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Rez Abbasi: Microtones, Fearlessness and the Fifteen-Step Process

by Paul Olson
April 16, 2007

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 ...

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Tom Greenland
February 2, 2007

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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by John Kelman
November 13, 2006

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 ...

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Ian Patterson
November 8, 2006

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 ...

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Rez Abbasi: Bazaar

by Jim Santella
November 7, 2006

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 ...

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Rez Abbasi: Snake Charmer

Read "Snake Charmer" reviewed by Ollie Bivens

by Ollie Bivens
May 14, 2006

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 ...

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Rez Abbasi: Out of Body

Read "Out of Body" reviewed by Germein Linares

by Germein Linares
March 29, 2006

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 ...