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Karavika: Sunrise
by Dan McClenaghan
What are the career choices for a classically trained musician? It's not sitting in an orchestra for violinist Trina Basu and cellist Amali Premawardhana. Instead, they chose the path of creating their own Indo-Western chamber ensemble, Karavika, to explore the sounds of Indian ragas and film songs, along with their original composition, “Sunrise," that blends two ...
Steve Lehman Trio: Dialect Fluorescent
by Mark Corroto
Decoding the music of saxophonist Steve Lehman has become a diversion for many a jazz listener (and critic). Sometimes composed with the help of programming software, his harmonies are meshed with mercurial rhythms. When played by his octet, his music gives the impression that it requires a scorecard to keep tabs on its perplexing complexities.
Metta Quintet: Big Drum / Small World
by John Kelman
While the old adage, “those that can, do; those that can't teach" once had meaning, its verisimilitude in a jazz world where artists are increasingly forced to turn to education as a means of steady income would appear to be in jeopardy. But there have always been artists deftly committed to both teaching and doing.
Rudresh Mahanthappa Leads His Quintet For The New York Premiere of Samdhi Suite In Zankel Hall On Saturday, April 21
On Saturday, April 21 at 10:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall, jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa leads his quintet in its first performance at Carnegie Hall as they perform the New York premiere of the Samdhi Suite in its complete form. Samdhi Suite is an electro-acoustic work that combines the complex melodic and rhythmic elements of Carnatic (or ...
Amir ElSaffar: At Two Rivers' Confluence
by Daniel Lehner
There was a point during Amir ElSaffar's study of Arabic music where he almost didn't come back to jazz. He had gone to Iraq to study maqam, the system of melodic modes in traditional Arabic music, in order to bring some of the concepts into jazz. However, the experience proved to be a deepening one for ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi
by AAJ Italy Staff
La prima volta che Rudresh Mahanthappa mise piede su un palcoscenico in Italia fu a Verona, nel maggio del 1999. Faceva parte del quartetto del suo amico Vijay Iyer. Nel loro concerto si intravedevano notevole bagliori e il sassofonista (allora un emerito sconosciuto) si fece notare soprattutto per il suono oggi rinomato. Col tempo Mahanthappa ha ...
NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1: January 6, 2012
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 22012 NYC Winter Jazzfest, Day 1New York, NYJanuary 6, 2012 No one could argue that jazz didn't have a tumultuous 2011. For the better, bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding's Grammy for Best New Artist marked the first time a jazz musician was awarded that honor, and veteran tenor ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi
by Glenn Astarita
Paralleling the recent world-music phenomena, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has become a champion of Indo-Jazz applications. By integrating Indian classical ragas, Mahanthappa fuses a highly progressive jazz base into his undulating and, at times, mesmeric compositions. With touches of jazz-fusion, framed on sprawling improvisational forums, the artist's global approach reaps additional rewarding factors via his signature sound, ...
The Jack DeJohnette Group: Live at Yoshi's 2010
by John Kelman
In the text file accompanying his digital download-only Live at Yoshi's 2010, Jack DeJohnette is quoted, ..."Each piece is different every time we play it." Fans of this veteran drummer--for whom a precise count of all the artists he's worked with (let alone all the recordings he's appeared on) would be an exercise in futility--would have ...
Pat Metheny Headlines the Premier of Reeds & Deeds II
Reeds & Deeds II, the popular jazz radio program broadcast from Emerson College in Boston, premiers a 4th season this Sunday, January 15th at 6pm. The show is continuing on its great success of the past three season. From September to December 2011, Reeds & Deeds II interviewed greats such as Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stanley ...
