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Rudresh Mahanthappa at Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Tompkins Square Park

Courtesy of Christina Jones | Posted on August 17, 2015

Where

When

Sun, August 23, 2015
3:00 pm

Musicians

Rudresh Mahanthappa
saxophone, alto
Joe Lovano
saxophone

About

Few musicians share the ability of alto saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa to embody the expansive possibilities of his music with his culture. What has materialized is a sound that hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music in a fluid and forward-looking form that reflects Mahanthappa’s own experience growing up a second-generation Indian-American. The current manifestations of that trajectory include his latest project Bird Calls, which issued its first release in February 2015. Mahanthappa has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and numerous commissions. He has been named alto saxophonist of the year for three years running in Downbeat Magazine’s International Critics Polls and for five years running by the Jazz Journalists’ Association. In April 2013, he received a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, one of the most prominent arts awards in the world....

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