Saturday April 21, 2010
10pm
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
Ranked #7 in Jazz Albums of 2011, Denver Post
Ranked #8 in the 2011 Rhapsody.com Jazz Critics Poll
Ranked #9 in Jazz Albums of 2011, Philadelphia Inquirer
Posts Tagged ‘rudresh mahanthappa’
Widespread Acclaim for Rudresh Mahanthappa’s “Samdhi” & Upcoming Carnegie Hall Debut
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Flushing Town Hall Presents Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition With Rez Abbasi & Dan Weiss
Thursday, December 1st, 2011Saturday, December 3rd 2011, 8PM
(from left to right: Rez Abbasi, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Dan Weiss)
Photo credit: Jordan Hemingway
The Indo-Pak Coalition, led by critically-acclaimed Indian-American saxophonist and Guggenheim fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa, with Pakistani-American guitar virtuoso Rez Abbasi and rising tabla star Dan Weiss, synthesizes jazz with the astutely improvised musical forms of South Asia, transcending any preconception of Indo-jazz fusion. This ambitious trio will be appearing on December 3rd at the Flushing Town Hall.
Rudresh Mahanthappa & ACT Music Announce “Samdhi”
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Featuring David Gilmore (electric guitar), Rich Brown (electric bass), Damion Reid (drums), and “Anand” Anantha Krishnan (mridangam & kanjira)
Out September 27
For a few fleeting moments in every 24-hour cycle, as day cedes way to night, a curtain seems to lift on the banal everyday to give those lucky enough to pause and notice it a brief glimpse of the otherworldly. Filmmakers refer to it as “magic hour,” those frustratingly fleeting seconds when their cameras can capture that uncanny golden glow.
Fully Altered Media Client Release Schedule **Fall 2010**
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010August
Vijay Iyer – Solo (ACT Music) – August 31
Iyer’s 1st solo piano recording
September
Blue Cranes - Observatories (self-released) – Sept. 14
Portland, OR chamber jazz group w/ Reed Wallsmith (saxes), Sly Pig (saxes), Rebecca Sanborn (keyboards), Keith Brush (bass), Ji Tanzer (drums)
Eddie Gomez & Cesarius Alvim – Forever (Plus Loin Music) – Sept. 14
Bass/Piano Duo w/ Eddie Gomez (bass), Cesarius Alvim (piano)
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green – Apex (Pi Recordings) – Sept. 28
w/ Mahanthappa (alto sax), Bunky Green (alto sax), Jack DeJohnette (drums on half), Jason Moran (piano), Francois Moutin (bass), Damion Reid (drums on half)
New Rez Abbasi Disc, “Things to Come” out August 25 on Sunnyside
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
"Things to Come" cover
Pakistani-American Guitarist Rez Abbasi
Releases Things to Come,
August 25th on Sunnyside Records
Album Features Stunning Composition and Improvisation
From Culturally Diverse Top New York Musicians
(Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Johannes Weidenmueller, Dan Weiss
+ Special Guests Kiran Ahluwalia and Mike Block)
Rudresh Mahanthappa in The New Yorker
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Photograph by Ethan Levitas
Gary Giddins wrote about Rudresh Mahanthappa in a recent New Yorker piece.
Jazz musicians have two fundamental goals: creating music that keeps listeners wondering what’s next, and finding a novel context within which to explore old truths. (There are no new truths.) Whenever a musician achieves this synthesis, usually after years of apprenticeship and exploration, a rumble echoes through the jazz world. Such a rumble was heard last fall, when the thirty-seven-year-old alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa released an astonishing album . . .
