Results for "Apti"

Album

Apti

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Looking out, Looking In; Apti; Vandanaa Trayee; Adana; Palika Market; Iit; Baladhi; You Talk Too Much.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti

by Karl Ackermann
May 1, 2010

Jazz has been a well-established genre in India since the 1940s. American talent played top venues in large cities like Bombay in the '50s, and the cultures interrelated within India's natural jazz evolution from its early stages. Traditional Indian music uses single notes rather than the intricate chords typical in western jazz, so when saxophonist Rudresh ...

Album

Apti

By Rudresh Mahanthappa

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Looking Out, Looking In; Apti; Vandanaa Trayee; Adana; Palika Market; IIT; Baladhi; You Talk Too Much.

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Apti

July 13, 2009

Album: Apti
By Rudresh Mahanthappa
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2009
Duration: 06:51

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Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti

by Dan McClenaghan
May 31, 2009

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa slipped onto the jazz scene right around the turn of the millennium via sideman work with pianist Vijay Iyer, on Architexture (Asian Improv Records, 1998) and the breakout Panoptic Modes (Red Giant Records, 2002). He continues to team with Iyer in an increasingly excellent evolution of sound on Reimagining (Savoy Jazz, 2005), ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti

by Troy Collins
May 29, 2009

The story has been told before. While still in college, Indian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa was given a CD of Kadri Gopalnath's Saxophone Indian Style as a joke by his older brother. But Mahanthappa was impressed by Gopalnath's ability to translate the microtonal intricacies of South Indian Carnatic music to the saxophone, which eventually resulted in their ...