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Sax player and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa has long drawn on his dual influences of American jazz and South Indian classical music. Now a hint of electronica is creeping into his new project called Samdhi. He and his band will play live.
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The saxophonist's new repertoire salutes electric funk, South Indian modes and swarming improvisation. It's impressive on record, but it becomes a bug-eyed, mouth-agape experience live. Naturally, you could spot a few contorted faces when he...
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Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has often explored the music of his parents’ country – India – in this work. But he takes a step further into that direction on his new album, Kinsmen, done in collaboration with Kadri Gopalnath, known as the...
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Audio from Rudresh Mahanthappa's Tiny Desk Concert. The saxophonist's new repertoire salutes electric funk, South Indian modes and swarming improvisation. It's impressive on record, but it becomes a bug-eyed, mouth-agape experience when you see...
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Audio from Rudresh Mahanthappa's Tiny Desk Concert. The saxophonist's new repertoire salutes electric funk, South Indian modes and swarming improvisation. It's impressive on record, but it becomes a bug-eyed, mouth-agape experience when you see...
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This week: Jon Pareles reviews "Appeal To Reason" by Rise Against, Ben Ratliff on "Kinsmen" by Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Ben Sisario interviews Artist of the Week, The Citizens Band.
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Resident jazz maestro Fergus Barrowman looks at a superb CD : Making Baby Float, NZ'er Tim Hopkins, and Indian American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa.
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Stories: 1) Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies 2) The Loaves And The Fishes (And The Ducks) 3) Rudresh Mahanthappa: South Asian Jazz 4) Steve And Justin Townes Earle: Life Lessons 5) 'Head Hunters' Found A New Direction In Jazz
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This week’s CD haul included a solo effort from one of the Black Keys, a Scottish disco nugget, and an Indo-Pakistani-American jazz group. Dan Auerbach, "Keep It Hid" (Nonesuch) --picked by John Schaefer Franz Ferdinand, "Tonight" (Domino/Epic)...
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MTV premiered at midnight on August 1st, 1981. The 24-hour channel ushered in the age of the music video - and gave birth to the modern video star. Today, we chart the rise of the network that brought pop stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna...
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John Gilbreath, host of KEXP's Jazz Theater, leads you down some exciting hallways of adventurous new jazz from Seattle and around the world. 1. Tim Berne - The Mallomar Maneuvre 2. Grand Pianoramax - The Showdown 3. Stinkhorn - Tunguska 4. Tim...
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