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...followed this immersion with a solid grounding in classical and jazz piano, then launched his career with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and later with a quintet led by saxophonist Phil Woods, with whom he continues to make appearances today. "What struck me was his depth," says Woods. "A lot of young players have university credentials but have lost touch with the street. They all sound the same. Not Bill. He really gets down deep into...
...labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant's fractured English. "His sentences were a riot of hangers and danglers," she notes. She soon found herself wrestling not with Russian prose but with Tiger's, and that suited...
MUSIC | The Ying Quartet...
...talented classical band of siblings, the Ying Quartet, will be performing a quarter-past ‘noontime concert’ entitled “Dean’s Noontime Concert: The Ying Quartet.” 12:15 p.m. Faculty Room, University Hall...
...triumphant junior effort of the experimental math post-rock group Battles, is as intelligent and compelling as it is weird. The quartet, featuring John Stanier of Helmet and Ian Williams of Don Caballero, is not your ordinary band, with perplexing track names, a record called EP C that came out before B EP and whose website biography is a series of scrawled diagrams, pictures and drawings. Not content to be merely strange, they also produce incredible musical compositions—the instrumental songs on their latest album are strikingly diverse, both internally and against each other, with track lengths varying...