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
“IT PLAYS WITH ENERGY AND INVENTIVENESS”
The New York Times
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Listen

excerpts from Poets & Prayers with Tierney Sutton
You've Changed (Carey/Fisher)
Wade in the Water
All I Want
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)
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.)
Chanukkah O Chanukkah

Discography

Have You Ever Been...
Telarc
2010
A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane
Telarc
2007
4 + Four: Turtle Island String Quartet With Ying Quartet
Telarc
2005
Danzón
Koch Int'l Classics
2002
Art of the Groove
Koch Int'l Classics
2000
The Mozart Variations
Windham Hill
2000
Sex and The City, 3rd Season
HBO Comedy Series
2000
The Hamburg Concert
CCn'C
1999
Porta Do Templo
Blue Jackel Ent.
1999
Affliction: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Citadel
1999
Turtle Island String Quartet: A Windham Hill Retrospective
Windham Hill
1997
By the Fireside
Windham Hill
1995
The Romantics
Windham Hill
1995
A Night in Tunisia, A Week in Detroit
Chandos
1994
Who Do We Think We Are?
Windham Hill
1994
Laments & Dances-Music from the folk Traditions
Music Masters Jazz
1994
Homage
GRP Records
1994
A Winter's Solstice IV
Windham Hill
1993
Spider Dreams
Windham Hill
1992
The Impressionists: A Windham Hill Sampler
Windham Hill
1992
On The Town
Windham Hill
1991
Skylife
Windham Hill
1990
Metropolis
Windham Hill
1990
A Winter's Solstice III
Windham Hill
1990
A Shock to the System
Windham Hill
1990
Turtle Island String Quartet
Windham Hill
1988
A Winter's Solstice II
Windham Hill
1986