Turtle Island String Quartet

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Crossroads 00:00 Tools
Turning Twice 00:00 Tools
No Mystery 00:00 Tools
Veni Emmanuel 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Stolen Moments 00:00 Tools
The Rain From "The Four Seasons" 00:00 Tools
Julie-O 00:00 Tools
Chorale #220 00:00 Tools
Blue Rondo a la Turk 00:00 Tools
On Green Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Battuto 00:00 Tools
Fruitcake 00:00 Tools
Skylife 00:00 Tools
Naima 00:00 Tools
Steel City Strut 00:00 Tools
Jaco 00:00 Tools
Exsultate Jubilate 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
Cool 00:00 Tools
The Rain From the Four Seasons (Vivaldi) 00:00 Tools
Bowing-Bowing 00:00 Tools
Who Do You Think You Are? 00:00 Tools
Moment's Notice 00:00 Tools
Four On The Floor 00:00 Tools
Model Trane 00:00 Tools
La Danse Du Bonheur 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams 00:00 Tools
Girl From Pathetique 00:00 Tools
Straphangin' 00:00 Tools
Ensenada 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Danzón 00:00 Tools
My Favorite Things 00:00 Tools
Señor Mouse 00:00 Tools
Countdown 00:00 Tools
Wapango 00:00 Tools
Nocturne From String Quartet No. 2 00:00 Tools
Schizo Grosso 00:00 Tools
Sidewinder 00:00 Tools
Grant Wood 00:00 Tools
Song To John 00:00 Tools
Gypsy Eyes 00:00 Tools
Little Mouse Jumps 00:00 Tools
Reverie 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear 00:00 Tools
Hey Joe 00:00 Tools
Milestones 00:00 Tools
Ma Mére Tortue 00:00 Tools
Palhaco 00:00 Tools
All Along The Watchtower 00:00 Tools
Seven Steps to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Jeannine 00:00 Tools
Mr. Bumbles 00:00 Tools
Resolution 00:00 Tools
Psalm 00:00 Tools
Tempus Fugit 00:00 Tools
Pursuance 00:00 Tools
Street Stuff 00:00 Tools
Sunny August Full of Moon 00:00 Tools
Ecaroh 00:00 Tools
Blue In Green-Seven Steps To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Josey 00:00 Tools
So What 00:00 Tools
Blues On The Corner 00:00 Tools
Acknowledgment 00:00 Tools
Waterfall with Blenders 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Oddball 00:00 Tools
Little One Mine 00:00 Tools
Ecotopia 00:00 Tools
Winter In Cairo 00:00 Tools
Gettysburg 00:00 Tools
Moose The Mooche 00:00 Tools
Marwa in the Pines (with you) 00:00 Tools
Dromedary 00:00 Tools
Texas Tarantella 00:00 Tools
Blues for Oaktown 00:00 Tools
Little One Mine - Ghana 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme: Acknowledgment 00:00 Tools
Little Wing 00:00 Tools
To Bop Or Not To Be 00:00 Tools
Odd Ball 00:00 Tools
You Noticed Too 00:00 Tools
Harmonicade 00:00 Tools
Tremors 00:00 Tools
Dexteriors 00:00 Tools
Straphangin 00:00 Tools
Summer: Julie-O 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme: Resolution 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme: Psalm 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme: Pursuance 00:00 Tools
Bach's Lunch 00:00 Tools
The Bovnik 00:00 Tools
Mr. Twitty's Chair 00:00 Tools
Vassar Goes to Harvard 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Near Northern 00:00 Tools
So What [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
The 12th of December 00:00 Tools
The Rain [From Four Seasons] 00:00 Tools
Rachel's Dream 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
In A Sentimental Mood 00:00 Tools
By the Fireside 00:00 Tools
The Rain 00:00 Tools
Row, Brothers, Row 00:00 Tools
A Smooth One 00:00 Tools
Variations on Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
The Iron Fist of Fashion - Movement I 00:00 Tools
Benign 00:00 Tools
Yearnin' 00:00 Tools
Andante 00:00 Tools
Cheek to Cheek 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - Hindu Toes 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Texas Rain 00:00 Tools
The Iron Fist of Fashion - Movement II 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - Eurasian Hoedown 00:00 Tools
Snow What? 00:00 Tools
Little One Mine (Ghana) 00:00 Tools
Tree of Life: Monkey Business 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) 00:00 Tools
Palhaço 00:00 Tools
Decline 00:00 Tools
No Lyin' 00:00 Tools
Geosyncline 00:00 Tools
Recline 00:00 Tools
Bring A Torch... 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 00:00 Tools
Do Something Nice For Your Mother 00:00 Tools
Debussy: Reverie 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: 1983…A Mermen I Should Turn to Be 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: House Burning Down 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - Benign 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem: Eurasian Hoedown 00:00 Tools
Crossroads (Robert Johnson cover) 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: Recline 00:00 Tools
Who Do You Think You Are 00:00 Tools
Manoir de Mes Reves/Blues en Mineur 00:00 Tools
But no 00:00 Tools
Li'l Darlin' 00:00 Tools
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 00:00 Tools
Tree of Life: Ashwattha 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - Variations on my Father's Footsteps 00:00 Tools
Variations: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem: Eó 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: Decline 00:00 Tools
Egberto Gismonti / Palhaco 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) 00:00 Tools
Price: Variations On An Unoriginal Theme 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem: Variations on My Father's Footsteps 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: Geosyncline 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: Benign 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - Decline 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: No Lyin' 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - Recline 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - Geosyncline 00:00 Tools
Tree of Life: Lucy 00:00 Tools
House burning down 00:00 Tools
Nelson: Yearnin' 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations: But no 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - No Lyin' 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 00:00 Tools
Eurasian Hoedown 00:00 Tools
Acknowledgement 00:00 Tools
Bach,S Lunch 00:00 Tools
Because 00:00 Tools
Tree of Life: Coelacanth 00:00 Tools
The Decline of an American String Quartet: Improvisations - But no 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem: Hindu Toes 00:00 Tools
Manoir Des Mes Reves / Minor Blues 00:00 Tools
Lennon & Paul McCartney: Because 00:00 Tools
Winter / Mvt. III - Snow What 00:00 Tools
Winter / Mvt. I - Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights - Doughboy 00:00 Tools
Wpango 00:00 Tools
Winter / Mvt: II - Texas Rain 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights - Snakes & Ladders 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - eó 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - eo 00:00 Tools
String Quartet No. 1: Balapadem - Variations on my Father's 00:00 Tools
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming 00:00 Tools
So What (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Dave Brubeck / Blue Rondo a la 00:00 Tools
Variations on an Unoriginal Theme 00:00 Tools
Mara's Garden of False Delights: Snakes and Ladders 00:00 Tools
1983... A Merman I Should Turn To Be 00:00 Tools
Milhaud: La Creation Du Monde 00:00 Tools
Rain, The (Vivaldi) (from "The Four Seasons") 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights - Sri, Jo 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) 00:00 Tools
Ashwattha 00:00 Tools
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Julie-O [From Metropolis] 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Spider Dreams 00:00 Tools
Mara's Garden of False Delights: Sri-Jo 00:00 Tools
Mvt. II - Texax Rain 00:00 Tools
Mvt. III - Snow What 00:00 Tools
Mara's Garden of False Delights: Doughboy 00:00 Tools
Lucy 00:00 Tools
Blue In Green - Seven Steps To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: House Burning Down 00:00 Tools
Monkey Business 00:00 Tools
Coelacanth 00:00 Tools
Happy Xmas 00:00 Tools
Chorale No.220 00:00 Tools
The Iron Fist Of Fashion: Movement I 00:00 Tools
The Iron Fist Of Fashion: Movement II 00:00 Tools
Variations on My Father's Footsteps 00:00 Tools
Hindu Toes 00:00 Tools
BACH¦S LUNCH 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Texas Tarantella 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie cover) 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Harmonicade 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Waterfall With Blenders 00:00 Tools
Variations on Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Snow What? 00:00 Tools
Debussy Reverie 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Vassar Goes to Harvard 00:00 Tools
Skylife [From Skylife] 00:00 Tools
Señior Mouse 00:00 Tools
Blue in Green / Seven Steps to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Blue in Green - 7 Steps to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Been…?: 1983…A Mermen I Should Turn To Be 00:00 Tools
Bouncin' with Bud (arr. M. Smoczynski for string quartet) 00:00 Tools
1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be 00:00 Tools
Variations on Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons,Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Variations On Winter From Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Blue In Green 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights- Snakes & Ladders 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: Marwa In the Pines 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: The Bovnik 00:00 Tools
Mvt 3 - Snow What 00:00 Tools
Floor 00:00 Tools
Bowling-Bowling 00:00 Tools
The Rain from 'The Four Seasons' (Vivaldi) 00:00 Tools
Manoir de mes reves / Monor Blues 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice [From by the Fireside] 00:00 Tools
Crossroads [From Skylife] 00:00 Tools
Jaco [From Metropolis] 00:00 Tools
Snow What 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life: Lucy 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights- Doughboy 00:00 Tools
Chorale No 220 00:00 Tools
Manoir de Mes Reves/ Blues en Mineur 00:00 Tools
Claude Debussy-Reverie 00:00 Tools
Li'l Darlin 00:00 Tools
MARWA IN THE PINES - WITH YOU 00:00 Tools
Michael Brecker / Straphangin' 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life: Monkey Business 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights - Sri-Jo 00:00 Tools
Movement II 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: I. Spider Dreams 00:00 Tools
Blues en Mineur 00:00 Tools
Reverie (Claude Debussy) 00:00 Tools
Who Do You Think You Are- 00:00 Tools
The Sidewinder 00:00 Tools
Variations on Winter - Mvt 1 - Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Who Do You Think You Are? [From Who Do You Think We Are?] 00:00 Tools
The Rain (From "the Four Seasons") 00:00 Tools
Variations on "Winter" - Mvt. I - Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Grant Wood [From Skylife] 00:00 Tools
Blue in Green/Seven Steps to Heaven [From Who Do You Think We Are?] 00:00 Tools
Borodin-Nocturne from String Quartet 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life: Coelacanth 00:00 Tools
Variations on 'Winter' - Mvt. I - Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Bring a Torch 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme - Resolution 00:00 Tools
Jean-Luc Ponty / Bowing-Bowing 00:00 Tools
Model Trance 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme - Psalm 00:00 Tools
Lil' Darlin' 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme - Pursuance 00:00 Tools
Mvt 2 - Texax Rain 00:00 Tools
Variations on Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Texas Rain 00:00 Tools
Interchange: I. Introductions 00:00 Tools
Ensenada [From Skylife] 00:00 Tools
Davis: Milestones 00:00 Tools
Balakrishnan: Mara's Garden Of False Delights- Sri, Jo 00:00 Tools
Who Do You Think We Are? 00:00 Tools
Dave Brubeck / Blue Rondo a la Turk 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement 00:00 Tools
Manoir de Mes Reves / Blues en Mineur 00:00 Tools
Señor Mouse [From Skylife] 00:00 Tools
Debussy - Reverie 00:00 Tools
Marwa in the Pines 00:00 Tools
Interchange: II. Dialogue 00:00 Tools
Movement I 00:00 Tools
Anjo Da Guarda 00:00 Tools
Chick Corea / No Mystery 00:00 Tools
Leonard Bernstein / Cool 00:00 Tools
Interchange: III. I solisti 00:00 Tools
Interchange: IV. Tutti 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams: II. Waterfall with blenders 00:00 Tools
Do Something Nice for Your Mother (Monologue) 00:00 Tools
The Floor 00:00 Tools
"Seven Steps to Bach" 00:00 Tools
Tree Of Life: Ashwattha 00:00 Tools
Waterfalls With Blenders 00:00 Tools
Windham Hill 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune/What Is There to Say 00:00 Tools
Borodin: Nocturne from String Quartet # 2 (Turtle Island String Quartet) 00:00 Tools
Windspan 00:00 Tools
The Rain (from The Four Seasons) 00:00 Tools
Confetti Man: I. Confetti Mind 00:00 Tools
Manoir de mes rêves / Minor Blues 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams - Suite for Jazz String Orchestra- [I] Spider Dreams [Fro 00:00 Tools
La Création du Monde 00:00 Tools
Bach - Bach's Lunch 00:00 Tools
Who do you think you are? (arr. for string quartet) 00:00 Tools
The Decline Of An American String Quartet: Improvisations - 6. Benign 00:00 Tools
Senior Mouse 00:00 Tools
Spider Dreams - Suite for Jazz String Orchestra: 00:00 Tools
Mark Summer / Battuto 00:00 Tools
Leo Kottke / Oddball 00:00 Tools
Bach's Lunch, variations on themes by J.S. Bach, for string quartet 00:00 Tools
TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET 01 Moment's notice 00:00 Tools
Le Tombeau de Couperin: Nocturne From String Quartet No. 2 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia (arr. for String Quartet and Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
Naima [Live] 00:00 Tools
Blue in Green/Seven Steps to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Tracy Silverman / The 12th of December 00:00 Tools
The Decline Of An American String Quartet: Improvisations - 5. But No 00:00 Tools
Tutti 00:00 Tools
The Decline Of An American String Quartet: Improvisations - 2. Decline 00:00 Tools
David Balakrishnan / Suite: 'spider Dreams': iI. Waterfall With Blenders 00:00 Tools
Mother Goose Suite 00:00 Tools
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The Turtle Island Quartet (known as the "Turtle Island String Quartet" before the 2007 release of A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane) is a San Francisco Bay Area based jazz string quartet formed in 1985 and still actively touring worldwide and recording as of 2011. They take the classical string quartet experiments of Béla Bartók and rack them up a notch, while occasionally revealing their bluegrass swing roots. They were the first string quartet to achieve artistic and commercial success integrating jazz improvisation, jazz rhythms and comping using extended techniques. Their extensive repertoire consists primarily of compositions and arrangements by quartet members that highlight their versatility by bridging several styles including bluegrass, European classical music, funk, jazz, Latin American music, and Indian classical music. They became known for their renditions of jazz standards, such as founding violinist David Balakrishnan's Grammy-nominated arrangement of "A Night In Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie, "Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson, or "Blue Rondo a la Turk" by Dave Brubeck on Art of the Groove, as well as for jazz interpretations of famous classical music pieces, as shown on the humorously titled "Bach's Lunch" on The Hamburg Concert. The quartet has also covered rock and roll pieces, such as Jimi Hendrix's "Gypsy Eyes" on Who Do We Think We Are? and Eric Clapton's - originally Robert Johnson's - "Crossroads" on Skylife. In addition to playing as a quartet, they have collaborated with renowned jazz artists such as clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and pianist Kenny Barron, the classical string quartet Ying Quartet, and several major orchestras. Their name was taken by co-founder Darol Anger from Native American mythology, where "Turtle Island" is the name for the North American continent, courtesy of poet Gary Snyder's influential book of the same name. Current members include David Balakrishnan (violin), Mark Summer (cello), Mads Tolling (violin), and Jeremy Kittel (viola). More information can be found at http://turtleislandquartet.com/. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.