The Quartet News

The Drew Lewis/Jonah Philion Quartet, a youth combo, has been playing for about one year under the direction of Jason Patera, of Oak Park, a co-founder of the Caltera School in Berwyn.

DATE: November 19, 7.15 p.m. VENUE: The Music Academy The Australian saxophonist-composer James Ryan from Darwin who arrived in Sydney via lengthy stints in Canberra, Brisbane and London, is not one to sit still, geographically or musically.

November 9, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet willl perform at DePauw University next Monday, November 16.

5 at the Flynn Center in Burlington. His dance company, MOMIX , will present a program titled " REMIX ," a retrospective showing highlights of the past 25 years of the dance company's athletic, adventurous work.

THE Neil Maya Quartet will be bringing their dynamic jazz to the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre near Taunton tomorrow from 7.30pm. The Quartet, known throughout the South-West as one of the regions finest jazz outfits play a mix of their own compositions and re-workings including swing, jazz funk, Latin African jazz and even a bit of folk rock.

In 1974, the USSR expelled dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Oskar Schindler passed away, Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers, and jazz guitarist John Abercrombie recorded his first session as a leader for ECM Records.

I don't imagine the Eric Revis Quartet was assembled with reconciliation in mind, but to a hobbled veteran of the Jazz Wars -the squabbles and skirmishes over the music's boundaries that raged throughout the '80s, '90s, and early aughts-the lineup would look like an improvising West-Eastern Divan Orchestra .

This is a translation of Musafirbek's post . The Brian Horton Quartet started its tour of Uzbekistan with a concert at the Turkiston Palace in Tashkent, where it was supposed to perform with local singer Aysel Balich .

Jazz innovators vibraphonist Gary Burton and guitarist Pat Metheny reunite in an exclusive area concert by the GARY BURTON QUARTET: REVISITED at the Keswick Theatre, Wed., June 24 @ 8 PM.