Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut

Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut
Friday, October 9, 2015; 8pm

The extraordinary jazz pianist, Cyrus Chestnut, and the Grammy award-winning Turtle Island Quartet are back together, displaying their formidable collective virtuosity. Making soulful and sweet connections that delve deeply into the jazz and classical traditions, the quintet embraces a range of composers – from Jelly Roll Morton to Thelonious Monk. Turtle Island and Cyrus Chestnut draw a blazing and virtuosic line from the early roots of jazz directly to Monk, one of the geniuses of the modern jazz era.

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