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String Quartet Difference : Take Care Of The Difference
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Open your fantasy to new colours. Enter the magic and passion of jazz played by sensual strings.
Genre: Jazz: Chamber Jazz
Release Date: 2001
Take Care Of The Difference Record Label: Gailitis G
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Alice In Wonderland 4:37 Album Only
Summertime 4:43 Album Only
Blue In Green 5:02 Album Only
Solar 3:36 Album Only
Errances 6:46 Album Only
Girl From Ipanema 5:43 Album Only
Helle 6:16 Album Only
My Favorite Things 5:29 Album Only
A Child Is Born 5:48 Album Only
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Album Notes

Talking about international challenge? What about this?

4 professional classical musicians from Latvia (all graduated from the Jâz.Vitols Latvian Academy of Music) meeting a french jazz composer and arranger living in Denmark !

Their name? Difference! Which difference you say?
Well be ready to get your body and soul injected with
tons of vitamins.

What you'll hear on this CD are well known jazz standards
seriously getting a second birth.

Not "one more ...".

The treatment here will stimulate your brain and is highly challenging: use of odd meters or unusual rhythmic combinations
and complex harmonies for creating the ideal surrounding
to exciting improvisation.

Add to this a few personal compositions from their french arranger Pierre Tassone and you have the cocktail ready.

Would you try the drink? Well drink my friends ....

And take good care of the Difference!

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REVIEWS

author: CD Baby
Four classical musicians from Latvia (!), and a French jazz composer/arranger from Denmark made this beautiful unique CD of well-known jazz standards performed by a classical string quartet. Stimulating and challenging: use of odd meters, unusual rhythmic combinations and complex harmonies create an ideal surrounding for exciting improvisation. PERFECT for when you're feeling a litle bit classical but not in the mood for Mozart.
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A new manifestation of Contemporary Classical Music
author: Vitaly Menshikov / Progressor
With this album, Pierre Tassone and the string quartet Difference have once again proved that there is nothing supernatural in the union of such opposite genres as Classical Music and Jazz. It seems that's true, despite the fact that the essence of the first of them is the composition, whereas the essence of the latter is the improvisation performed on the spur of the moment. In my view, there are no differences between Zero and Infinity and the trips to the Micro World can be as endless and rich in discoveries as the flights to the Macro World. All in all, "Take Care of the Difference" is in many ways a unique album.
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When Jazz meets classical, world and contemporary music
author: Luc Marianni/ Radio Idfm (paris And Area)
Disque surprenant de qualité et de finesse.Une alliance rarement égalée entre le jazz, le classique et le contemporain. Des arrangements novateurs, délicats qui donnent toute la force à l'album et mettent en valeur avec un infini respect et un amour, les compositions (devenues aujourd'hui des standards)de Maitres (M.Davis, Gershin,A.C. Jobim....), le tout interprété par un quatuor de virtuose dans une ambiance sereine à la fois minimale, mélodique et complexe. Une maturité musicale spontanéé qui fait de ce disque une pièce unique,un modèle et une référence dans le sens où il renouvelle complètement l'art de l'arrangement et de l'interprètation, et ouvre la voie à de nouvelles générations de musiciens libérés de carcans dans lesquels se sont enfermés le Jazz, le Classique et le Contemporain. Merci pour cet apport majeur et cette bouffée d'oxygène . J'attend déjà le disque suivant avec impatience........... Luc Marianni, Animateur et Programmateur depuis 1993 de l'émission "A la recherche du temps présent" sur IDFM (98FM à Paris et autour)le 23-10-2001
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A Jazz Classical or a Classical Jazz?
author: Alex Saba
I listen to this CD many times but since the first one it takes my breath away. It's rare to listen classical musicians playing jazz with swing. I love all arragements for the standards, but I also have to mention the two brilliants songs writen by Pierre Tassone. Great album. Best of the year.
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