Jazz Articles about Arun Ramamurthy

About Arun Ramamurthy

Album Review

Arun Ramamurthy Trio: New Moon

Read "New Moon" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 16, 2024

Violinist Arun Ramamurthy is a first-generation Indian American artist. His ancestral roots in India run deep, and his musical roots there run deep, too. He has embraced American jazz but remains artistically tethered to his parents' homeland. 2014's' Jazz Carnatica (Self Produced) (review here), by his Arun Ramamurthy Trio, showcased his talents for walking the line between the old world and the new. New Moon, coming ten years after Jazz Carnatica, features, again, Sameer Gupta on drums and ...

Album Review

Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy: Nakshatra

Read "Nakshatra" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 2, 2023

“Nakshatra: A Sanscrit word evocative of constellations, stars and interconnectedness." Meera Dugal Two violinists immersed in the sounds of India—that would be Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy. Nakshatra, the duo's debut recording, opens with “Offering." An expansive drone backdrops a deliberative melody. They sound as if they are looking for God--or something similar. They sound, indeed, like the universe after the cosmic blast of the big bang, when things began to coalesce and gravity started to assert itself, ...

Album Review

Arun Ramamurthy Trio: Jazz Carnatica

Read "Jazz Carnatica" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 24, 2014

On his 1967 hit song “Monterey," Eric Burdon, of Eric Burdon and the Animals, sang that Ravi Shankar's music made him cry. This was part of a litany of observational praises of the artists who performed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival: The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, the Birds, The Jefferson Airplane. And from India, Ravi Shankar, an odd and foreign name dropped in with the big time rock stars of the day. By 1967, Beatles ...