For New Music, There’s No Quartet Like JACK

11.27.23
Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times

Four men in t-shirts, with distinct personality driven poses. — The JACK Quartet: From left, Jay Campbell, John Pickford Richards, Austin Wulliman and Christopher Otto, Photo: Ulysses Ortega for The New York Times

Its stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.

John Zorn’s ferociously fast thickets of notes and Catherine Lamb’s glacially shifting microtonal drones are both JACK specialties; on Friday, the group will perform Lamb’s 90-minute magnum opus “divisio spiralis” at Yale.

For New Music, There’s No Quartet Like JACK

Its stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.

LoveBabz LoveTalk with Babz Rawls-Ivy: John Pickford Richards from JACK Quartet