In-School Performances

TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET

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“A STERLING EXAMPLE OF FIRST-RATE JAZZ MUSIC-MAKING”
Los Angeles Times
“EXCELLENT PRECISION AND MUSICALITY”
Excellent precision and musicality
“THE STRINGS SING, NOT LIKE ANGELS, BUT LIKE THEY'VE BEEN AROUND. THE IMPROVISATIONS HANG TOUGH, SOLIDLY BUILT AND TAKE NO BACK TALK FROM ANYBODY.”
The Seattle Post-Intelligence
News and Events

06.02.10
Hot 8 Brass Band to be featured in new Spike Lee film for HBO
The Hot 8 Brass Band is featured in the upcoming Spike Lee film entitled "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise."

05.24.10
Viver Brasil wins Lester Horton Dance Award
Viver Brasil recently won the Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Dance

Performance Highlights

07.30.10
Christopher O'Riley
Caramoor International Music Festival
Spanish Courtyard- Katonah, NY

08.05.10
ETHEL
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, NY

08.28.10
Turtle Island Quartet
Waterstage - Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA

Listen

from the album- Have You Ever Been...?
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
from the album- A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
La Danse du Bonheur (McLaughlin/Shankar)
Countdown (Coltrane)
So What (Davis)
excerpts from A Solstice Celebration
Jot Se Jot Jagake Chalo (Pyarela)
Winter in Cairo (Vivaldi)
Beautiful Savior (Trad.)
Christmas Day I'Da Mornin'/Apples in Winter (Trad.)

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