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Coltrane’s classic quartet recorded 11 albums for Impulse!: Ballads (1962) Coltrane (1962) Live at Birdland (1963) Crescent (1964) A Love Supreme (1964) The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965) Living Space (1965) Transition (1965) Sun Ship (1965) First Meditations (1965) Kulu Sé Mama (1965) (Side 2 is by the Quartet; side 1 by a larger group)
All compositions are by Corea who wanted to create an album of quartets like the many string quartets of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Impressionist periods, but with jazz instrumentation. "Quartet No. 1" uses a 1-chord (G altered) solo vamp over a rock beat in 3/4, and a repeated theme
The discography of the Kronos Quartet includes 43 studio albums, 2 compilations, 5 soundtracks, and 29 contributions to other artists' records. The Kronos Quartet plays classical, pop, rock, jazz, folk, world and contemporary classical music (often written especially for them by for instance Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Alexandra Vrebalov) and was founded in 1973 by violinist David Harrington.
The Dixie Hummingbirds publicity photo. The Dixie Hummingbirds (formerly known as The Sterling High School Quartet) are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today.
The album is the first all-Brubeck string quartet recording. [3] The group released Whirled Chamber Music as a "mixture of American genres – blues, funk, jazz, tango, and rock." [21] Among the 18 tunes are 7 composed by Raymond Scott. The album was recorded June 12–15, 2007 at Skywalker Sound with veteran audio engineer Leslie Ann Jones. [22]
Recordings were an important part of the work of the Alban Berg Quartet. Among the most famous recordings projects are the complete string quartets by Beethoven (EMI, which has sold more than a million copies), Brahms (Teldec and EMI), the late Haydn (EMI), the late Mozart (Teldec and EMI) and the late Schubert (EMI), but their repertoire on disc stretched further to Mendelssohn, Schumann ...
The Dover Quartet has released three albums on Cedille Records: Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart, Voices of Defiance, and Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 1 – The Opus 18 Quartets. Their fourth album Encores was released in 2021 in collaboration with Brooklyn Classical (also known as the popular piano and cello group Brooklyn Duo ...
Black Angels is a 1990 album by the string quartet Kronos Quartet. [2] It includes, [ 3 ] and was named after, George Crumb 's 1970 composition Black Angels , the composition which had inspired David Harrington to found the Kronos Quartet in 1973.