Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project at The Plaza Bistro

About

Arun Luthra has long been one of the premiere saxophonists and composers on New York’s jazz scene. He is one of a 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 - specifically "konnakol", the South Indian classical music discipline of reciting rhythms. Luthra also draws from a wide variety of modern and 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, and has shared the stage and recorded with many of the greatest jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and pop artists in the world, including Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Mike Stern, Kenny Garrett, Dennis Irwin, Joe Chambers, Charli Persip, Bobby Porcelli, Portinho, Zé Renato, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Bobby Short, Lew Soloff, and Bernard Purdie.