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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 ...
Rez Abbasi: Bazaar
by Ian Patterson
The nine tunes on Bazaar, Rez Abbasi's fine debut recording for Zoho, have a structural depth which rewards repeated listening, and harmonic and rhythmic qualities which are instantly pleasing to the ear. Abbasi's totally convincing fusion of jazz with southern Asian rhythms and textures is supported by wonderful musicianship throughout. The opening title track ...
Rez Abbasi: Bazaar
by Jim Santella
Guitarist Rez Abbasi interprets nine of his own compositions on this album with a jazz organ trio and guests who explore the connection between East and West through improvised music. His impressions run happy, sad, light, dark, mysterious, open, free and easy. Abbasi retains the mystique of the classic jazz organ/guitar trio while coloring each selection ...
Rez Abbasi: Snake Charmer
by Ollie Bivens
Los Angeles-raised and New York-resident guitarist Rez Abbasi states that “with my music I want to hold onto the the traditional aspects of each form (Indian music and jazz) and unite the best elements of both." The guitarist demonstrates prodigious chops throughout his fourth album, Snake Charmer, an eight-song, sixty-minute journey into jazz-rock fusion, grounded in ...
Rez Abbasi: Out of Body
by Germein Linares
Rez Abbasi's Out of Body finds the prolific guitarist creating nine rich and wildly imaginative scenes, with the ample help of trumpeter Ron Horton (sounding a lot like Dave Douglas here), saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist John Hebert and drummer Bruce Hall. Though Abbasi credits Jim Hall and Pat Metheny as his primary influences, his approach to ...
Snake Charmer
By Rez Abbasi
Label: Earth Sounds
Released: 2005
Track listing: Snake Charmer; Pearl; Tantra; Motherland; Kismet; Rumi; Blood Orange; Thanks for Nothingness.
Rez Abbasi: Snake Charmer
by Jerry D'Souza
Indian music has been integrated into jazz in many ways. It has been subject to the harmony of jazz and has also taken the leading role, with jazz harmony in support. There are been many essayists of this fusion, and Rez Abbasi is one of them. But there is something that sets Abbasi apart: his exquisite ...
Rez Abbasi: Snake Charmer
by Woodrow Wilkins
A native of India who migrated to Los Angeles and later New York, Rez Abbasi marries elements from both sides of the world on Snake Charmer, the guitarist's fourth album as a bandleader. He's accompanied by a small ensemble: Gary Versace on organ, Danny Weiss on drums and tabla, Dave Liebman on soprano saxophone, and Kiran ...
Rez Abbasi in Ottawa, Canada
by John Kelman
Rez Abbasi The Bayou, Ottawa, Canada Saturday, March 19, 2005 New York-based guitarist Rez Abbasi rolled into town on Saturday, March 19, 2005 for a performance at Ottawa's The Bayou, in support of his latest release Snake Charmer. Using the same line-up as the album, with the exception of the ...
