All About Jazz — By Pico One of the bigger regrets I've had with this site was missing the opportunity to review Rudresh Mahanthappa's Kinsmen when it was released two years ago, because this saxman of Indian descent did such a brilliant job in combining traditional... more info

Guardian Music — (Mack Avenue)Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez has worked with Dizzy Gillespie's last band and Wayne Shorter's remarkable quartet. This structurally ambitious session, with voices and assorted classical instrumentation, at times sounds puzzled by its ... more info

Guardian Music — (Pi)Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is best known as pianist Vijay Iyer's regular partner, but he's paired here with an alto sax inspiration from his student years: the little-known (and now 75-year-old) former Charles Mingus sideman and eminent jazz... more info

Guardian Music — (Pi)Remarkably, this is American saxophonist Steve Coleman's first release in four years – and his first for an American company in nine, as he joins the label that's also home to such contemporary innovators as Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa and ... more info

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Rudresh Mahanthappa's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Rudresh MahanthappaGuggenheim fellow and 2009 Downbeat International Critics Poll Winner (a€oeRising Star-Jazz Artista€ and a€oeRising Star... more info

All About Jazz — Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green are alto saxophonists born 36 years apart. The younger, Mr. Mahanthappa, matured in the 1990s in New York after studying at Berklee College of Music. Mr. Green played in clubs as a teenager in Milwaukee in the earl... more info

Detroit Free Press — The Sounds of Motown: 2 & 8 p.m. April 8. Colosseum at Caesars Windsor, $15. Danilo Perez & Friends: featuring David Sanchez, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Amir Elsaffar, Jamey Haddad, Ben Street and Adam Cruz, 8 p.m. April 8. Hill Auditorium, $10-$50. Patty ... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonThe Indian-Americans Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa might only have crossed the radar of European jazz audiences in recent years, but the pianist and saxophonist have been bonding since the mid-90s. The empathy is so strong it is so... more info

Guardian Music — His determination to open British ears to new ideas meant this celebration went beyond narrow definitions of musical genreThis week, the Asian-American jazz virtuosos Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa will mix south Indian rhythmic complexities with... more info

All About Jazz — Guitarist Rez Abbasi continues his rhythmic and harmonic explorations on Things To Come (Sunnyside, 2009). Hes joined on this album by pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Johannes Weidenmeuller, drummer Dan Weiss, cellist Mik... more info