{"id":8711,"date":"2017-10-05T19:37:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2017-10-05T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T03:10:18","slug":"dizzy-gillespie-by-the-harlem-quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/10\/dizzy-gillespie-by-the-harlem-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy Gillespie By The Harlem Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" \/>From Hollywood comes an announcement by The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts that on October 15 the Harlem Quartet will perform at the center. The ensemble from upper Manhattan specializes not only in the usual suspects among classical composers for string quartet\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSchubert, Grieg, Debussy, Barber, et al\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut they also regularly perform pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chick Corea, Billy Strayhorn and Dizzy Gillespie. The best classical musicians have long had the technical ability required for jazz, but it often seemed that asking them to learn to improvise, much less to swing, was akin to suggesting that they practice blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>That conviction has softened to the point that there are several string quartets with jazz repertoires, among them the Turtle Island quartet, Germany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Modern String Quartet, the Take Five String Quartet in Singapore, South Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Soweto String Quartet and in California, Quartet San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Harlem Quartet with Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Night In Tunisia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Left to right in the video: Imar Gavil\u00c3\u00a1n and Melissa White, violins; Felix Umansky, cello; Jaime Amador, viola. Whoever posted this on <em>YouTube<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0didn&#8217;t give it much volume. You may need to turn up your speakers.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g180smMvrEA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For details about the quartet&#8217;s Hollywood concert, <a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.wordfly.com\/view\/?sid=NDUwXzM0NzlfMTMzNTA2XzY5OTk&amp;l=20dd90e3-f0a9-e711-8416-e41f1345a486&amp;utm_source=wordfly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=PRESS%3AHarlemQuartet(October2017)&amp;utm_content=version_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go here<\/a>. For more about classical music and improvisation, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/06\/jam-sessions.html\">this post <\/a>from the<em> Rifftides<\/em> archive. It involves Andre Previn and the Vienna Philharmonic and, separately, a jazz pianist sitting in on a folkish jam session in a Scottish pub.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hollywood comes an announcement by The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts that on October 15 the Harlem Quartet will perform at the center. 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