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Turtle Island Quartet at Pollak Theater At Monmouth University
Courtesy of Kelly Barratt | Posted on February 3, 2015
Where
Pollak Theater At Monmouth University
400 Cedar Ave.
West Long Branch, NJ
Map
732-263-6889
When
Thu, February 26, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Turtle Island Quartet
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island Quartet presents Birth of the Cool — celebrating what became known as “Cool Jazz,” marked by the embodiment of cool, Miles Davis, along with his colleagues Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan, as well as the Modern Jazz Quartet and Dave Brubeck. In addition to their masterful jazz string quartet interpretations from the Birth of the Cool recording, Turtle Island offers a program of perennial favorites such as Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo A La Turk, Gerry Mulligan’s Bernie’s Tune, Miles Davis’s dreamy Miles Ahead, and the Modern Jazz Quartet’s darker Django....