INDO JAZZ FUSIONS REVISITED
INDO JAZZ FUSIONS REVISITED
Wed 16 November 2022
Stage time / 8:00pm
Doors / 7:00pm
Celebrating the Jazz Clubs
Celebrating John Mayer and Joe Harriott's 'Indo-Jazz Fusions'.
Led by and featuring Jonathan Mayer and Nick Smart, along with master tabla player Mitel Purohit, the band will feature some of the outstanding students of the Royal Academy of Music jazz department, including rising saxophone stars Emma Rawicz and Donovan Haffner.
Nick Smart - Trumpet - Biography
Head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Nick Smart is an internationally renowned jazz educator, trumpeter and musical director who has given guest masterclasses and performances around the world. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious UK Parliamentary Award for Jazz Education, in 2015 awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2022 conferred with Professorship of the University of London. At home he is recognised as one of the leading musicians on the UK jazz scene, where as well as being in regular demand as a sideman to players of all generations, he continues to record and tour with his own projects.
Jonathan Mayer - Sitar - Biography
Son of the late Kolkata composer John Mayer, Jonathan began his musical training at the early age of 5 with violin from his grandfather Albert Hepton, piano from James Methuen-Campbell and composition from his father. At the age of 16 he started his sitar training under the western sitarist Clem Alford who was a disciple of Sachindra Nath Saha from the Senia gharana. In 1993 Jonathan began studying composition from Andrew Downes as well as sitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire where he gained a B.Mus (Hons). After graduating he studied Imdadkhani gharana technical proficiency under Ustad Wajahat Khan and finally settled in to the Senia veen-kar Gharana under the extremely knowledgeable maestro the late Pandit Subroto Roy Chowdhury.
Led by and featuring Jonathan Mayer and Nick Smart, along with master tabla player Mitel Purohit, the band will feature some of the outstanding students of the Royal Academy of Music jazz department, including rising saxophone stars Emma Rawicz and Donovan Haffner.
Nick Smart - Trumpet - Biography
Head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Nick Smart is an internationally renowned jazz educator, trumpeter and musical director who has given guest masterclasses and performances around the world. In 2013 he was awarded the prestigious UK Parliamentary Award for Jazz Education, in 2015 awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2022 conferred with Professorship of the University of London. At home he is recognised as one of the leading musicians on the UK jazz scene, where as well as being in regular demand as a sideman to players of all generations, he continues to record and tour with his own projects.
Jonathan Mayer - Sitar - Biography
Son of the late Kolkata composer John Mayer, Jonathan began his musical training at the early age of 5 with violin from his grandfather Albert Hepton, piano from James Methuen-Campbell and composition from his father. At the age of 16 he started his sitar training under the western sitarist Clem Alford who was a disciple of Sachindra Nath Saha from the Senia gharana. In 1993 Jonathan began studying composition from Andrew Downes as well as sitar at the Birmingham Conservatoire where he gained a B.Mus (Hons). After graduating he studied Imdadkhani gharana technical proficiency under Ustad Wajahat Khan and finally settled in to the Senia veen-kar Gharana under the extremely knowledgeable maestro the late Pandit Subroto Roy Chowdhury.
