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About String Thing

String Thing is a jazz ensemble formed in 2007 at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View, California. String Thing performs jazz with strings as the "horns" of a conventional jazz ensemble. The group is made up of two violins (Marty Honda and Mary Helen Weinstein), a guitar (Fred Malouf), piano (Joe Roark), bass (Antony Bichon) and drums (Ricky Takahashi). One of the violins played in the group is a baritone violin, which is tuned an octave below a standard violin. It plays the role that a tenor sax or trombone would play in a conventional jazz ensemble. The standard violin plays the role that an alto sax or trumpet would play. The group plays all the jazz standards from Monk to Jobim, as well as original compositions in the spirit of these masters. String Thing is NOT a string quartet doing jazz (like Turtle Island) or a "gypsy jazz" group focussing on Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli (with all due respect to these pioneers of string jazz). And String Thing is certainly not Bond or their like.

General Info

  • Genre: Jazz

    Location Mountain View, California, Un

    Profile Views: 4772

    Last Login: 6/24/2011

    Member Since 8/20/2008

    Record Label Unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    String Thing is a jazz ensemble formed in 2007 at the Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View, California. String Thing performs jazz with strings as the "horns" of a conventional jazz ensemble. The group is made up of two violins (Marty Honda and Mary Helen Weinstein), a guitar (Fred Malouf), piano (Joe Roark), bass (Jordi Cirera) and drums (Ricky Takahashi). One of the violins played in the group is a baritone violin, which is tuned an octave below a standard violin. It plays the role that a tenor sax or trombone would play in a conventional jazz ensemble. The standard violin plays the role that an alto sax or trumpet would play. The group plays all the jazz standards from Monk to Jobim, as well as original compositions in the spirit of these masters. String Thing is NOT a string quartet doing jazz (like ..Turtle Island..) or a "gypsy jazz" group focussing on Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli (with all due respect to these pioneers of string jazz). And String Thing is certainly not ..Bond.. or their like. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ....

  • Members

    Violins: Marty Honda and Mary Helen Weinstein .. Guitar: Fred Malouf .. Piano: Joe Roark .. Bass: Antony Bichon .. Drums: Ricky Takahashi .. .. Musical Advisors: Rich Kuhns, Dan Nieckarz, John Neves ..

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