Trilok Gurtu and Tigran Hamasyan – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt's not often Trilok Gurtu finds himself upstaged. For more than three decades, the Mumbai-born percussionist has been one of the most charismatic figures in jazz, always surrounded by a kit that looks like the contents of Aladdin's cave. If drum solos are often an excuse for the audience to visit the bar, with Gurtu they are the centrepiece to the show – a sonic voyage using tablas, gongs, box drums, rattles, cowbells, shells and even a bucket of water. But tonig...

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