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: Some More 3rd Stream Music: Modern Jazz Quartet, Brubeck Quartet, McKay & Turtle Island Quartet, Monk Quartet, Jazz Abstractions, Ellington Orchestra, Mingus Sextet, Akiyoshi/Tabackin Big Band, Roach Double Quartet, Coleman with the LSO

The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Lonely Woman"

Brubeck Quartet (Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Gene Wright): "Koto Song"

The Brubeck Quartet on Jazz 625 (BBC-TV, 1964) (sadly, the bit of "In Your Own Sweet Way" at the close is pretty distorted, but most of the rest has survived OK)

Nellie McKay and the Turtle Island Quartet: "Send Me No Flowers"


Thelonious Monk Quartet: "Epistrophy"; "'Round Midnight"; "Lulu's Back in Town"

1. Epistrophy (0:00)
2. Round Midnight (3:20)
3. Lulu's Back In Town (10:30)
Thelonious Monk - piano
Charles Rouse - tenor
Lawrence Gales - bass
Benjamin Riley - drums

Gunther Schuller and the Jazz Abstractions Band: "Variants on a Theme of John Lewis (Django)"

John Lewis presents contemporary music " Jazz Abstractions "
Eric Dolphy (fl), Robert DiDomenica (fl), Jim Hall (g), Eddie Costa (vib), Bill Evans (p), Scott Lafaro (b), George Duvivier (b),  Sticks Evans (ds), The Contemporary String Quartet
Recorded 20/12/1960 in NYC

The Duke Ellington Orchestra: "Idiom '59" (Part 2)

Mingus Sextet: "Take the 'A' Train"

live on April 12, 1964 in Norway--sadly, the recording quality's a little rough in intense spots, but...
Charles Mingus - Bass
Eric Dolphy - Bass Clarinet
Clifford Jordan - Tenor Sax
Johnny Coles - Trumpet
Jaki Byard - Piano
Dannie Richmond - Drums

The Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Feast in Milano"

Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band in Vienne (France), 1996.
Piano, leader and arranger: Toshiko Akiyoshi,
Trumpets: Mike Ponella, John Eckert, Andrew J. Gravish, Joe Magnarelli
Trombones: Pat Hallaren, Joe Helleny, Scott Whitfield, Tim Newman
saxes, flutes, clar.: Lew Tabackin, Dave Pietro, Jim Snidero, Tom Christensen, Scott Robinson
Bass: Doug Weiss
Drums: Terry Clarke

The Max Roach Double Quartet in Stuttgart, 1990

Roach, Cecil Bridgewater, Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Diane Monroe, Lesa Terry, Maxine Roach and Eileen Folson. The latter four being The Uptown String Quartet 

Max Roach, Stanley Cowell and the Northern Colorado University Big Band

Ornette Coleman and the London Symphony Orchestra: Skies of America

1. "Skies of America" — 2:49
2. "Native Americans" — 1:10
3. "The Good Life" — 1:33
4. "Birthdays and Funerals" — 3:13
5. "Dreams" — 0:51
6. "Sounds of Sculpture" — 1:20
7. "Holiday for Heroes" — 1:10
8. "All of My Life" — 3:08
9. "Dancers" — 1:17
10. "The Soul Within Woman" — 0:47
11. "The Artists in America" — 3:54
12. "The New Anthem" — 0:31
13. "Place in Space" — 2:44
14. "Foreigner in a Free Land" — 1:19
15. "Silver Screen" — 1:10
16. "Poetry" — 1:15
17. "The Men Who Live in the White House" — 2:48
18. "Love Life" — 4:34
19. "The Military" — 0:32
20. "Jam Session" — 0:39
21. "Sunday in America" — 4:29