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. Through this grant he has created an intricate four movement work entitled American Complex.
His string quartet arrangements can be heard on Kurt Elling's CD "Dedicated To You". He recently performed a Chicago premier of Marc Anthony Turnage's "Scorched" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and John Scofield.
The HAWK String Quartet
Katherine Hughes is a versatile violinist who has worked for a broad range of musical groups, performing with internationally known artists such as Burt Bacharach, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bolton, Garth Brooks, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Dennis DeYoung, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, Lyle Lovett, Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, Johnny Mathis, Bernadette Peters, and Barry White.
Carol Kalvonjian enjoys a versatile career, performing with ensembles including the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Joffrey Ballet, Metropolis Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic and Ravinia Festival Orchestra. In addition to live radio broadcasts on WFMT and CBC (Canada), she has collaborated in recital performances with guitarist Fareed Hague. Festival appearances include Spoleto Festival USA, Scotia Festival of Music, Colorado Music Festival, and Woodstock Mozart Festival.
Benton Wedge received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Northwestern University where he studied with Peter Slowik. Based in Chicago, he performs with groups including Lyric Opera, Grant Park Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Chicago Symphony. He also was a member of the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and the Fidelio String Quartet in Portugal for three years.
Jill Kaeding earned her degree at DePaul University where she studied with cellist Gilda Barston and Joseph Sciacchitano and the late Frank Miller both of the Chicago Symphony. Known for her versatility in all mediums of chamber music, Jill has performed with contemporary multi-media ensembles as well as jazz standard deconstruction and rock with Lyle Lovett, Ray Charles and the Revolution Ensemble.
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Bad Clowns by Jim Gailloretoby gailloreto1,428 views
Really, really nice Jim!!! Good blend too. Have you ever played tenor or alto with the quartet? I've done a little with tenor and str. qrt. but haven't really established a reg. group yet. I hope to start composing material for it like you. You have inspired me to go ahead and pursue it! :-) I have a few things on YouTube. See "Go Down Moses" -Lance Bryant
HisSon33 1 year ago