Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Known for its work as an experimental string quartet and for its close ...

It’s a broadcast of String Quartets of the Modern Era with two fabulous quartets It’s a broadcast of String Quartets of the Modern Era with the Telegraph Quartet and the Jerusalem Quartet on the next ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings Prestige 2003 Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond were busy trading in the irregular time signatures that made their album’s ...

The Maxwell String Quartet frequently fields questions about being an all-male ensemble. In fact, the Scottish group had to set the record straight in its hometown Glasgow newspaper, The Herald, when ...

The La Jolla Music Society‘s chamber music series continues Saturday evening with the “modern vikings” of the Danish String Quartet. The quartet, which made its debut 12 years ago in Copenhagen, has ...

Singers of Anne Sofie von Otter’s calibre and versatility are rare. And when partnered with string quartet Brooklyn Rider who played with precision and panache, the Hong Kong audience was treated to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn It says a lot for Stephen Hartke’s “Night Songs for a Desert Flower” (2009) that when the Brentano String Quartet ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

AFTER THREE DECADES and a half dozen albums, Dana Rath almost broke up the Modern Mandolin Quartet. Now that the group is nominated for three Grammy Awards, he’s glad he didn’t. “Americana,” recorded ...

Percy Heath, the superb bassist who for more than 40 years provided the sublime underpinnings for the Modern Jazz Quartet, died Thursday of bone cancer at a hospital in Southampton, New York. He was ...