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Kabir Sehgal

Sehgal has won five Grammy & three Latin Grammy Awards as a producer. Some of his recognized productions include “American Dreamers” by John Daversa Big Band featuring DACA Artists; “Presidential Suite” by Ted Nash; and “Cuba: The Conversation Continues” by Arturo O’Farrill. Sehgal has released two albums as an artist with Deepak Chopra & Paul Avgerinos: Home and Meditations on the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. He is also a jazz bassist, composer, and librettist who wrote an opera on the European financial crisis. He co-founded an arts non-profit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.

Angela's Ring: An Opera Revue of the European Debt Crisis

by Richard J Salvucci
March 25, 2021

Kabir Sehgal, Marie Incontrera, et al. Angela's Ring Tiger Turn 2021 Opera, we are told, has long been political, and not just since Verdi and Wagner. What would West End musical theater be without Les Mis? Or drama without Barbara Garson's 1966 play, Macbird? Yes, even economics makes a token appearance in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In fact, Wilde's famous line “Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. The ...

Interview

Kabir Sehgal: Spirited Warrior for Jazz

by Michael Ricci
April 22, 2020

Kabir Sehgal has a history of championing meaningful causes for jazz. His wildly impressive background includes five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards as a producer. He is also the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of fourteen books including Jazzocracy: Jazz, Democracy, and the Creation of a New American Mythology (Better World Books, 2008). He was a navy officer, is a military veteran, was an investment banker, and has collaborated with Deepak Chopra. To top ...

Recording

A New Jazz Opera From Kabir Sehgal And Marie Incontrera, 'Angela's Ring,' Explores The European Debt Crisis

Source: Mouthpiece Music
March 13, 2021

The mere thought of a jazz opera based on the European debt crisis might be enough to send potential listeners running for the exits, but Angela's Ring, a new work co-composed by bassist Kabir Sehgal and pianist Marie Incontrera, is an entertaining and enlightening view of recent history perfectly set to a unique hybrid genre. Uniting the diverse countries of Europe through a common currency was an audacious idea from the start. Many of the countries had been at war ...
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