Musicians who lean toward a cerebral approach face two challenges: avoiding contrivance, and ensuring there's enough emotional content to resonate with listeners on an instinctive level. Altoist ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa's previous quartet album, Mother Tongue (Pi, 2004), explored the transposition of Indian dialects into the structural frameworks of acoustic jazz. Codebook builds on the alto ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa composed the nine pieces on Codebook by taking inspiration from ideas and concepts found in cryptography; rhythms and melodies were encoded or convoluted in order to approach the ...
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