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Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet
Rudresh's
flagship ensemble with Vijay
Iyer on piano, François
Moutin on bass, and Dan Weiss on drums. Album releases include Black Water (Red Giant, 2002), Mother
Tongue (Pi Recordings, 2004), and Codebook (Pi Recordings, 2006) on Pi Recordings in September 2006.
US and European tours booked through 2009.
Dakshina Ensemble
Rudresh and Carnatic saxophone legend Kadri Goplanath received a Rockefeller grant to compose new work for this septet which premiered in May 2005 at the Asia Society in New York City and toured the US in Fall 2007.
Their groundbreaking CD, "Kinsmen", is available now on Pi Recordings.
Listen to tracks and watch videos on the Dakshina myspace page.
Check out these videos from the last tour! Indo-Pak Coalition Trio with
Rez Abbasi on sitar-guitar
and Dan Weiss on tabla. This ensemble debuted at Joe's Pub in January 2006. Listen to tracks from the album here Mauger A new collective trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Gerry Hemingway Listen to tracks from the album here. Raw
Materials This decade-long collaboration
with pianist Vijay Iyer
has toured the world over including performances at the North
Sea Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival, and Jazz Festival Ljubljana to name a few. Raw Materials released their first CD on Savoy in May 2006. Here is a video from a show at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival: MSG This relatively new trio of Rudresh, bassist Ronan Guilfoyle, and drummer Chander Sardjoe debuted in Ireleand in August 2005 and also performed at the Bali Jazz Festval the following November. A European tour in September 2006 culminated in a studio recording which will be available in 2009.
Here's video from a recent gig in Dublin: Sound files from the Kilkenny Arts Festival, August 2005: Dual
Indentity Dual
Identity refers to groups co-led by Rudresh and alto saxophonist Steve
Lehman. Their quintet debuted in early 2004 and their duo project
debuted in Fall 2004. Watch for more quintet shows and a CD release in 2009.
Samdhi Rudresh's new electric project, a direct of result of his Guggenheim Fellowship work, features guitarist David Gilmore, bassist Rich Brown, drummer Damion Reid, and mridangist Anand Ananthakrishnan. Fall 2009 tour and CD release planned.
Past
Projects Mingus-Mahanthappa
Group This ensemble
was one Carnegie Hall's musical ambassadors to New York City performing via the Neighborhood Concert Series. With bassist Kevin Mingus (grandson of legendary bassist Charles Mingus), this group
has performed in duo and trio formats for several years. Manodharma
Trio This trio
with mridangam master Trichy
Sankaran and pianist Vijay
Iyer received a Rockefeller MAP grant to compose new work in 2001
which was presented by the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Saturn
Returns Electric
quintet with James Hurt on keyboards, David
Gilmore on guitar, François
Moutin on electric bass, and Derrek Philips on drums. Click here
to listen to an mp3.
CD "Apti" released on Innova in November 2008.
Their CD "The Beautiful Enabler" is now available on Clean Feed.
European tour coming in March 2009.
Watch for US and European tours in 2009.
Visit the Raw Materials myspace page to hear tracks from the album.
Enhanced Performance
Traditional by Ronan Guilfoyle
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