Kinsmen/Svajanam: Dakshina Ensemble November 9, 2007

Two masters of the alto saxophone return for a much-anticipated U.S. tour. Kadri Gopalnath, a living legend of South Indian Carnatic music, and Rudresh Mahanthappa, a fiercely innovative Indian American jazz musician, present a cross-cultural, intergenerational collaborative suite that fuses a myriad of traditional and contemporary influences. The two are joined by their co-led Dakshina Ensemble with A. Kanyakumari (violin), Rez Abbasi (guitar/sitar-guitar), Carlo De Rosa (bass), Poovalur Sriji (mridangam-barrel drum), and royal hartigan (drum set).