After topping so many best-of-year lists with his extraordinary quintet on 2015's Bird Calls (ACT), alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has gone into trio mode. His gritty, self-released ...
Long before alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa topped numerous jazz critics’ polls for his fiery playing, he was a kid growing up in Boulder, studying with Mark Harris, now a teacher at Metro State ...
All great jazz musicians are omnivores, admired for their ability to ingest and synthesize large schools of music. Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa is one such omnivore, maybe best described as an ...