ABOUT JSQ

Blending jazz and classical styles that both
Mozart and Miles would surely dig!
In 1997, Jim Gailloreto embarked on a new project called Jazz String Quintet.  It is an integration of both jazz
and classical music written for string quartet and soprano saxophone.  Inspired by sources as diverse as
Debussy and Ravel to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, composer and saxophonist Jim Gailloreto offers a
perfect blend of classical music and jazz: structure and spontaneity. The compositions interweave his own
soprano saxophone with skilled modernist writing for string quartet.  “No composer has shaped the
structures and layered the phrases of the string quartet to so successfully accommodate full-tilt
improvisation,” writes jazz authority Neil Tesser.

Jazz String Quintet is immersed in all the traditions and performance practices of classical music, while
simultaneously expanding and exploring all the truest elements of jazz.  Working with longtime associates of
The HAWK String Quartet, Jazz String Quintet achieves a true fusion of forms, which has collaborated with
such artists as vocalist Kurt Elling, pianist-composer Fred Hersch, Corky Siegel’s “Chamber Blues” and
West African kora player Foday Musa Suso.
JIM GAILLORETO'S
JAZZ STRING QUINTET
JIM GAILLORETO sax soprano
KATHERINE HUGHES violin
CAROL KALVONJIAN violin
BENTON WEDGE viola
JILL KAEDINK cello

JAZZFORMATION
JIM GAILLORETO sax
JOHN KREGOR guitar
KURT SCHWEITZ bass
ANDRE BEASLEY  drums
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INFO AND BOOKING
COCO PRODUCTIONS, Inc.
P. O. BOX 114
LANSING, IL 60438
Phone: 708 . 474-3741
Cell. 708 . 527-5985
E-Mail: cocobucci@live.com
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JIM GAILLORETO'S
JAZZ STRING QUINTET
AMERICAN COMPLEX
ORIGIN CLASSIC - 2011