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Carl Clements

Carl Clements (saxophones and Indian flute) received a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the City University of New York Graduate Center, an MFA in Jazz Performance from the California Institute of the Arts, and a BM in Jazz Composition and Arranging from the Berklee College of Music. He has played saxophone for over forty years, and has been studying North Indian classical music on the bansuri (North Indian bamboo flute) since 1989. He has performed extensively in a wide range of styles, and is featured on numerous recordings including a CD of his original compositions for jazz quartet entitled Forth and Back, three CDs with guitarist Kevin Kastning, four CDs with the eclectic jazz group Crosscurrent, and many others

Home Is Here

By Felipe Salles

Label: Tapestry Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Re-Invention; Meridian; Polymorphous; Wanderlust; Two Worlds Together; World Citizen; The Promise of Happiness; Storytelling.

Meridian 63

December 6, 2023

Album: Home Is Here
By Felipe Salles
Label: Tapestry Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 7:54

Kevin Kastning’s Extended Guitars

by Mark Sullivan
September 28, 2018

American fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Kevin Kastning has increasingly dedicated himself to two musical areas: improvisation and extending the range of the acoustic guitar. He has created a number of new instruments in this quest, including the 36-string Double Contraguitar, 30-string Contra-Alto guitar and 17-string Hybrid Extended Classical guitar he has used on recent recordings. In addition ...

Matt Hooke's Best Releases of 2017

by Matt Hooke
January 7, 2018

2017 marked the first year that I wrote for All About Jazz, and I got to experience some phenomenal music. It was a diverse year in jazz, international artists like Tony Allen and Seckou Keita brought unique perspectives to jazz. Other artists like Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau, and Dayme Arocena, released some of their best work ...

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 ...

Watercolor Sky

By Carl Clements

Label: Greydisc
Released: 2014

Nowhere, Now Here

By Carl Clements

Label: Greydisc
Released: 2013

Alex Snydman: Fortunate Action

by Edward Blanco
July 8, 2013

Guitarist-turned-drummer Alex Snydman left behind an established East Coast presence in the Massachusetts and New York area jazz scenes for graduate studies at The California Institute of the Arts and, while in Los Angeles, has produced his very first album as leader with the highly audacious Fortunate Action. A student of Joe La Barbera, Bob Gullotti ...

Dreaming As I Knew

By Carl Clements

Label: Greydisc
Released: 2012