For their second and final jazz project, the adventurous
Kronos Quartet (a top classical string quartet) performed eight
Bill Evans compositions, plus "Nardis" (which
Evans always claimed
Miles Davis stole from him). Three songs apiece add either guitarist
Jim Hall or bassist
Eddie Gomez. The members of
Kronos (
David Harrington and
John Sherba on violin,
Hank Dutt on viola, and cellist
Joan Jeanrenaud) do not improvise, but they expertly play Tom Darter's arrangements, some of which (particularly "Peace Piece") are transcriptions of pianist
Evans' solos. Overall this was an intriguing project, as was
Kronos' slightly earlier interpretations of
Thelonious Monk tunes. ~ Scott Yanow