Find Rudresh Mahanthappa bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - An innovative American saxophonist of South. Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa arrived in New York City in 1997 from Boulder, Colorado, and immediately began to integrate himself into the jazz scene as a sideman. His distinctive sound is matched only by his ambitious manner of melding the modernist jazz tradition with South Indian music and electronic sounds - all depending on which ensemble he heads. Saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition set the jazz world afire with their 2008 offering Apti on Innova. The bandleader has made a career of blurring the lines between his Indian subcontinent roots and modern creative jazz, but the Indo-Pak Coalition, with ace guitarist Rez Abbasi and tabla master Dan Weiss, have done it with more finesse, energy, and imagination.
Raw Materials is a studio album by American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer recorded with trumpeter Rudresh Mahanthappa. The album was released on May 23, 2006 via Savoy Jazz label.[3]
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David R. Adler of JazzTimes stated 'The two cover plenty of ground but aren’t at all longwinded. Somehow their impeccable precision enhances rather than limits their improvisational freedom. Their challenging rhythmic syntax, well documented on their respective quartet discs, takes on a greater immediacy in the duo context'.[4]
Jonathan Widran of Allmusic wrote 'For the first time, they distill their otherworldly, closely entwined musical language into a 13-track recording on Raw Materials -- the first 12 of which are from the suite 'Sangha: Collaborative Fables,' which was commissioned by the Jazz Gallery with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund.. They're a brilliantly talented, visionary but unusual pair whose debut will appeal mostly to jazz and classical fans with open minds'.
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Pi Recordings
Panoptic Modes is the third studio album led by American pianist Vijay Iyer originally released on the Red Giant label in 2001 and re-released on Pi Recordings in 2010.[1]
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The Allmusic review by David R. Adler stated, 'His harmonic and formal concepts are as challenging as ever, yet his exceedingly difficult writing is rendered oddly accessible by the unperturbed facility of his band'.[2] Writing for All About Jazz, Jim Santella said, 'Vijay Iyer's music contains the adventurousness and dramatic tension that you'd expect from avant-garde jazz; as well as a light, rhythmic swing, for those of us who live in the mainstream. Dragonology board game rules. His third album is accessible to one and all. They're his originals, and they're interpreted by a stellar quartet'.[3]
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All compositions by Vijay Iyer
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Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls
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