Harish Raghavan via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Harish Raghavan
- City: Brooklyn, NY
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
My Life & Work
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Bio:
For more than a decade, bassist-composer Harish Raghavan has helped lay the foundation for a thriving generation of artists. The Thelonious Monk Competition semifinalist garners acclaim as a sound architect for myriad original projects, from Ambrose Akinmusire’s to Eric Harland’s.
Other longtime collaborators include Logan Richardson, Vijay Iyer, Gerald Clayton, Taylor Eigsti and Walter Smith III.
Born in Chicago, the New York-based artist transitioned from Mridanga to bass at age 16. His appetite for mingling lineages has allowed him to craft an inclusive, deeply personal artistry. Raghavan’s debut album Calls for Action (Whirlwind Recordings) reflects his development as a composer and band leader. Fifteen original tracks serve as a cohesive narrative for the album, as well as standalone suites on either side of its vinyl release.
Raghavan received his BA in Music from USC — where he studied under John Clayton and Dave Carpenter, and later with Robert Hurst — and has become a highly sought educator. Teaching credits include Stanford Jazz Workshop, The New School, Siena Jazz Workshop, Banff and Centrum Jazz Workshop.
He also appears regularly on the international festival circuit.
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://harishraghavan.bandcamp.com/
- ▶ Buy My Vinyl: http://harishraghavan.bandcamp.com/
- ▶ Twitter: Harishbass
- ▶ Instagram: harishbass
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmLpDr0zdAexkhB_DjRc74w
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4yyl25wbG9In50pAGd16Ti
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1HTzfQiALkd0871SQuUmIq
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/74vUCcrlKsIJL0Kml9idOl
- ▶ Article: http://downbeat.com/news/detail/the-steady-patience-of-bassist-harish-raghavan
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
“To those in the know, Mr. Raghavan is one of the most exciting young bassists in jazz, but he’s also one of the most private. That made his performance at the Owl all the more intriguing. He played six original compositions with a sturdy, quicksilver quintet: Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Joel Ross on vibraphone, Taylor Eigsti on piano and Jeremy Dutton on drums. The tunes mostly pivoted on cycles of major harmony and intertwined polyrhythms, in which everyone played a part. The low-key M.V.P. was Mr. Ross, a slight player in his early 20s whose vibraphone was sometimes like a spray of confetti, erupting in brilliant bursts; elsewhere he took solos that had the slightest tug of swing, leaning against the locked-in syncopation of the rhythm section.”
- The New York Times, Dec 31 2017
Clips (more may be added)
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Harish Raghavan - 'AS' (Acoustic Version)
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Anjou
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The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
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IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
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A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
