Rudresh Mahanthappa
Rudresh Mahanthappa ( born May 4, 1971 in Trieste, Italy) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Life and work
The descendant of Indian immigrants Mahanthappa grew up in Boulder / Colorado and studied until 1992 at the Berklee College of Music, and then to complete by 1998 a master's degree in jazz composition at DePaul University in Chicago. He has performed with musicians such as David Murray, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Samir Chatterjee, Von Freeman, Tim Hagans, Fareed Haque, Howard Levy, David Liebman, Greg Osby, Kevin Ellington Mingus and Dr. Lonnie Smith.
He works in several ensembles: Rudresh Mahanthappa the Quartet ( with Vijay Iyer, François Moutin and Elliot Humberto Kavee ), the raw material ( with Vijay Iyer ), the dual identity ( with Steve Lehman ), the Dakshina Ensemble ( an Indo- jazz Septet with Kadri Gopalnath ) and MSG ( with Ronan Guilfoyle and Chander Sardjoe ). In Europe, he was in 2008 with the French trio Dupont T on tour, 2012, Nguyên Lê, Rich Brown and Gene Lake.
In 1996 his first album Yatra with Ryan Shultz, Jim Trompeter, Larry Kohut and Jerry Steinhilber, followed in 2002 by Blackwater and 2004 with the Mother Tongue Rudresh Mahantappa Quartet.
Prizes and awards
This, together with Kadri Gopalnath rehearsed album Kinsmen (2008 ) received in 2009 by the jury of the Prize of the German Record Critics' the Quarterly Prize in the category Jazz. 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was honored as the best alto saxophonist with the Jazz Journalists Association Award. 2011 and 2012 he also won the Kritikerpoll the downbeat.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Gamak (ACT, 2013)
- Samdhi (ACT, 2011)
- Apex (Pi Recordings, 2010)
- Apti ( innova, 2008)
- Kinsmen (Pi Recordings, 2008)
- Codebook (Pi Recordings, 2006)
- Raw material ( Savoy Jazz, 2006)
- Mother Tongue (Pl Records, 2004)