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Brooklyn Raga Massive: Modern Jazz Raga Tradition at Rendon Hall

Courtesy of Paul S. Fingerote | Posted on June 13, 2019

Where

Rendon Hall
2040 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
Map
510.845.5373

When

Sun, July 21, 2019
4:30 PM

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Musicians

About

Sameer Gupta is known as one of the few percussionists simultaneously representing the traditions of American jazz on drumset, and Indian classical music on tabla. He completed his Jazz studies and began his Indian Classical learning from his peers and on stage in San Francisco and Oakland as well as now Harlem and Brooklyn. His own interests and love of tabla brought him up through several local tabla teachers in Delhi and San Rafael, ultimately to the great maestro Pt Anindo Chatterjee, of whom he is now a dedicated disciple. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Pawan Benjamin, started his musical training at a young age in Madison, Wisconsin, receiving guidance and mentorship from jazz luminaries such as bassist, Richard Davis, Roscoe Mitchell, and many others in the Madison area...

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