MUSIC Under The Stars with Jazz Espartano at The Hungry Monkey, B6/6 DDA Market, Safdarjung Enclave > 9pm onwards on 8th September 2016

Time : 9:00 pm onwards Add to Calendar 08/09/2016 21:00 08/09/2016 23:30 Asia/Kolkata MUSIC Under The Stars with Jazz Espartano Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/music-under-stars-with-jazz-espartano.html The Hungry Monkey, B6/6 DDA Market, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : reservation recommended

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Venue : The Hungry Monkey, B6/6 DDA Market, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi

Landmark : Opposite Deer Park
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Event Description : MUSIC Under The Stars with Jazz Espartano.

JAZZ ESPARTANO is a fiery jazz quartet. The music is bold and brave. We musicians see the stage as a warrior sees the battlefield. That's the intensity we will bring. We live to play this great music of jazz and our whole life is dedicated to it. 

Members:
Pradyumna Singh Manot - Piano
Anton Serrats - Bass
Kunal No - Drums

Aayushi Karnik - Guitar

PRADYUMNA SINGH MANOT a.k.a. PADDY started his life in music on the piano at the age of six. Since that time he has been extensively studying Western Classical, Jazz, Latin, Latin jazz and North Indian classical music.

At the age of 8 he started performing regularly for the All India Radio in their “Calling All Children” programme.
In Western Classical music, Pradyumna has finished his grade 8 in piano from the Royal Schools of Music, London and given numerous solo recitals and performed with the city orchestras, the main one being A'telier de Musique conducted by Abraham Mazumdar. His main performances included a solo recital of the works of Chopin and the performance of Mozart Piano concertos. He took part in numerous music competitions at various venues winning top prizes in all of them.

Pradyumna studied North Indian classical music for three years. He studied tabla under Ustad Sabir Khan of the Farrukhabad Gharana and vocal music under Kumar Mukherjee and Ustad Raza Ali Khan of the Patiala Gharana.

Through Pradyumna's studies of North Indian Classical music and Jazz music, he has given many concerts with Indian musicians such as Grammy winner Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Ustad Rashid Khan, Ustad Sabir Khan, Pandit Vikku Vinayakram, Ustad Taufique Qureshi, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Ustad Raza Ali Khan, Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya, Pandit Subhankar Banerjee, Pandit Gopal Burman, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Mazumdar, Pandit Jyoti Guho, Pandit Vaidyanath Suresh, Pandit Satish Kumar, Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, Arif Khan, Rishabh Dhar, and Arshad Ali Khan among others. With Ustad Raza Ali Khan he is working on a duo project between jazz piano and Indian Classical vocal.

Pradyumna has worked with many dancers across different dance forms. He worked with Ballerinas Leah Curtis and Emily McLoughlin where he composed the score for the performance called “Memory Space’’. He also did other projects with them. He has toured and performed with the world famous tap dancer Jason Samuel Smith and world famous kathak maestro Pandit Chitresh Das. He also regularly works with salsa and hip hop dancers and is closely associated with Salsa company “Mambo City”.

He was a part of the Saturday Night Blues Band and performed with them for two years spanning over a hundred performances thus integrating the Blues genre of music into his personal style.

Alongside the Indian legend of Latin music, Monojit Datta, Pradyumna co-founded the band Los Amigos. Los Amigos at the time was the only Latin Jazz ensemble in India and performed extensively promoting Latin Jazz and salsa parties alike. Los Amigos made its international debut in March 2011 at the Java Jazz Festival where greats such as Carlos Santana, George Benson, and the Afro-Cuban All Stars performed. Los Amigos recorded three albums as well. Pradyumna continues his passion for Latin Jazz piano with two more bands, Latination and Jazzeando alongside French percussionist Emmanuel Simon. 

Pradyumna’s main focus has been jazz piano. He took it up full time at the age of 16 and founded the band “Nebula” which was a band of teenagers and they performed at many places in the city of Kolkata and received great appreciation for playing jazz. Later he founded the jazz quartet, “Four On A Swing” which has featured stalwart musicians of India such as Sumith Ramachandran and Monojit Datta. “Four On A Swing” has performed many places including the Congo Square Jazz Festival. He is studying jazz piano under India’s best jazz musician Madhav Chari. At the Java Jazz Festival, he received accolades from all the great jazz musicians he jammed with including George Benson, Joey DeFrancesco, Roy Hargrove and many others. He has performed with American Jazz Singer Clare Michaud, Canadian Trombonist Alistair Kay (who played for Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra) and star bassist Steve Zerlin. He is frequently invited by various musicians to perform on their jazz ensembles such as Australian jazz guitarist Alex Stuart and Indian guitar legend Sumith Ramachandran. He has performed in many venues across India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, UAE, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Macau, and Bangladesh.

Pradyumna has been teaching music since the age of 18. He was the piano teacher at Birla High School for five years teaching boys between the ages of 10-18. He teaches music privately and has students of all ages and professions. He has conducted workshops on various subjects within music at places such as the Rotary Club of India, Weaver’s Studio, Suchitra Art Studio, and others. He takes music education as a passion and teaches on various things such as the history of music, the tradition of music, the relationship between culture and music, the connections, similarities and differences of various music genres. The unique style of his teaching is that his approach is purely from a musical point of view where he shows everything practically through the piano, audio and visual demonstrations. The student and listener get an insight through the language of music rather than a reader’s perspective. An insight that they can practically apply whenever they listen to music.


Antón Serrats was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1988. He started his musical training at the age of 9 playing classical piano, and at the age of 15 he first picked up the electric bass and truly discovered his passion. Diving into a broad spectrum of styles of music and combining them to create new sounds has always been of his interest. Creating and performing original music has been at the center of his musical career. 

In his early years, he was focused on Funk, Rock and psychedelic/experimental music, mainly touring and recording with the band Mugga. Antón moved to New York City in 2014 to attend the two-year program of The Collective School Of Music, from which he received a full scholarship. During those years he was able to work with international musicians playing Jazz, Latin, Electronic music, Funk , Ska, Reggae, Rock, Pop, Folk and Hip Hop.

About his original music, Antón has recorded 3 studio albums with Mugga in Spain, and another studio album with the Neo-Jazz Groove band Think of New York, which he produced. On the side, he has worked as a freelance in both studio sessions as well as live performances. He has a B.S. in Audio Production by Middlesex University, and a Degree in Music Performance by The Collective School Of Music. Currently he has moved to India in pursue of new experiences and musical influences that can push forward his musical career.

Kunal has been playing drums since 15 years.He has been playing and recording as a session musician since 2009 here in India.Kunal recently graduated from THE COLLECTIVE SCHOOL OF MUSIC,New York City in December 2015 with a diploma in music.

Aayushi Karnik is a 20 year old Guitarist/Singer /Songwriter from Surat, Gujarat . Initially being part of a few bands she got to explore various genres of music ranging from the Blues to Punk rock. But it was soon a realization that her passion was the Blues.
Aayushi started playing guitar at the age of 12 though gave a serious thought of working hard on the instrument when she entered high school. Being a Convent student she was encouraged to participate in School Choir and other Carol singing competitions. Her first proper band that was more of a duo was named as ‘Zephyr’ consisting of herself and Hardik Desai. The duo survived for almost a year composing a few tunes of their own. 
As a kid Aayushi used to watch a lot of Warner Bros. cartoons and was fascinated by the background score which lead her to try to transcribe the horn sections played in series on her guitar. She was later introduced to Chuck Berry by a friend which got her interest in Rock n Roll and later the Blues. Soulmate, a Shillong based Blues band inspired her heavily to stick to the Blues despite the odds of being in Gujarat . Soon she got aware of the Mahindra Blues Fest that is held in Mumbai, through the internet and was dumbstruck after watching the performances by Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Robert Randolph, Soulmate and Blackstrat Blues. Aayushi was soon driven to form a Blues band but the conditions in the local music scene couldn’t permit her to do so initially and thus, she formed an acoustic band with a friend accompanying her on guitars. The acoustic band was called ‘Red Blues’ and then soon the rest of the members joined in. 
Being a former Architecture student, she soon realized that she wanted to play the guitar and take music professionally . Currently, she is working on her own music and planning to go solo as a musician and songwriter.

Influences: 
Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Simon and Garfunkel, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Derek Trucks, Jon Cleary, Django Reinhardt, Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews Band, Ray Charles etc.

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