy Lawson.Dorothy and the group ETHEL have spent years breaking down walls between classical, jazz, rock and world music.On March 13, 2025, at New York City's Carnegie Hall, Dorothy teams up with bass legend Ron Carter to reimagine his landmark Kronos Quartet recording from 40 years ago, featuring arrangements of music by Thelonious Monk.Dorothy shares how ETHEL has evolved through four generations of musicians, their unique residency ...
Continue ReadingJohn King: Allsteel
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo disco, pubblicato dall'etichetta di John Zorn, suggella l'incontro dell'estroso compositore e improvvisatore chitarrista John King con il quartetto d'archi Ethel. Entrambi amano un linguaggio avant, trasversale ai generi comunemente etichettati: blues, jazz, funk, rock, classica, colta e via dicendo. Il chitarrista King suona in diversi gruppi e collabora con molti musicisti jazz, nonché compone musica per danza. Da lui ci si può aspettare di tutto, anche un'orchestra di chitarre elettriche o una partecipazione a una Conduction di Butch Morris. ...
Continue ReadingETHEL: Light
by John Kelman
These days musicians raised in compartmentalized traditions can find themselves challenged by the homogeneous blending of diverse musical interests. Not so with Ethel, a young string quartet that may be traditional in configuration, but brings together a wealth of influences--not because it's fashionable, but because it's the only thing that makes sense. Light, the followup to Ethel's remarkable 2003 eponymous debut, continues to explore the nexus of composed music and improvisation with a rawness not normally found in contemporary classical ...
Continue ReadingETHEL: Ethel
by John Kelman
While it is an unavoidable fact that the Kronos Quartet has set the standard for contemporary string quartets interpreting an almost exclusively contemporary repertoire, the fact of the matter is that they come from a classical background, and no matter how far they attempt to stray from it, they can't escape it. Their attempts to interpret the music of Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans, for example, did nothing more than highlight their more literal interpretations. Not so with Ethel, whose ...
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