Biography
Pioneering the integration of improvisation within a classical chamber ensemble, the Turtle Island String Quartet became the first jazz act to adopt such instrumentation. Quartette Indigo pursued an analogous direction. The group comprised violinists Regina Carter and Marlene Rice, violist Ron Lawrence, and cellist-leader Akua Dixon. On its 1997 Savant debut Afrika! Afrika!, Quartette Indigo presented twelve Dixon arrangements. The program moved from original material to “Song For My Father,” “A Night In Tunisia,” and Eubie Blake’s “Fizz Water.”
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