About this title: String quartets playing anything but classical music, while not commonplace, are also not unique -- see Kronos, Turtle Island, Max Roach's Double Quartet, or Quartette Indigo for a few examples. In the case of Quartet San Francisco, their repertoire is all over the map, from cartoon jazz to standards, American popular songs, tango and disco, the ...
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Tracks on this album
Tracks:
- Powerhouse
- Spain, for voice & ensemble
- The Mooche
- Pick Up The Pieces, song (cut from "Seesaw")
- Tanguori, for string quartet
- Boy Scout in Switzerland
- Peter Tambourine
- Rich in Love, film score~I Hear Music
- Harlem Nocturne
- Dawg's Bull
- Bai mir bistu scheyn (To me you are beautiful)
- The Penguin
- Celebration on the Planet Mars
- West Side Story, musical~Gee Officer Krupke
- The Toy Trumpet
- Under the Sea (for Disney's The Little Mermaid)
- Siberian Sleighride
- What is Hip
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.