The Tokyo Quartet

The Tokyo Quartet: Beethoven: The "Late" Quartets

by AAJ Staff
November 23, 2010

Just as any real and informed music fan is familiar with the Duke Ellington “Blanton Webster Band," Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959), and Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Sevens recordings, so should they also be immersed in Beethoven's famous late string quartets. There are pre-echoes of twentieth century popular music harmony here, but additionally, there is a depth that travels beyond music. These late quartets--said to summarize all Beethoven's musical explorations--have been recorded by the ...

Neil Stalnaker's Tokyo Quartet New Release, ...And Now The "Bad News"

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2006

Neil Stalnaker's Tokyo Quartet New Release" ...And Now The “Bad News"

...And Now The “Bad News" is a project that actually began in 1992. During the past year, many listeners and musicians have asked me why I named the new recording ...And Now The “Bad News".

In August of 1991, I was told that I had throat cancer. At the age of 32, this was quite a shock. The doctor told me he had good news and he had bad ...
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