[Dixielandjazz] Ebene String Quartet (Quatuor Ebene)

[Stephen G Barbone]

Do you like the music of string quartets? If so check out Ebene.  
Perhaps not OKOM but I wish they would play some and put it on their  
web site

Quatuor Ebene is a wonderful string quartet based in Paris with a  
broad classical repertoire. Plus they crossover into jazz, but as far  
as I can tell, not our kind of jazz. I sure would like to hear them  
play some OKOM as they are great.

They are very popular. Virtuosos all.

Their renditions of Miles Davis's "All Blues", and Chick Core's  
"Spain" are great. See website page below. Listen especially to the  
swinging, precise pizzicato of the cellist. Also, to see them in  
action, click on the video of their "Pulp Fiction". Visit:

http://www.quatuorebene.com/en/article/page/jazz

And check out their schedule. Portland, Seattle, New York, Gainsville  
coming up in the next 10 days. They just finished a concert at the Le  
Poisson Rouge in NYC which was not listed on their schedule, but  
reviewed glowingly in the NY Times.

NY Times: "After a short break the quartet returned for its jazz set,  
in which the cellist, Raphaël Merlin, frequently played like a jazz  
bassist, with as much pizzicato as bowing, and plenty of bent notes.  
His solos and those of his colleagues — Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le  
Magadure, violinists, and Mathieu Herzog, violist — were spirited and  
consistently inventive. It would be hard to say which version of the  
Ebène quartet is more pleasing; but then, you don’t have to.'

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband