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Concert Review: Turtle Island Quartet Takes Crossover Jazz to New Level

March 5, 2010

Jazz performed by a string quartet? At first glance the two would seem mutually exclusive -- until Turtle Island Quartet showed the world how it could be done. Turtle Island Quartet, which played at BYU Thursday, has taken the concept of crossover to a new level -- infusing jazz playing with classical parameters and classical idioms ...

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News: Music Industry

Turtle Island Quartet Has Blended Jazz and Strings for Nearly Quarter of a Century

January 7, 2009

David Balakrishnan took a leap. Some might call it brave, others dumb luck. Either way, now he looks brilliant. For nearly a quarter century, Balakrishnan has taken two beloved forms of music — string quartets and jazz— and mashed them into something that is both reverential and ground breaking. Since founding the Turtle Island Quartet in ...

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Article: Live Review

Turtle Island String Quartet Performs "A Love Supreme" at Stanford

by Mark Sabbatini
March 1, 2008

Turtle Island String Quartet Stanford Lively Arts Series Stanford University, Palo Alto, California February 16, 2008 One of the drags about string quartets is it's taboo to applaud solos. Not that the urge is common, but imagine a Village Vanguard crowd sitting on their hands most of the evening ...

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A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

By Turtle Island Quartet

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Moment's Notice; La Danse du Bonheur; Model Trane; A Love Supreme: Acknowledgment; Resolution, Pursuance, Psalm; 'Round Midnight; Countdown; My Favorite Things; Naima; Song To John; So What (Bonus Track).

Article: Album Review

Turtle Island Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

Read "A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2007

Un lungo filo unisce la produzione discografica del Turtle Island Quartet, attivo sulla scena musicale dal 1985: è il continuo rimando all’estetica del jazz, non sporadicamente riletta con gustosi omaggi. Davis, Ellington, Monk e Coltrane sono alcuni degli autori di volta in volta riproposti con piglio originale, dall’alto di una pratica non convenzionale. Interamente dedicato a ...

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Article: Album Review

Turtle Island Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

Read "A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 7, 2007

The Turtle Island Quartet honors saxophone titan John Coltrane with A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane, putting its distinct signature on tunes written by, inspired by, or associated with Trane in ways that are faithful to the original concepts while giving them new dimensions and depth. Jimmy Garrison's signature four-note bass ...

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Article: Album Review

Turtle Island String Quartet: A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

Read "A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 7, 2007

John Coltrane has been the inspiration for a number of musical considerations. Karrin Allyson's Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane (Concord, 2001) was a brilliantly well-conceived thematic recording. The Marsalis brothers each released Coltrane-related thoughts in Wynton's Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra A Love Supreme (Palmetto, 2005) and Branford's Branford Marsalis Quartet Performs Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live in ...