New Album Release!
Coming April 2019

  “To put it plainly, Ultra World X-Tet  is an extraordinary world class ensemble.”
 -Examiner.com

​"Ultra World X-Tet deserves wider exposure."
-San Francisco Classical Voice
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""These formerly exotic elements can become quite familiar and entertaining when they’re so successfully and imaginatively integrated…impressive…"

"I was particularly impressed by the chemistry between Schwantes on tenor and Wong  on her  Western-tuned guzheng in 'Lonely Woman...Schwantes and Wong threw an entirely new light on that harmonic rhetoric, endowing this iconic piece of jazz history with a fresh sonorous character."
-San Francisco Classical Voice

Ultra World X-Tet combines jazz, world, experimental and contemporary concert styles in a pioneering fusion of East and West. The group instrumentation includes saxophone, bamboo flute,  guzheng (Chinese zither), yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer) bass, drumset, percussion and harmonium. Ultra World X-Tet has released a CD “Moon and Legend” (available at CD Baby ,  iTunes  and other outlets), and a live concert DVD “Night Market,"  available here.