Jay Blakesberg -The Turtle Island Quartet brings its interpretations of Jimi Hendrix tunes to Sacramento State on Wednesday. Roundup: Turtle Island Quartet at CSUS jcarnes@sacbee.com Friday, Mar. 25, 2011 The Turtle Island Quartet takes a different approach to the music of Hendrix – the four-piece string quartet approach – when it performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sac State. The classical-jazz fusion trendsetters have a special affinity for Hendrix. The quartet's latest release, "Have You ... Read More
Archives for March 2011
Classical gets experienced? Hooked on Hendrix?
String quartet tip bows to Hendrix By Mike Bell, Calgary Herald March 25, 2011 4:02 AM Preview Turtle Island Quartet performs Saturday at the Banff Centre. Classical gets experienced? Hooked on Hendrix? Both descriptions seem apt but really only scratch the surface when it comes to the current work of Grammy-winning string ensemble, Turtle Island Quartet, who bring their reinterpretations of the songs of Jimi Hendrix to the Banff Centre Saturday. In fact, Mark Summer, cellist and co-founder ... Read More
Lafayette's The Town Talk reviews us
Toe-tapping jazz, funk and rock 'n' roll was not what a couple hundred teenagers expected to hear from a string quartet Friday. Alyssa Lee, an eighth-grade L.J. Allmean Arts Academy student, expected her class would be listening to classical music on its field trip to see the Turtle Island Quartet at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. "When I heard them I didn't know it was strings, because of all the different types of techniques and sounds," Alyssa, 13, said. The quartet was made up of a ... Read More
WNYC Soundcheck with John Schaefer
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Review of our Symphony Space show aka The Hendrix Project
Music Review Unplugging the Hendrix Experience By ALLAN KOZINN Published: March 3, 2011 In 1969 David Balakrishnan, then a teenage violin student, attended a Jimi Hendrix concert in Los Angeles that led him to reconsider his approach to his instrument, and to music more broadly. He began learning some of Hendrix’s guitar solos on the violin, and he decided that his repertory should embrace both classical music and pop. As a composer he extended that philosophy to his own music. Mr. ... Read More