Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Charu Suri sees her recent nomination not just as a personal milestone, but as a larger ...

Globally acclaimed pianist and composer Charu Suri only discovered jazz four years ago. Suri, who kicks off a four-night residency at Detroit’s Cliff Bell’s jazz club Thursday, March 7, had been a ...

Quadrature is a musical powerhouse that redefines sonic frontiers with their electric blend of raga, rock, jazz and psychedelia. Rooted in deep musical traditions, yet soaring into uncharted ...

With his twin braids running down his shoulders, saxophonist George Brooks blends right into the Berkeley landscape. Offstage, there’s not much to indicate that he’s a transformative artist. On the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Charu Suri, the renowned pianist and composer, treads fearlessly between genres, ...

Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy is making the world safe for raga. Raised in a highly cultured South Indian family in central New Jersey, he started to learn the classical music tradition by ...

When I first heard the raga jazz pieces on Charu Suri’s album The Book of Ragas, Volume I, I was immediately fascinated by her music. The combination of the jazz combo accompanying a vocalist singing ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

In Indian classical music, a raga is a framework for improvisation within a specific set of melodies and motifs. Charu Suri, the first Indian-born jazz composer to play their own compositions at ...

Although largely ignored today except by astute guitar students, the late Gabor Szabo left behind a large body of work that is still very much misunderstood. A descendent of Hungarian gypsies, Szabo's ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — As the world gets smaller and more accessible, deep-rooted musical traditions can be shared more readily between musicians of different disciplines. The public has a chance to ...