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Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut at Mccullough Theatre
Courtesy of Nadia Zakariya | Posted on August 26, 2015
Where
Mccullough Theatre
2375 Robert Dedman Dr
Austin, TX
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When
Sun, September 27, 2015
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Turtle Island Quartet
band / ensemble / orchestraCyrus Chestnut
pianoAbout
Jelly, Rags & Monk
Presented in partnership with UT String Project and KUTX’s “Sunday Morning Jazz” with Jay Trachtenberg
The Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet are joined by jazz pianist extraordinaire Cyrus Chestnut for this brand new program that embraces a range of composers—from Jelly Roll Morton to Thelonious Monk. Displaying their formidable collective virtuosity, the quintet makes soulful and sweet connections that delve deeply into the jazz and classical traditions.
Their glorious fusion of jazz and chamber music makes the Turtle Island Quartet the very definition of chamber jazz. Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American music styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined....