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Evan Zeppo Price

Evan Zeppo Price is a violinist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator whose work links Hot Club of San Francisco, chamber jazz, and orchestra.

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Career Overview

About Evan Zeppo Price

Price’s official biography traces violin and fiddle work through Cleveland Institute of Music and Berklee and documents faculty roles at Wellesley, California Jazz Conservatory, and UC Berkeley. It identifies San Rafael as his Bay Area home.[1]

The biography separates ten years with Turtle Island Quartet from membership in Hot Club of San Francisco beginning in 1998. It also documents composition and arranging for chamber ensembles, choruses, and orchestras, including a 2016 jazz-violin concerto and the solo album Dialogues.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Violinist, composer, arranger, and ensemble member

Hot Club of San Francisco

Price’s biography dates his membership in the Bay Area ensemble to 1998 and documents seven recordings with the group.[1]

Violinist, composer, arranger, and ensemble member

Turtle Island Quartet

A ten-year tenure included more than five hundred performances and five recorded projects.[1]

Leader, violinist, composer, and arranger

Solo and orchestral projects

Price’s concerto and Dialogues place improvising violin in orchestral, chamber, and solo-led settings.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2005

Four + 4

Turtle Island Quartet violinist and arranger

The quartet recording joins improvising strings with a guest string quartet during Price’s tenure.[1][3]

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2007

A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane

Turtle Island Quartet violinist and arranger

The project reframes Coltrane repertory for the quartet’s improvising string instrumentation.[1][3]

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2017 · Azica Records

Dialogues

Leader, violinist, composer, and arranger

Price’s solo leader album gathers original chamber writing and arranged jazz-violin repertory.[1][2]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official media gallery

Hear Dialogues selections and watch jazz-violin, chamber, and orchestral performances.

Official video playlist

Watch a performance playlist linked directly from Price’s artist site.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Mon, Sep 28, 8:00 PM

Le Jazz Hot Quartet Plays Every 2nd & 4th Monday At Local Edtion (sf,ca) at Local Edition

Local Edition · San Francisco

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Mon, Oct 12, 8:00 PM

Le Jazz Hot Quartet Plays Every 2nd & 4th Monday At Local Edtion (sf,ca) at Local Edition

Local Edition · San Francisco

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, ensembles, teaching, and commissions

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  2. [2] Official audio and video gallery

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  3. [3] Official recording catalog

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