Trevor's windswept voice and unusual sidekick, a beat-up cello, take you on a journey into the less-traveled corners of roots and rootlessness. He practically violates the cello as he croons, whispers and screams an imaginative repertoire of instant classics. It's a soaring trip into the unknown for a classically-weaned disco baby with a rock-n-roll soul. From Brooklyn to Berlin, Britain, Brazil, Buenos Aires and back, this runaway visits us with a sexy original sound and songs. It's proof-positive that you don't have to do what they tell you, the customer isn't always right and that "rules" are for people who don't know any better. The whispered message: unload your pride, preconceptions and any idea of the "correct". Give in to the sublime. It glides over a gently pulsing groove that's not quite bass, definitely not guitar - yet possesses a smooth resonance coveted by both.

Trio Globo has crafted a totally original voice in contemporary acoustic jazz. With roots in jazz, classical and sacred music, rhythmic influences derived from travels in six continents, and a combustible spontaneity, cellist Eugene Friesen (Paul Winter Consort), pianist and master harmonica player Howard Levy (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Kenny Loggins, Paquito d'Rivera), and percussionist Glen Velez (Paul Winter Consort, Steve Reich) epitomize the quintessential group for the 21st century. They are true originals re-inventing their instruments in new music both personal and global.

"Eugene, Howard & Glen are magnificent players with distinct musical voices. Together they have a fresh new sound and offer a unique vision of the world of music." — Dave Brubeck

"These are true musical citizens of the world. Amidst a pulsing energy and virtuosity, a refreshing and soaring lyricism stands out as perhaps Trio Globo's signature quality." — Paul Winter

1. Steering by the Stars [5:08]
2. In the Village [4:39]
3. Sapphire [4:28]
4. Miriam's Prophecy [7:29]
5. Ghost in My Heart [4:31]
6. Three Musicians [7:34]
7. Giant Steps [4:19]
8. Promenade [4:41]
9. Tuppim [5:59]
10. Off the Top [6:20]
11. Cross Currents [4:50]
12. Cold Day in January [1:54]
13. This Land is Your Land [4:03]

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The Cello Suites are the most intimate, introspective, and, for many listeners, resistible of all the major Britten scores, and so it takes a special interpretive talent to make manifest their worth, vitality, and genius. For works of genius they surely are: austere in form but rich in thought, in much the manner of Bach's unaccompanied cello suites, which lay the ground rules for this kind of repertory. They were originally written for Rostropovich, who remains their champion of choice. But for reasons best known to himself, Rostropovich has only ever recorded the first two, leaving the field open for younger cellists to set down the complete series. Truls Mork makes his contribution with readings of stature that scrutinize the material and project it with a big, warm resonance. His playing is perhaps less energized than Rostropovich's but more elegiac, and it has all the technical accomplishment you'd expect from someone who by now must rank among the top five cellists in the world. Enormously impressive. —Michael White

In this high flying new recording the GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet looks to draw analogy to the visionary brilliance of Charlie Parker, who took jazz from pop style into art music, with its own continuing aspirations to similarly redefine the foundational parameters of the traditional string quartet form, in a sense coming from the other direction. Grammy-nominated composer David Balakrishnan contributes his newly commissioned work, ""Aeroelasticity: Harmonies Of Impermanence. Since its inception in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined.

The Turtle Island Quartet, known for their innovative recordings, again raises the bar with a project ranging in style from jazz, classical, bluegrass to Indian music. There are classic jazz tunes, a solo cello tour de force, a "cool jazz" tune featuring vocalist Nellie McKay, and many more arrangements offering yet another Turtle Island Quartet masterpiece.

2011 GRAMMY NOMINEE: BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL

Have You Ever Been...? explores and celebrates the legacy of guitar rock icon Jimi Hendrix in grand TIQ style. At the peak of his creative powers in the late 1960s, Jimi Hendrix redefined the potential of not only the guitar but the entire genre of rock. Armed with an unprecedented combination of technical skills and compositional insight, he drew a blueprint that continues to challenge guitarists in particular and musicians of all stripes more than four decades later.

In many ways, Turtle Island Quartet - led by founding violinist David Balakrishnan, a Hendrix fan since his teenage years - has taken Hendrix's cue in the course of their 25-year career by reexamining and reconstructing conventional genres of music and seeking new permutations of style, technique and composition. This ongoing mission of exploration and innovation was most recently exemplified in their Grammy winning 2007 recording, A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane, in which the quartet reinterprets the music of one of the most pivotal figures in the history of jazz by injecting it with their own signature rhythmic innovations and multicultural influences.

Three years later, TIQ - whose current lineup includes Balakrishnan along with co-founder cellist Mark Summer, violinist Mads Tolling and newcomer violist Jeremy Kittel - pushes the edge of their stylistic comfort zone a step further with their latest recording, Have You Ever Been...?, an exploration of the music of Hendrix coupled with a cross genre twist on an old story, Balakrishnan's Tree Of Life. "A stellar recording and achievement," says guitarist Andy Summers, one of the many high-profile heirs to the Hendrix legacy through his work with the Police and beyond, and author of the liner notes to Have You Ever Been...? The genesis of Have You Ever Been...? can be traced back to the two Hendrix concerts at the L.A. Forum - one in 1969 and the other in 1970 - that Balakrishnan attended as a teenager. Within days, he was practicing Hendrix guitar riffs on his violin. Decades later, around the time of the release of A Love Supreme, Balakrishnan visited the Woodstock Museum in Bethel, New York, and watched a video of Hendrix's legendary performances at the three-day rock festival in 1969 that defined a generation.