Kinsmen: Indian American Jazz
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Uploaded by asiasociety on Aug 30, 2007
A new kind of jazz featuring Indian American Rudresh Mahanthappa and another master of the alto sax: Kadri Gopalnath, living legend of South Indian Carnatic music. Together their fiercely innovative work is a cross-cultural, intergenerational collaborative suite of traditional and contemporary influences, commissioned by the Asia Society. The two are joined by their co-led Dakshina Ensemble. Interview conducted by Rachel Cooper, Asia Society Director of Cultural Programs.
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Carnatic music and jazz music go hand in hand due to space in their music and how it encourages improvisation/free-style.
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crazy-weather report owns u
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I love the album Kinsmen
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Jazz a totally AMERICAN construct!
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it looks like its made in america, but was decorated to look more indian. i think.
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Carnatic music (Sanskrit: Karnāṭaka saṃgītaṃ) is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
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Same thing dude. There are variations in spelling because they come from tamil alphabet.
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Jazz-Indian fusions of the past haven't really taken in more than instrumentation and a few musical figures from Indian music. Mahanthappa's hybrid music involves much more use of complex material from the Carnatic tradition.
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I think he avoids the term "fusion" because of all the shitty music that resulted in the heyday of jazz-rock fusion ie Yellowjackets, weather report, all that sucky GRP label crap. Most people think of that when they hear the word fusion and I can totally understand why he'd avoid the term.
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He's a huge legend of Carnatic music - maybe you just don't know too much about the genre.
topologyrob 3 years ago 5
He's being very modest about we he has accomplished. The man broke free of western musical constraints. Something Coltrane and Ornette Coleman never succeeded in, check out the New Yorker piece on him entitled "A Passage to India" really fascinating stuff.
Scanlanian 2 years ago