Quartet San Francisco

Working sort of classical crossover groove with intervals of jazz improvisation somewhat in the vein from the Turtle Island String Quartet, Quartet SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (structured, obviously, in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA bay area) includes a high amount of Latin affects into its appear. The quartet initial performed jointly in 2001 and released a debut record, Quartet SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, a year afterwards, utilizing a lineup of violinists Jeremy Cohen and Adam Shallenberger, violist Emily Onderdonk, cellist Joel Cohen, and bassist Adam Kerwin. With the group’s second record, 2006’s Latigo, the account got stabilized with Kayo Miki changing Shallenberger on second violin as well as the group no more utilizing a bassist (John Santos provides occasional percussion for the record).