Jazz Articles about Trilok Gurtu

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Yelena Eckemoff: Scenes From the Dark Ages

by Tyran Grillo
April 29, 2025

Yelena Eckemoff has long composed as though mapping weather rather than terrain, tracing pressure systems of mood and atmosphere while leaving strict pulse to others. Her music often moves with purpose yet refuses the easy certainties of groove, circling rhythm instead of kneeling before it. This has never felt like abstinence or austerity. It feels more like rhetoric. She addresses rhythm, engages with it, but rarely submits for the mere sake of doing so. That is why “Pilgrims," the opening ...

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Trilok Gurtu & Arké String Quartet at Garda Jazz Festival 2024

by Danilo Codazzi
August 19, 2024

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Trilok Gurtu's Crazy Saints: Vak

by Mike Jacobs
November 24, 2023

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Travel: Travel

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 13, 2022

Travel compiles a musical travelogue through eight cities from Istanbul (Turkey) through Oslo (Norway) to Tokyo (Japan), rendered in the acoustic quartet sound of trumpet, piano, bass, and percussion. Composers Marco Vezzoso and Alessandro Collina don't paint strikingly different portraits but reflect each geography through the same sort of quietly intense music, and tuck an almost unbelievable amount of beautiful sound into 41 minutes. Lead and solo voices Vezzoso (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Collina (piano) receive great assistance ...

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Elemental, Erik Escobar, Jasper Van't Hof, Nguyen Le and Trilok Gurtu

by Len Davis
August 15, 2021

We go to Europe with Jasper Van't Hof't and Nguyen Le. The exciting music of Trilok Gurtu and Ranjit Barot, both extraordinary drummers. Jean-Luc Ponty brings African rhythms, and Brazilian bassist Michael Pipoquinha with his album Lua.Playlist Elemental “Dig" from Elemental (Blue Canoel) 00:00 Erik Escobar “Homenaje al Gran Maestro Gonzalo" from Erik Escobar (Self Produced) 06:24 Jasper Van't Hof “Blue Balls" from Blue Corner (ACT Music) 12:46 Nguyen Le “Funk Rai" from Maghreb & Friends (ACT Music) ...

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Trilok Gurtu, Dewa Budjana, Tigran Hamasyan and more

by Len Davis
December 15, 2020

John McLaughlin Sandeep Chowta, Trilok Gurtu, Marcus Klossek Electric Trio and more. Playlist Gavin Harrison-Antoine Fafard “Proto Mundi" from Chemical Reactions (Historical Heresey) 00:00 Scott Jones “Long Night" from Fictional Characters (Self Produced) 07:20 John McLaughlin “Inside Out" from Floating Point (Abstract Logix) 14:36 Sandeep Chowta “Yetto Velli chapter four" from Yetto Velli Diaries (Namma Music) 22:01 Trilok Gurtu “Kathak" from Kathak (Escapade) 29:14 Dewa Budjana “Kmalasana" from Kmalasana (Mehsada Indonesia) 36:32 Tigran Hamasyan “The Grid" from Mockroot ...

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Chamoisic Festival 2018

by Antonio Baiano
August 11, 2018