Diane Monroe and her quartets and more, from Max Roach to Heitor Villa-Lobos and well beyond: Saturday Music Club on Friday

Diane Monroe, improvising violinist

playlist partially selected by her cousin, April Landrum
Diane Monroe's selected media tracks 
Further audio tracks

The Max Roach Double Quartet in Stuttgart, 1990

Max Roach, drums
Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet
Odean Pope, saxophone
Tyrone Brown, bass
Diane Monroe, violin
Lesa Terry, violin
Maxine Roach, viola
and Eileen Folson, cello:
The Max Roach Quartet and the Uptown String Quartet

The Uptown String Quartet at Duke University, 1993


The Uptown String Quartet: "Overture" (Odean Pope)


The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Irish Monk"

Diane Monroe - Violin Tony Miceli - Vibes Tony Marino - Bass Todd Isler - Percussion

The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Blues for Miles"


The Diane Monroe Collective: "Du Bois Diddy"


Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: "Bachians Brazilieras #5" (Heitor Villa-Lobos)


Diane Monroe, featured soloist, Orchestra 2001:
Canto di Ritorno (Concerto for Violin and Small Orchestra) (Andrew Rudin)

Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: At Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, 22 May 2017


Jose Bowen and Diane Monroe: "After You've Gone"


Melody Gardot (featuring Diane Monroe): "Gone"


Diane Monroe and the Z Big Band: "Funk" (from Concerto for Violin and Big Band by Evan Solot)

...includes nearly four minutes of spoken introduction by others.

Diane Monroe interview: 19 December 2018

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some sounds of Philadelphia

Marian Anderson


John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison

A survey of concert footage from various Coltrane bands.

Bill Haley and the Comets


Dee Dee Sharp


Séamus Egan


LaBelle


The Max Roach Quartet with Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Cecil Bridgewater (Pope and Brown Philly's own)


The Roots (and Erykah Badu)

a leisurely live version with Jill Scott singing powerfully instead of Badu

Jennifer Higdon, composer (on commission from the Philadelphia Orchestra)