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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.
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.
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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: coco@cocoprojazz.com
COCO PRODUCTIONS, Inc.
P. O. BOX 114
LANSING, IL 60438
Phone: 708-474-3741
Cell. 708-527-5985
E-Mail: coco@cocoprojazz.com
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