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.
""These formerly exotic elements can become quite familiar and entertaining when they’re so successfully and imaginatively integrated…impressive…"

 "Ultra World X-tet deserves wider exposure."
-San Francisco Classical Voice
 “To put it plainly, Ultra World X-tet  is an extraordinary world class ensemble.”
 -Examiner.com
"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, Gary Schwantes, Winnie Wong, Yangqin Zhao
"Magical Adventures of the Monkey King" is a musical journey through fantastic landscapes filled with demons, gods and mystical challenges.  Inspired by "Journey to the West"
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 Ultra World X-tet, Gary Schwantes, Winnie Wong, Yangqin Zhao
Wise Dreams and Fables of the Sky is a musical work inspired by The Odyssey books IX-XII. This is the section of Homer’s epic where Odysseus, as a guest of the Phaeacians, recounts the ten-year period of adventures experienced on his zigzag voyage home following the Trojan War, circa 1200 B.C. 
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