Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music's Jazz Presents a concert led by Jazz faculty Arun Luthra that merges the improvisational virtuosity & rhythms of jazz with the rhythmic nuance of Indian classical music.

Join us March 11th for Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project. Konnakol is the Carnatic (South Indian classical) music art of vocalizing rhythms. Arun Luthra is an American jazz saxophonist, konnakol artist, and composer of Indian heritage who has long focused on bringing konnakol and Indian classical music rhythmic concepts into the jazz tradition. Luthra is joined by his long-time rhythm section of Thomson Kneeland on bass and Jordan Perlson on drums, along with one of the brightest new lights in jazz, pianist James Francies, and one of Carnatic music's rising stars, mridangamist & konnakol artist Akshay Anantapadmanabhan....

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The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music's Jazz Presents a concert led by Jazz faculty Arun Luthra that merges the improvisational virtuosity & rhythms of jazz with the rhythmic nuance of Indian classical music.

Join us March 11th for Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project. Konnakol is the Carnatic (South Indian classical) music art of vocalizing rhythms. Arun Luthra is an American jazz saxophonist, konnakol artist, and composer of Indian heritage who has long focused on bringing konnakol and Indian classical music rhythmic concepts into the jazz tradition. Luthra is joined by his long-time rhythm section of Thomson Kneeland on bass and Jordan Perlson on drums, along with one of the brightest new lights in jazz, pianist James Francies, and one of Carnatic music's rising stars, mridangamist & konnakol artist Akshay Anantapadmanabhan.

The Jazz Presents series is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts.

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