For Gazette music writer Geraldine Freedman’s preview of this show, click here. The Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet stopped by Sunday night at The Egg and proved that even a string quartet ...

"A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane" Telarc IT'S NOT EASY transplanting John Coltrane's music from the usual jazz combo to a classical string quartet, and the Turtle Island Quartet has made ...

KEARNEY — Mark Summers understands what makes the string quartet such an important form of expression for composers. “We’re a string quartet with the same exact instrumentation as Hayden’s quartets,” ...

Watch Carry Me Home, a program from Turtle Island, the hardest working string quartet in jazz, and their latest collaborator, pianist Cyrus Chestnut. Turtle Island Quartet Joins Cyrus Chestnut With ...

When the Turtle Island Quartet plays, all the preconceived notions about string instruments are abolished and listeners are transported to an uncharted dimension. Two years after a jaw-dropping ...

Guitar and controlled feedback master Jimi Hendrix reinterpreted for a string quartet? Hearing is believing. We are in for a real adventure in creativity as classical/jazz fusion trendsetters, the ...

String instruments are usually placed in the classical music category. But by infusing classical music with Latin jazz, pop, R&B and folk styles, the Turtle Island String Quartet produces a sound that ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Classical and jazz innovators, Turtle Island String Quartet, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, ...

Turtle Island String Quartet will perform at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18, at Arts Empowering Life's new Performing Arts Center, according to a community announcement. The center is located at 95 Southern ...