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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Tom Greenland
February 2, 2007

One of the healthiest trends, it seems, in “our music is a certain restlessness, a dissatisfaction perhaps, with accepting the tradition as is. Rez Abbasi, originally from Pakistan and raised in southern California, now a fifteen-year veteran of the Manhattan scene, is a living embodiment of East-meets-West-meets-East. The music on Bazaar, the guitarist's fifth CD release ...

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Bazaar

By Rez Abbasi

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bazaar; Leather; Thin Elephant; Life Goes; You People Intro; You People; Mid-Life; Hindu-Myth; Destiny Owes You.

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by John Kelman
November 13, 2006

If ever there were an argument for the evolving chemistry of a regularly working group, Bazaar is it. Following the breakthrough Snake Charmer (Earth Sounds, 2005), guitarist Rez Abbasi's core group of organist Gary Versace, drummer Danny Weiss and Indian singer Kiran Ahluwalia has placed more than a few miles under its collective belt, including a ...

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Ian Patterson
November 8, 2006

The nine tunes on Bazaar, Rez Abbasi's fine debut recording for Zoho, have a structural depth which rewards repeated listening, and harmonic and rhythmic qualities which are instantly pleasing to the ear. Abbasi's totally convincing fusion of jazz with southern Asian rhythms and textures is supported by wonderful musicianship throughout. The opening title track ...

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Jim Santella
November 7, 2006

Guitarist Rez Abbasi interprets nine of his own compositions on this album with a jazz organ trio and guests who explore the connection between East and West through improvised music. His impressions run happy, sad, light, dark, mysterious, open, free and easy. Abbasi retains the mystique of the classic jazz organ/guitar trio while coloring each selection ...

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