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Name | Rudresh Mahanthappa |
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Country | United States |
About You (optional) | Pitchfork: “jaw-dropping… one of the finest saxophonists going.” Rudresh has worked with Jack DeJohnette, Mark Dresser, Danilo Pérez, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra & many others. He has over a dozen albums to his credit and has been named alto saxophonist of the year for seven of eight years running in DOWNBEAT’s International Critics’ Polls (2011-2013, 2015-2018) and was named the Village Voice’s “Best Jazz Artist” in 2015. As an educator, he is the Director of Jazz at Princeton University. |