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Whirled Chamber Music by Quartet San Francisco
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fave it Chamber Music | String Quartet
18 tracks | 67 minutes
Released Aug 2007
on Violinjazz Recordings
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:06 Powerhouse BUY MP3 03:06 Powerhouse "GIFT MP3" 03:06 Powerhouse
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:38 Spain BUY MP3 04:38 Spain "GIFT MP3" 04:38 Spain
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:02 The Mooche BUY MP3 06:02 The Mooche "GIFT MP3" 06:02 The Mooche
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 Pick Up the Pieces BUY MP3 03:44 Pick Up the Pieces "GIFT MP3" 03:44 Pick Up the Pieces
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:34 Tanguori BUY MP3 04:34 Tanguori "GIFT MP3" 04:34 Tanguori
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:01 Boy Scout in Switzerland BUY MP3 04:01 Boy Scout in Switzerland "GIFT MP3" 04:01 Boy Scout in Switzerland
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 Peter Tambourine BUY MP3 03:02 Peter Tambourine "GIFT MP3" 03:02 Peter Tambourine
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:21 I Hear Music BUY MP3 05:21 I Hear Music "GIFT MP3" 05:21 I Hear Music
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Harlem Nocturne BUY MP3 04:19 Harlem Nocturne "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Harlem Nocturne
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:43 The Penguin BUY MP3 02:43 The Penguin "GIFT MP3" 02:43 The Penguin
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:56 The Toy Trumpet BUY MP3 02:56 The Toy Trumpet "GIFT MP3" 02:56 The Toy Trumpet
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:16 Under the Sea BUY MP3 02:16 Under the Sea "GIFT MP3" 02:16 Under the Sea
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 Siberian Sleighride BUY MP3 03:02 Siberian Sleighride "GIFT MP3" 03:02 Siberian Sleighride
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GRAMMY®-nominated Quartet San Francisco defines crossover music with these audacious blues, funk, jazz, tango, and swingin' tracks, all delivered with authentic style by four "whirled-class" string players.
Editorial review
String quartets playing anything but classical music, while not commonplace, are also not unique -- see Kronos, Turtle Island, Max Roach's Double Quartet, Quartette Indigo, etc. In the case of Quartet San Francisco, their repertoire is all over the map, from cartoon jazz to standards, American Popular Songs, tango and disco, the latter being throwaways. This group led by Jeremy and Joel Cohen (violin and cello respectively) let musical styles fly by, pluck one, play it, and move on to another. Their penchant for the music of Raymond Scott is most evident, as seven of these selections are his. Of the more challenging picks, "Peter Tambourine" swings hard and sways, "Siberian Sleighride" evokes a definite wintry motif, and "The Penguin" is a layered, sophisticated, daring interpretation that yields great listening throughout. Several other Scott covers have a distinct country flavor. A twangy, skittering, fiddled, chicken fried feeling is stapled into "Powerhouse," "Boy Scout In Switzerland," and "Toy Trumpet." David Grisman's dawgrass concept is modified in a Philip Glass minimalist level for Grisman's "Dawg's Bull." For the jazz oriented portion of the program, you hear the yearning strings sighing during Duke Ellington's "The Mooche," holding a compact, precise, sweet line on Chick Corea's "Spain," and stalking slinky and stealth for "Harlem Nocturne." The lone original "Tanguori" is the tango flavored Astor Piazzolla influenced singleton. QSF can be polite, poetic, stoic or even a bit wild, while staying within the framework of the original works, emphasizing stylistic elements rather than stretched jamming or pure improvisation. Clearly this group is capable of much more exploration and hopefully innovation, as this recording hints and winks at. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Quartet San Francisco’s 2006 release Látigo, which gave passionate expression to the group’s devotion to tango, was honored last December with two Grammy nominations in the Classical Crossover field, including “Best Album.”
This audacious new ViolinJazz Recordings, CD Whirled Chamber Music, ups the ante, presenting what violinist Jeremy Cohen calls “crossover music in its purest form.” The new disc draws from a wide variety of indigenous American forms – jazz, funk, rock, tango – that are imaginatively crafted by Cohen for string quartet. The CD’s title refers to the walls between genres coming down, with the Quartet offering, you might say, “a new whirled order.”
Quartet San Francisco, established in 2001, consists of Cohen and Kayo Miki on violins, Emily Onderdonk (viola), and Joel Cohen (cello).
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String Quartet purrs like a well-oiled, seasoned Jazz machinemikiej wrote on April 23, 2008
This delightful eclectic collection displays a variety of styles that is unique to the musicians featured on the album. The arrangements are superbly well-balanced, so much that at times it is difficult to tell who is playing which parts; these people can play together as one. Each musician could (and does) step in and take right up where the other left off during an "imrovisational" moment, virtually mid-sentence. The contrasts are well-programmed in the order they are presented, and on the first listening it is immediately evident that these people are really having a great time working together. I highly recommend this to frumpy classicists and wild-eyed jazzers alike, as the varied contents are sure to please almost any musical taste.
Great String Quartet!anramo wrote on August 28, 2008
I actually bought this album because I liked a few songs, but ended loving all of them!