Rudresh Mahanthappa: Samdhi – review

(ACT)Indian-American saxophonist Mahanthappa regularly focuses on his cultural connections with Carnatic music while maintaining a presence at the cutting edge of contemporary jazz and fusion. Samdhi is one of his most idiomatically open sessions, a mix of jazz grooves, Indian music, funk and electronics featuring former M-Base guitarist Dave Gilmore and an explosive east-west percussion partnership of fusion drummer Damion Reid and south Indian mridangam player Anand Anantha Krishnan. Mahanthap...

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