Alto Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa follows His Highly Acclaimed Kinsmen & Apti Releases With Apex, an Historic Collaboration with Fellow Alto Saxophonist Vernice ‘Bunky‘ Green
Also featuring Jack DeJohnette, Jason Moran,
Francois Moutin & Damion Reid
Apex Will Be Released September 28, 2010 on Pi Recordings
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green - Apex
Apex is a blazing collaboration between alto saxophonists Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green that puts on display a fifty-year continuum of state-of-the-art saxophone playing. Featuring the all-star band of Jason Moran on piano, François Moutin on bass and switching off on drums, the dynamic Damion Reid and the great Jack DeJohnette, Apex shines a much-deserved spotlight on Bunky Green, a hugely influential but under-recognized original in jazz.
Mahanthappa, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, is widely recognized as one of the most important jazz musicians today. At 39 years old, he has perennially been on the Down Beat Critics Poll as alto saxophonist and composer and has been named Alto Saxophonist of the Year the last two years by the Jazz Journalist Association. His prior release Kinsmen (Pi 28), which masterfully combined jazz with South Indian music, was named the runner-up album of the year in the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll in 2008 and hailed as one of the top jazz albums of the year by numerous publications. Continue reading
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