Quartette Indigo

The Turtle Isle String Quartet was the initial jazz group using the instrumentation of the chamber music quartet to improvise. Quartette Indigo implemented within the same custom. Comprising Regina Carter and Marlene Grain on violins, Ron Lawrence on viola and cellist-leader Akua Dixon, Quartette Indigo performed twelve Dixon arrangements on the documenting debut, Afrika! Afrika! (on Savant) in 1997. Their music ranged from originals to “Track For MY DAD,” “A Night time In Tunisia” and Eubie Blake’s “Fizz Drinking water.”