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Enhanced Performance
Album: Codebook
By Rudresh Mahanthappa
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2006
Duration: 6:09
Pegging Some Heartstrings: The Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet in New Haven
by Lyn Horton
Composition and improvisation can go hand in hand. Sometimes, the two approaches to musical creation are indistinguishable, in which case we can view the marriage of the two as a good one. Such a manifestation unfolded before an intimate audience at Firehouse 12, in New Haven, Connecticut on May 18, 2007, with the Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet. ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook
by AAJ Italy Staff
Fra i nomi emergenti della scena jazzistica newyorchese c'è quello di Rudresh Mahanthappa, contraltista di origine indiana. Per scrivere le composizioni di Codebook, il suo quinto CD da leader (il primo, Yatra, risale al 1996), egli si è ispirato al fascino dei simboli della crittografia, o meglio ha tentato di tradurre in melodia e ritmo i ...
Codebook
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Decider; Refresh; Enhanced Performance; Further and in Between; Play It Again Sam; Frontburner; D (Dee Dee); Wait It Through; My Sweetest.
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook
by John Kelman
Musicians who lean toward a cerebral approach face two challenges: avoiding contrivance, and ensuring there's enough emotional content to resonate with listeners on an instinctive level. Altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa has been performing an uncanny balancing act in that regard since he relocated to New York in the late '90s. He's been making as much of a ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook
by Jeff Stockton
Ever since Charlie Parker redefined the instrument, speed has been the stock and trade of the alto saxophonist. Find some sidemen who can keep up with you and you've got something. On Codebook, Rudresh Mahanthappa's quartet is rounded out by bassist François Moutin, drummer Dan Weiss and pianist Vijay Iyer, a constant compadre. Is Iyer a ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook
by Troy Collins
Rudresh Mahanthappa's previous quartet album, Mother Tongue (Pi, 2004), explored the transposition of Indian dialects into the structural frameworks of acoustic jazz. Codebook builds on the alto saxophonist's previous work by incorporating aspects of cryptography into his new compositions. He's joined by his regular foil, pianist Vijay Iyer, as well as his usual quartet bassist, François ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa
by Tom Greenland
Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa seems to have his fingers in quite a few pies lately: his quartet, featuring Vijay Iyer on piano, François Moutin on bass and Dan Weiss on drums, will be shortly releasing Code Book (Pi); Raw Materials, his duo with Iyer, also has an upcoming CD (Savoy); MSG, a trio with bassist Ronan ...
Mother Tongue
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Preserver; English; Kannada; Gujarati; Telugu; Circus; Konkani; Tamil; Malayalam; Change of Perspective
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Mother Tongue
by Ollie Bivens
The latest album by India-born saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa explores the connection between language and music, ancestry and contemporary American life. Continually asked by Americans, “Do you speak Indian?" or “Do you speak Hindu?", Mahanthappa has answered by basing the recording on the sounds of speech. With a population of one billion people and numerous ethnic groups, ...
