Philadelphia ยป Calendar ยป Rudresh Mahanthappa at Montgomery County Community College
Rudresh Mahanthappa at Montgomery County Community College
Where
Montgomery County Community College
340 Dekalb Pike
Blue Bell, PA
Map
215 641-6518
When
Sat, April 6, 2013
8:00pm
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Musicians
About
Few musicians share the ability of saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa to embody the expansive possibilities of his music with his culture. Time and again, Mahanthappa has eloquently displayed the capacity to absorb numerous styles and genres of music, combine them with the language of modern jazz, and emerge with a new form still recognizably jazz. What has materialized is a sound that hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music in a fluid and forward-looking form that reflects Mahanthappaโs own experience growing up as a second-generation Indian-American. His latest quartet, Gamak, featuring guitarist David โFuzeโ Fiuczynski, bassist Francois Moutin, and drummer Dan Weiss, will issue its first release in January 2013...