Jazz Articles about Joe Haider

Joe Haider Double Quartet: Mysterious

by Nic Jones
March 27, 2006

Insofar as there has been any debate at all over the whole jazz 'n' strings thing, it was probably kicked off by Charlie Parker's work in that setting. There, of course, the strings served largely as a context for Parker's still extraordinary flights, and the issue of integration between strings and the standard small jazz group instrumentation was more or less irrelevant.

Here, however, the integration issue is essential to the success of the music, and despite the fact that ...