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Zvonimir Tot's Jazz Stringtet: Sarabande Blue

Read "Zvonimir Tot's Jazz Stringtet: Sarabande Blue" reviewed by Howard Mandel


"On this record I'm trying to fuse two things I know something about: classical composition and jazz," says Zvonimir Tot, the Serbian-born, jny: Chicago-based guitarist, composer, arranger, improviser and educator regarding Sarabande Blue, his sixth album as a leader. The debut of Tot's Stringtet, an ensemble several years in development, is a gift from a musical artist who has integrated his experiences and accomplishments in a most gratifying way--providing us passage to the state of mind where genre definitions fade ...

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Zvonimir Tot's Jazz Stringtet: Sarabande Blue

Read "Sarabande Blue" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Guitarist Zvonimir Tot says there are two things he knows something about, classical composition and jazz. He combines those two bodies of knowledge in his presentation of Sarabande Blue. The Serbian-born and now Chicago-based guitarist collaborated with a “string quintet" for the outing, adding the bass of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Robert Kassenger to a string quartet, in addition to his own guitar. Much of the music is through-composed; some is improvised--Tot is a jazz guy. All of ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Sarabande Blue

Groove Art Records
2021

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Groove Me Wah

From: Sarabande Blue
By Rob Kassinger

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