TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET
TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET
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Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut – Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Turtle Island Quartet – Strings Session
Turtle Island Quartet w/ Cyrus Chestnut – Ruby My Dear
Turtle Island Quartet – Dewey Square
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Turtle Island Quartet
Dewey Square (Parker)
Windspan (Mintzer)
Bouncin’ with Bud (Powell)
Have You Ever Been (Hendrix)
1983…A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Hendrix)
La Danse du Bonheur (McLaughlin/Shankar)
So What (Davis)
Confetti Man (Balakrishnan)
Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut
Jungle Blues (Morton)
Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk)
Turtle Twist (Morton)
WINTER’S EVE
The two-time GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet parlays its own unique brand of jazz chamber brilliance to present a joyous concert of effervescent music making. The repertoire evokes visions of a frosty winter’s eve and year-end celebrations from around the globe. From ancient King Wren songs of the Celtic winter solstice and yuletide reels from Ireland, to tunes of Hannukah, a Hindu spiritual, and a Miles Davis holiday classic, Turtle Island delves into the timeless music that has been an integral part of wintertime festivities for centuries.The program will be announced from the stage and will include selections from the following pieces:
“Christmas Eve” – old Irish reel
Cesta Byla Ušlapaná – 19th century Moravian carol
“Vathapi” – Hindu spiritual (Kirtan)
“Air On A G String/Seven Steps To Heaven” – J.S. Bach/Miles Davis
“Kita Kaira” – Malian peace song
“Ha Nerot Halalu” – traditional Hannukah song
“Thin Ice” – Variations on Vivaldi’s “Winter” Concerto
“King Wren Songs” – ancient Celtic winter solstice tunes
“Atraente” – Brazilian choro festival classic
“Winter In Cairo” – based on the “Arab Dance” movement from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”
“Kommet, Ihr Hirten” – Bohemian folk melody
“This Christmas” – Donny Hathaway
WINTER’S EVE
The two-time GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet parlays its own unique brand of jazz chamber brilliance to present a joyous concert of effervescent music making. The repertoire evokes visions of a frosty winter’s eve and year-end celebrations from around the globe. From ancient King Wren songs of the Celtic winter solstice and yuletide reels from Ireland, to tunes of Hannukah, a Hindu spiritual, and a Miles Davis holiday classic, Turtle Island delves into the timeless music that has been an integral part of wintertime festivities for centuries.The program will be announced from the stage and will include selections from the following pieces:
“Christmas Eve” – old Irish reel
Cesta Byla Ušlapaná – 19th century Moravian carol
“Vathapi” – Hindu spiritual (Kirtan)
“Air On A G String/Seven Steps To Heaven” – J.S. Bach/Miles Davis
“Kita Kaira” – Malian peace song
“Ha Nerot Halalu” – traditional Hannukah song
“Thin Ice” – Variations on Vivaldi’s “Winter” Concerto
“King Wren Songs” – ancient Celtic winter solstice tunes
“Atraente” – Brazilian choro festival classic
“Winter In Cairo” – based on the “Arab Dance” movement from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite”
“Kommet, Ihr Hirten” – Bohemian folk melody
“This Christmas” – Donny Hathaway