Danny Green Trio with Special Guest Arun Luthra at Garage Restaurant & Cafe

Award-winning pianist and composer Danny Green and NYC-based saxophonist extraordinaire Arun Luthra team up for a night of original music and jazz standards. Green has garnered a reputation in the jazz community as an emerging artist whose music sounds simultaneously seasoned and fresh. Called "a musical mind of rare sensitivity and rigor" by CD Hotlist, Green is quickly scaling the ranks of new jazz talent with his brilliant blend of jazz, Brazilian, Latin, and classical elements. Joined by bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm, this virtuosic group is on tour promoting their highly acclaimed album After the Calm. All About Jazz described Green's music "as engaging and intriguing as if penned by a veteran icon of jazz."...

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Award-winning pianist and composer Danny Green and NYC-based saxophonist extraordinaire Arun Luthra team up for a night of original music and jazz standards. Green has garnered a reputation in the jazz community as an emerging artist whose music sounds simultaneously seasoned and fresh. Called "a musical mind of rare sensitivity and rigor" by CD Hotlist, Green is quickly scaling the ranks of new jazz talent with his brilliant blend of jazz, Brazilian, Latin, and classical elements. Joined by bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm, this virtuosic group is on tour promoting their highly acclaimed album After the Calm. All About Jazz described Green's music "as engaging and intriguing as if penned by a veteran icon of jazz."

Arun Luthra has been one of the premiere saxophonists and composers on New York's jazz scene for well over a decade. He is one of the small group of American jazz musicians of Indian heritage who have continued to explore to possibilities of fusing the modern post-bop sound with elements of Indian classical music, as well drawing from a wide variety of modern & classic musical influences to create a vibrant new sound and style. In addition to his career as a performer, composer, and arranger, Luthra is also a faculty member at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York alongside such jazz and world music greats as Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, and Junior Mance, and Bobby Sanabria.

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