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{{Infobox musical artist | name = The Section Quartet | background = classical_ensemble | origin = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | genre = {{flatlist|*[[Classical music|Classical]] *[[Pop music|Pop]] *[[Rock music|Rock]] }} | years_active = {{start date|1998}}–present | label = [[Vitamin Records|Viamin]], [[Decca Records|Decca]] | website = {{Official URL}} | current_members = * Eric Gorfain * Daphne Chen * Leah Katz * Richard Dodd | past_members = }}
'''The Section Quartet''' is a [[string quartet]] founded by Eric Gorfain that performs cover versions of rock songs.<ref name="PM">{{cite web |last1=Newton |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Section Quartet: Fuzzbox |url=https://www.popmatters.com/the-section-quartet-fuzzbox-2496214975.html |website=pop matters |date=12 September 2007}}</ref>
==History== [[Eric Gorfain]] founded the quartet after working for the 1996 tour of [[Robert Plant]] and [[Jimmy Page]]. He said the quartet fulfilled his desire to play lead guitar in a rock band. The debut album, ''No Electricity Required'' (2004), contained Gorfain's [[arrangement]] of "[[Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes song)|Dazed and Confused]]" by Led Zeppelin in addition to cover versions of songs by [[Coldplay]], [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]], [[Iron Maiden]], and [[Queens of the Stone Age]].<ref name="Hegarty">{{cite book|author=Dan Hagerty|title=Buried Treasure Volume 2: Overlooked, Forgetten and Uncrowned Albums|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1e0HDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT223|accessdate=31 July 2017|date=20 September 2016|publisher=Liberties Press|isbn=978-1-910742-74-7|pages=223–}}</ref>
The Section Quartet consists of Gorfain on violin, Daphne Chen on violin, Richard Dodd on cello, and Leah Katz on viola. They have performed on soundtracks and pop music albums, such as ''[[Stripped (Christina Aguilera album)|Stripped]]'' ([[RCA Records|RCA]], 2002) by [[Christina Aguilera]]. Their performance on "[[Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song)|Beautiful]]" impressed the songwriter, [[Linda Perry]]. She produced the quartet's album ''Fuzzbox'' (2007) for [[Decca Records]], which reached number 14 on the [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] Classical Crossover Chart.<ref name="Mason">{{cite web|last1=Mason|first1=Stewart|title=Section Quartet Biography |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/section-quartet-mn0000803667/biography|website=AllMusic|accessdate=24 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=GG|title=THE SECTION QUARTET |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2007/BB-2007-09-01.pdf#page=55 |work=[[Billboard (magazine)]] |date=1 September 2007 |page=55}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=TOP CLASSICAL CROSSOVER |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2007/BB-2007-09-29.pdf#page=63 |access-date=29 December 2025 |work=[[Billboard (magazine)]] |date=29 September 2007 |page=69}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=David |title=The Section Quartet |url=https://variety.com/2007/music/reviews/the-section-quartet-1200557091/ |work=Variety |date=17 August 2007}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''No Electricity Required'' (2004) * ''Lizards Like Us'' (2006) * ''Fuzzbox'' ([[Decca Records|Decca]], 2007)
===As guest=== * 1993: ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas (soundtrack)|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', [[Danny Elfman]] * 2003: ''[[Thirteenth Step|The Nurse Who Loved Me]]'', [[A Perfect Circle]] * 2004: ''[[A Boot and a Shoe]]'', [[Sam Phillips (musician)|Sam Phillips]] * 2004: ''[[Into the Now]]'', [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] * 2007: ''[[Graduation (album)|Graduation]]'', [[Kanye West]] * 2007: ''[[Reba: Duets]]'', [[Reba McEntire]] * 2007: ''[[Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon]]'', [[Devendra Banhart]] * 2007: ''[[Southland Tales]]'' * 2007: ''[[Strange Weirdos]]'', [[Loudon Wainwright III]] * 2008: ''[[Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits]]'', [[Christina Aguilera]] * 2008: ''[[Recovery (Loudon Wainwright album)|Recovery]]'', Loudon Wainwright III<ref name="AM credits">{{cite web|title=Section Quartet {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/section-quartet-mn0000803667/credits|website=AllMusic|accessdate=25 July 2017}}</ref> * 2010: ''[[Bionic (Christina Aguilera album)|Bionic]]'', [[Christina Aguilera]] * 2010: ''[[Burlesque (soundtrack)|Burlesque]]'' * 2014: ''[[Goddess (Banks album)|Goddess]]'', [[Banks (singer)|Banks]] * 2015: ''[[Coming Forth by Day (Cassandra Wilson album)|Coming Forth by Day]]'', [[Cassandra Wilson]] * 2016: ''[[The Altar]]'', Banks * 2017: ''[[Revival (Eminem album)|Revival]]'', [[Eminem]] * 2017: ''[[Villains (Queens of the Stone Age album)|Villains]]'', [[Queens of the Stone Age]]
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