Blending jazz and classical styles that both Mozart and Miles would surely dig! Jazz String Quintet In 1997, Jim Gailloreto embarked on a new project called Jazz String Quinte... (more)

Blending jazz and classical styles that both Mozart and Miles would surely dig! Jazz String Quintet In 1997, Jim Gailloreto embarked on a new project called Jazz String Quintet. It is an integration of both jazz and classical music written for string quartet and soprano saxophone. Inspired by sources as diverse as Debussy and Ravel to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, composer and saxophonist Jim Gailloreto offers a perfect blend of classical music and jazz: structure and spontaneity. The compositions interweave his own soprano saxophone with skilled modernist writing for string quartet. No composer has shaped the structures and layered the phrases of the string quartet to so successfully accommodate full-tilt improvisation, writes jazz authority Neil Tesser. JSQ is immersed in all the traditions and performance practices of classical music, while simultaneously expanding and exploring all the truest elements of jazz. Working with longtime associates of The HAWK String Quartet, Jazz String Quintet achieves a true fusion of forms, which has collaborated with such artists as vocalist Kurt Elling, pianist-composer Fred Hersch and West African kora player Foday Musa Suso. Jim Gailloreto is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. He has a Bachelors in Music Composition from De Paul University and a Masters in Music Composition from Northwestern University. He is a recipient of the New Works: Creation & Presentation Program Grant from Chamber Music America ... (less)

Keywords: jazz string quartet improvisation classical music soprano saxophone kurt elling patricia barber grammy award winning string arrangement unity temple concert series cello viola violin

Jazz String Quintet Blending jazz and classical styles that both Mozart and Miles would surely dig! In 1997, Jim Gailloreto embarked on a new project called Jazz String Quinte... (more)

Jazz String Quintet Blending jazz and classical styles that both Mozart and Miles would surely dig! In 1997, Jim Gailloreto embarked on a new project called Jazz String Quintet. It is an integration of both jazz and classical music written for string quartet and soprano saxophone. Inspired by sources as diverse as Debussy and Ravel to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, composer and saxophonist Jim Gailloreto offers a perfect blend of classical music and jazz: structure and spontaneity. The compositions interweave his own soprano saxophone with skilled modernist writing for string quartet. No composer has shaped the structures and layered the phrases of the string quartet to so successfully accommodate full-tilt improvisation, writes jazz authority Neil Tesser. JSQ is immersed in all the traditions and performance practices of classical music, while simultaneously expanding and exploring all the truest elements of jazz. Working with longtime associates of The HAWK String Quartet, Jazz String Quintet achieves a true fusion of forms, which has collaborated with such artists as vocalist Kurt Elling, pianist-composer Fred Hersch and West African kora player Foday Musa Suso. Jim Gailloreto is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. He has a Bachelors in Music Composition from De Paul University and a Masters in Music Composition from Northwestern University. He is a recipient of the New Works: Creation & Presentation Program Grant from Chamber Music America ... (less)

Keywords: jazz string quartet improvisation classical music soprano saxophone kurt elling patricia barber grammy award winning string arrangement unity temple concert series cello viola violin