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Take the intimate sound of a string quartet, add some jazz, and you have Turtle Island Quartet. Turtle Island String Quartet. The group plays John Coltrane, be-bop, hip hop and Brubeck, and they won a Grammy in the Classical Crossover category for their CD "4+4." The group played a tribute concert to John Coltrane at Keene State College this Fall, and they stopped by our studios to record some tunes and talk about their music.

***This interview originally aired October 10, 2006***

Turtle Island String Quartet has been in the news since they were on our show. Just before Christmas, a missing 127 year old violin was found and returned to the group's violinist, Evan Price. The $50,000 Praga instrument was recovered in a sting in Billings, Montana, not far from the airport where Price had accidentally left it last April.

Click here to listen to Price's interview with NPR's Melissa Block about the ordeal