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Jazz Education in New York City
The New York Jazz Workshop announces the creation of a new structure to provide affordable Jazz education in New York City. Starting with 3 jazz workshops in August 2009, the New York Jazz Workshop will offer ongoing classes for adults and young adults starting in September. The New York Jazz Workshop faculty is comprised of many ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti
by Dan McClenaghan
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), ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Apti
by Troy Collins
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 ...
Rez Abbasi's Bazaar Tours the West Coast
In recent years, guitarist Rez Abbasi has gained notoriety through performances with Dave Douglas, Greg Osby, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kiran Ahluwalia and many others. His two latest recordings, Snake Charmer (2005) and Bazaar (2006-07) have garnered tremendous attention by critics, musicians, festival producers and radio alike. “A totally successful blend of two complex musical genres, namely jazz ...
Rez Abbasi: Microtones, Fearlessness and the Fifteen-Step Process
by Paul Olson
India-born and California-raised, guitarist/composer Rez Abbasi--a resident of New York City for over a decade now--has been perfecting his own unique East-meets-West musical hybrid of Indian and jazz musics for some time. With the releases of Snake Charmer (Earth Sounds, 2005) and Bazaar (Zoho Music, 2006), he's perfected his formula, in part because his core group ...
Rez Abbasi: Bazaar
by Tom Greenland
One of the healthiest trends, it seems, in “our music is a certain restlessness, a dissatisfaction perhaps, with accepting the tradition as is. Rez Abbasi, originally from Pakistan and raised in southern California, now a fifteen-year veteran of the Manhattan scene, is a living embodiment of East-meets-West-meets-East. The music on Bazaar, the guitarist's fifth CD release ...
Bazaar
By Rez Abbasi
Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Bazaar; Leather; Thin Elephant; Life Goes; You People Intro; You People; Mid-Life;
Hindu-Myth; Destiny Owes You.
Out of Body
By Rez Abbasi
Label: Reztone
Released: 2006
Track listing: To Your Perfection; Out of Body; Winner's Circle; Phosphor
Colors/Ganges; Gold Rush; Half the Battle; Smile at Darkness; Dark Bones.
Snake Charmer
By Rez Abbasi
Label: Earth Sounds
Released: 2006
Track listing: Snake Charmer; Pearl; Tantra; Motherland; Kismet; Rumi; Blood
Orange; Thanks for Nothingness.
Rez Abbasi: Bazaar
by John Kelman
If ever there were an argument for the evolving chemistry of a regularly working group, Bazaar is it. Following the breakthrough Snake Charmer (Earth Sounds, 2005), guitarist Rez Abbasi's core group of organist Gary Versace, drummer Danny Weiss and Indian singer Kiran Ahluwalia has placed more than a few miles under its collective belt, including a ...
