Articles by Victor Saumarez

Pradeep Ratnayake: Old Bed-Fellows, New Challenges

by Victor Saumarez
August 11, 2006

Pradeep Ratnayake Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, CA July 22, 2006

This was certainly not the first time Indian music and American Jazz have joined forces. The mutual admiration goes back a long way. John Coltrane's interest in Indian music was with the scales and sounds, which he felt elicited special kinds of emotions. John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek and Zakir Hussain's collaboration bore fruit in the form of Making Music (ECM, 1987, a very ...

DjangoFest 2006: Day 3

by Victor Saumarez
May 20, 2006

John Jorgenson & Angelo Debarre DjangoFest 2006 Laguna Beach, CA March 10, 2006

Celebrations of the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt, continued this year in California at Laguna Beach, March 9-12 as part of DjangoFest 2006. Packed with workshops, jam sessions, and concerts, this small town on the coast of Southern California offers a convivial outpost for a wayward art form.

Guitarist John Jorgenson, a California native now living in Nashville, was a ...