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Beatles songs jazzed up for open-air performance
Updated On: 21 November, 2009 08:58 AM IST | | Lindsay Pereira
The city plays host to a night of jazz where two American musicians will show you how they've been redefining music by the Beatles, with a little help from Ustad Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain
The city plays host to a night of jazz where two American musicians will show you how they've been redefining music by the Beatles, with a little help from Ustad Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain
The late American jazz pianist William John Evans had an interesting definition of the kind of music he played. He referred to jazz as a mental attitude, rather than a style. "It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through some musical instrument," he once explained. "I'm concerned with retaining that process."
A search for that attitude is, in effect, what continues to draw all kinds of people to jazz festivals the world over. You can get a taste of it too, if you mosey down to the Seagram's 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 being held in Mumbai this weekend.
One of the headliners is BeatleJazz, featuring David Kikoski on piano, Peter Barshay on bass and Brian Melvin on drums and percussion. Why the name BeatleJazz? Brian says he came up with it years ago to help people get the message clearly, from the get go.
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