Basquiat Strings

Basquiat Strings are a five piece string group with their own repertoire of originals (composed by cellist Ben Davis) and arrangements.



Ben finds inspiration from the raucous, driving Hungarian string groups of Transylvania, the luxuriously rich Brahms sextets and the unruly compositions and workshop arrangements of Charles Mingus. Well, all that and people asking him to fix strings for their sessions.



The players have all trained classically yet are "naturally bilingualwholly imbued with jazz’s improvisational facility." (Chris Parker)



The group has been involved with various other live projects including that of Juliet Roberts and Andrew McCormack; and has recorded for Ty, Darren Emerson, Monica Vasconcelos (Nois 4) Border Crossing and the Ed Moto produced Jazzinho record.



Basquiat Strings were nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize for their album "Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford".



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