Hiromi Uehara first mesmerized the jazz community with her 2003 Telarc debut, Another Mind. The buzz started by her first album spread all the way back to her native Japan, where Another Mind shipped gold (100,000 units) and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s (RIAJ) Jazz Album of the Year Award. The keyboardist/ composer’s […]
Krakatau was founded in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia in 1985. The band started when bassist Pra Budidharma returned from Seattle. Washington, USA to begin a jazz career in Indonesia. The personnel and concept for Krakatau took shape during weekly jam sessions sponsored by the “Jazz Break” program in Bandung, a city known throughout Indonesia for […]
Born on the Indian sub-continent, removed at the age of four to the driving sounds of Southern California, schooled at the University of Southern California and the Manhattan School of Music in jazz and classical music, as well as a pilgrimage in India under the tutorial of master percussionist, Ustad Alla Rakha, Rez Abbasi is […]
Guggenheim fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa is one of the most innovative young musicians and composers in jazz today. Named a Rising Star of the alto saxophone by the Downbeat International Critics Poll for the past four years, #2 in 2006, Rudresh has incorporated the culture of his Indian ancestry and has fused myriad influences to create […]
Yuri Mahatma was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1972. Moved to Bali in 1980 until now. He got the first music influences from his sister, Dian Pratiwi, a professional Jazz singer. Studied guitar since he was 12-year old (self-tought). After finished high school, Yuri intensively studied jazz music privately from many guitarists, among them is […]