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[kwawr-tet] / kwɔrˈtɛt /




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It was during an engagement at Birdland, where the quartet was first on the bill, that Alice McLeod had the opportunity to experience the John Coltrane Quartet up close.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

After leaving office, he served as Middle East envoy for the Quartet of international powers - the United Nations, European Union, US and Russia - from 2007 to 2015.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

Blair spent years focused on the Israeli-Palestinian issue as representative of the "Middle East Quartet" -- the United Nations, European Union, United States and Russia -- after leaving Downing Street in 2007.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

The Modern Jazz Quartet remade “Summertime” as elegant chamber music, weaving piano and vibraphone in transparent counterpoint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The 14th Quartet might, for him, be a communication announcing, “Beethoven here,” answered, after passage through an undersea of time and submerged currents of human thought, by another long signal a century later, “Bartok here.”

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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