Jazz Articles about Dhruv

Dhruv: Voyage

by Ian Patterson
July 17, 2015

It's been a few years since Berklee-trained guitarist/composer Dhruv Ghanekar last crossed AAJ's radar. That was at the Borneo Jazz Festival 2011, where his quartet powered through a jazz-fusion set of the highest order. For his second recording as leader the Mumbai guitarist--who has performed with sarangi maestro Sultan Khan, Zakir Hussain and Scott Kinsey--shows off his hefty compositional strengths. With Etienne Mbappe, Trilok Gurtu, Ranjit Barot and Karim Ziad heading an all-star cast, Dhruv explores the nexus of Indian ...