Results for "Turtle Island String Quartet"

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

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 ...

Turtle Island String Quartet with the Ying Quartet: 4 + Four

by C. Michael Bailey
February 15, 2005

The classical string quartet is considered the invention of classical composer Franz Josef Haydn. The Turtle Island String Quartet has a reputation of pursuing not so obvious applications of the classical string quartet format. This is quite apparent on their debut Telarc release--is it jazz or classical? The Turtle Island four join forces with the Ying ...

Turtle Island String Quartet

Label: Frémeaux & Associés
Released: 1988