Mahanthappa has also worked with Jack DeJohnette, Mark Dresser, Danilo Pérez, Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the collaborative trios MSG and Mauger, the co-led quintet Dual Identity with fellow altoist Steve Lehman and another co-led quintet with fellow altoist and Chicago stalwart Bunky Green, producing the album Apex.
Apti, the first outing by Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition (with Pakistani-born Rez Abbasi on guitar and Dan Weiss on tabla), saw release the same year Agrima followed nine years later and considerably expanded the trio's sonic ambitions.
He and Iyer also formed the duo Raw Materials.Ĭoming deeper into contact with the Carnatic music of his parents' native southern India, Mahanthappa partnered in 2008 with fellow altoist Kadri Gopalnath and the Dakshina Ensemble for Kinsmen, garnering wide acclaim. The band recorded an enduring sequence of albums, Black Water, Mother Tongue and Codebook, each highlighting Mahanthappa's inventive methodologies and deeply personal approach to composition. Soon after moving to New York in 1997, he formed his own quartet featuring pianist Vijay Iyer. He went on to studies at North Texas, Berklee and DePaul University (as well as the Stanford Jazz Workshop) and came to settle in Chicago. P. Lee '79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University.īorn in Trieste, Italy to Indian émigrés in 1971, Mahanthappa was brought up in Boulder, Colorado and gained proficiency playing everything from current pop to Dixieland. He has also received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, among other honors, and is the Anthony H.
He won alto saxophonist of the year in the 2015-2017 JazzTimes Magazine Critics' Polls and was named the Village Voice's "Best Jazz Artist" in 2015. He has over a dozen albums to his credit, including the acclaimed Bird Calls, which topped many critics' best-of-year lists for 2015 and was hailed by PopMatters as "complex, rhythmically vital, free in spirit while still criss-crossed with mutating structures." Mahanthappa has been named alto saxophonist of the numerous times both in Downbeat Magazine's International Critics' Polls (2011-2013, 2015-2018) and by the Jazz Journalists' Association (2009-2013, 2016). Hailed by Pitchfork as "jaw-dropping… one of the finest saxophonists going," alto saxophonist, composer and educator Rudresh Mahanthappa is widely known as one of the premier voices in jazz of the 21st century.
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