Tag: Rudresh Mahanthappa

Firehouse 12 To Present Mauger October 2nd

Post author By Mike
Post date September 10, 2009

: Rudresh Mahanthappa via last.fm

On Friday, October 2nd, New Haven’s Firehouse 12 will present the third event in its ongoing fifth anniversary Fall Jazz Series, a two-set performance by the all-star trio, Mauger. The group brings together acclaimed saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the “Rising Star Jazz Artist” category in this year’s DownBeat Critics’ Poll, with veteran master musicians, and former Anthony Braxton Quartet members, bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Gerry Hemingway. Mauger will be performing music from its 2008 debut, The Beautiful Enabler (Clean Feed).

Reminder: Michaël Attias Quintet At Firehouse 12 This Friday (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Floriculture Previewed In Hartford Courant Blog (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)

Tags Arts and Entertainment, Firehouse, Gerry Hemingway, Jazz, Music, New Haven, New Haven Connecticut, Rudresh Mahanthappa

Performances

Free Jazz Shows in Chicago

Post author By Mike
Post date August 6, 2009

Chicago Now announces free (in both senses of the word) jazz shows from Rudresh Mahanthappa (tonight) and Fred Anderson (August 20), among others, in Chicago.

Tags Arts, Chicago, Fred Anderson, Instruments, Jazz, Music, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Word Processors

Reviews

Bagatellen Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date March 12, 2009

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From Bagatellen:

Aki Takase & Rudi Mahall – Evergreen

In its formative years, free jazz was, in part, an oppositional movement away from canonized jazz standards. The same tradition-bucking largely holds true today with many players avoiding embrace of the so-called Great American Songbook altogether in favor of other building blocks. The upshot is the recurring accusation that they couldn’t play them […]

Rudresh Mahanthappa – Kinsmen

Rubbing collaborative elbows with one’s influences can be a transformative experience for any artist. Sonny Rollins seized just such opportunity in his friendly donnybrook with Coleman Hawkins for RCA. Mingus almost botched his with Ellington on the sow’s-ear-into-silk-purse Money Jungle session. Flash forward to present day and it’s altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s turn […]

Feb. 11 (thebadplus.typepad.com)

Tags Arts and Entertainment, Duke Ellington, Great American Songbook, Jazz, Music, RCA, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Sonny Rollins

Artist Profile

Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Passage to India

Post author By Mike
Post date February 24, 2009

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Mahanthappa is profiled in the New Yorker.

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, “Kinsmen,” on a small New York-based label (Pi), quickly followed by another no less astonishing, “Apti,” on a small Minnesota-based label (Innova). The breakthrough had been a long time coming, and, curiously enough, it justifies ethnic assumptions that Mahanthappa had for much of his career been working to escape.

Music Review | Indo-Pak Coalition: Sounds Mixed and Matched (nytimes.com)
Feb. 11 (thebadplus.typepad.com)

Tags Alto saxophone, Arts and Entertainment, Innova Recordings, Jazz, Music, New York City, Rudresh Mahanthappa, United States

General

An Indiosyncratic Introduction to Indian Music

Post author By Mike
Post date February 4, 2009

: Image by smlevy24 via Flickr

Rudresh Mahanthappa write a guest post on Destination Out about Indian Music.

Tags Arts and Entertainment, Black Beings, freejazz, George Lewis, Lester Bowie, Music, Rudresh Mahanthappa, United States

Reviews

Free Jazz Blog Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date January 22, 2009

From Free Jazz:

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Flow Trio – Rejuvenation (ESP, 2009) ****

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
David S. Ware – Shakti (AUM Fidelity, 2009) ****½

Monday, January 19, 2009
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition – Apti (Innova, 2008) ****

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Erik Truffaz – Benares (EMI, 2008) ****

Saturday, January 17, 2009
Dennis González & Faruk Z. Bey – Hymn For Tomasz Stanko (Qbico, 2009) *****

Tags AUM Fidelity, David S. Ware, EMI, ESP Guitars, freejazz, Organizations, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Shakti

AMN Picks General

AMN Picks of the Week

Post author By Mike
Post date January 20, 2009

: Cover of Black Beings (1st Album)

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Joseph Jarman / Don Moye – Earth Passage – Density (1981, free jazz)
Saft – Thirteen (2008, experimental)
George Lewis – Shadowgraph (1979, experimental)
Revolutionary Ensemble – 164 = 11TC, etc. (Recorded Live at Moosham Castle) (1977, free jazz)
Lester Bowie – The 5th Power (1978, free jazz)
George Cartwright – Send Help (2008, modern jazz / blues)
Eve Risser / Rafel Mazur – Elan Vital (2008, improv)
Joan Jeanrenaud – Metamorphosis (2002, modern classical)
The Guayaveras – The Guayaveras (2004, experimental)
Rudresh Mahanthappa / Indo-Pak Coalition – Apti (2009, jazz / world)
Chas Smith – Nakadai (2009, electronic)
Frank Lowe – Black Beings (1973, free jazz)
Bar Kokhba – Lucifer: Book of Angels, Volume 10 (2008, jazz / world)

Tags Arts and Entertainment, Black Beings, freejazz, George Cartwright, George Lewis, Lester Bowie, Music, Rudresh Mahanthappa

Podcasts

AMN Podcast: Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition – Apti

Post author By Mike
Post date January 19, 2009

Apti Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition
“Apti” (mp3)
from “Apti”
(Innova Recordings)

DMG Newsletter December 12th, 2008

Post author By Mike
Post date December 14, 2008

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From DMG:

Elliott Sharp! Steve Lantner! Toy Killers! Kuryohkin box! Chadbourne/Blechdom! 2 from Keith Rowe! Rudresh Mahanthappa! Clusone 3!

Boredoms 77 Boa Drummers! 2 from Acid Mother Temple [what..again?!?!?]! Out-Of-Print Thomas Chapin and Briggan Krauss releases! Rare Bird! H P Lovecraft! ..

Tags Briggan Krauss, Keith Rowe, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Thomas Chapin

Reviews

All About Jazz Reviews

Post author By Mike
Post date November 4, 2008

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From All About Jazz:

Fight the Big Bull
Dying Will Be Easy (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

03-Nov-08 RIDD Quartet
Fiction Avalanche (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Troy Collins

03-Nov-08 Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky / Michael Griener
The Salmon (Intakt Records)
Reviewed by Nic Jones

03-Nov-08 Harris Eisenstadt
Guewel (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

02-Nov-08 Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek
Upojenie (Nonesuch Records)
Reviewed by Chris May

02-Nov-08 Pat Metheny w/ Dave Holland & Roy Haynes
Question and Answer (Nonesuch Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman

Tags Clean Feed Records, Nic Jones, Nonesuch Records, Pat Metheny, Rudresh Mahanthappa

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