The Kronos Quartet

Formed: 1973
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Styles: Avant-Garde, Classical, Minimalism
Group Members: Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Jennifer Culp, Jeffrey Zeigler
Biography: Few groups have so successfully bridged the gap between classical and popular music as the Kronos Quartet; expanding the parameters of their repertoire to include compositions from rock, jazz, and world music, the New York-based artists have recorded a body of work virtually unparalleled in its dedication ...Read full biography
Salome Dances for Peace
Released: 1989
Label: Nonesuch
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There is no string quartet that has ever been written that can compare length and diversity with Terry Riley's Salome Dances for Peace. Morton Feldman has written a longer one, but it is confined to his ...Read full review
Music of Bill Evans with Special Guests Eddie Gomez & Jim Hall
Released: 1985
Label: Savoy
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For their second and final jazz project, the adventurous Kronos Quartet (a top classical string quartet) performed eight Bill Evans compositions, plus "Nardis" (which Evans always claimed Miles Davis stole ...Read full review
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