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ETHEL

Established in New York City in 1998, the string quartet ETHEL sets the contemporary concert standard:  “indefatigable and eclectic” (The New York Times), “vital and brilliant” (The New Yorker). Composer performers—Ralph Farris (viola), Kip Jones (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Corin Lee (violin)—fuse  uptown panache with downtown genre mashup. ETHEL has performed across the United States and  worldwide; released 9 feature albums; guested on 40+ recordings; won a GRAMMY® with jazz legend Kurt  Elling; and toured with Todd Rundgren & Joe Jackson. ETHEL champions the art and music of today,  forging human connections across sound and style. 

Laurence Hobgood: Tesseterra

by Roger Farbey
April 12, 2019

"Jazz with strings" is a phrase that sometimes invokes a heart-sink feeling amongst reviewers. Happily this is not one of those occasions. Laurence Hobgood has released a half dozen records under his own name but many more for vocalist Kurt Elling with whom he's been musical director, co-producer and accompanist for over twenty years. During that ...

Don Byron / Aruán Ortiz: Random Dances And (A)Tonalities

by Karl Ackermann
October 27, 2018

Two highly accomplished artists--one long-established, the other solidifying his legacy--are brought together on Random Dances And (A)Tonalities. This duo outing features clarinetist and saxophonist Don Byron and pianist Aruán Ortiz. The two gifted composers have been playing together, at Ortiz's initial request, since 2014 but in larger ensembles. In late 2017 Byron and Ortiz met in ...

Hafez Modirzadeh: In Convergence Liberation

by Karl Ackermann
August 22, 2014

Multi-reed player and composer Hafez Modirzadeh has created a sweeping global experience with In Convergence Liberation; a further examination of the cross-cultural influences explored on Post-Chromodal Out (PI Recordings, 2012). The earlier recording incorporated elements of multi-regional modalism and chromatics, and these compositional techniques are made even more textural with a significantly deeper line up of ...

Hafez Modirzadeh: In Convergence Liberation

by Hrayr Attarian
August 19, 2014

Multi-instrumentalist, composer and ethnomusicologist Hafez Modirzadeh's In Convergence Liberation on the intrepid Pi Recordings label is an ambitious work, and one at which he admirably succeeds. The album is a single, unified entity made up of five distinct but interlaced suites that explore a primal spirituality and express it in timeless poetry. Deftly merging ...

Heavy

By ETHEL

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2012

Kurt Elling: Dedicated To You

by A. Lienhard
June 20, 2009

Dedicated To You is a tribute to one of the most beloved and beautiful recordings in jazz, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. On that six song album, John Coltrane introduces a relatively unknown singer named Johnny Hartman. The two musicians had only just met one another, however in a mere three hours, they produce a classic. ...

Allsteel

By ETHEL

Label:
Released: 2007
Track listing: AllSteel - 26:55: 01. Harddrive; 02. Peace; 03. Funkslidedown; 04. Peaceagain; 05. Meditationtears; 06. Peacesleeps; 07. Ecstaticcry; 08. Peacerises. 'Round Sunrise - 12:17: 09. Slow and Down; 10. Up and Gone. Lightning Slide - 14:08: 11. Swing; 12. Sweet; 13. Sweat. Tutti i brani sono di John King

Ethel's 2nd Annual Winter Solstice Concert

November 27, 2007

WHAT: 2ND Annual IN THE HOUSE OF ETHEL: SOLSTICE WHEN: Friday, December 21st @ 12:30pm & 7:00pm WHERE: World Financial Center Winter Garden 220 Vesey Street. Train E to World Trade Center HOW: FREE. For more info, contact 212.945.0505 AMERICA'S FAVORITE STRING BAND, ETHEL, RETURNS TO THE WORLD ...

John King: Allsteel

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2007

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 ...