Jazz Articles about The C.T. String Quartet

The C.T. String Quartet: Reqiphoenix Nexus

by Lyn Horton
January 23, 2007

The key difference between the resonance of stringed instruments and the saxophone, to pick one example, is due to the material of the respective instruments. Wood boxes vibrate as a result of the strings being attacked and muted; metal vibrates as a result of embouchure, breath and the opening and shutting of valves. That difference illuminates much of this recording. The continuously bowed strokes of the first part of Reqiphoenix Nexus immediately wrap you into a powerful resonance radiating from ...