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Rajesh Mehta: Reconfigurations
by Glenn Astarita
Calcutta, India born trumpeter Rajesh Mehta demonstrates his interest in symbols and numbers, as he shares some common ground with his teacher, the venerable composer/multi-woodwind specialist Anthony Braxton. On, Reconfigurations, Mehta utilizes a vast arsenal of horns consisting of slide trumpet, hybrid trumpet, bass trumpet and extensions. Here, the artist partakes in a set that at times draws similarities to a cooperative, as clarinetist/saxophonist Vlatko Kucan, violinist/violaist Aleksander Kolkowsi, bassist Peter Niklas Wilson and percussionist Ray Kaczynski perform their strategic ...
read moreRajesh Mehta Solos and Duos Featuring Paul Lovens: Orka
by Robert Spencer
Rajesh Mehta was born in India, grew up in the United States, and lived in Holland. He aims to do - or help do - for the trumpet what Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Evan Parker have done for the saxophone. He does it on Orka by eschewing the usual standards of trumpet virtuosity and fashioning a new language and lexicon for the instrument. He also takes up the long-forgotten bass trumpet, and plays a “hybrid trumpet" of his own ...
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