Funchal Jazz Festival Rudresh Mahanthappa

RUDRESS MAHANTHAPPA BIRD CALLS

JUL 15 | 23:15

Adam O'Farrill trumpet / trumpet

Rudresh Mahanthappa alto sax / alto sax

Bobby Avey piano

Thomson Kneeland double bass / double bass

Rudy Royston drums / drums

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION | AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

#1 Jazz Journalists Association "Alto Saxophonist of the Year" 2009-2013, 2016

#1 JazzTimes Critics' Poll "Alto Saxophone" 2011, 2014, 2015

#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Alto Saxophone" 2011, 2012, 2013,_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136 2_bad201cf5136

#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Jazz Album of the Year" 2015 ( Bird Calls )

#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Composer" 2015

#1 JazzTimes Critics' Poll "Best Acoustic Group/Artist" 2015 ( Bird Calls )

#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Jazz Artist" 2009

#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Alto Saxophone" 2009

#1 NPR Critics' Poll "Jazz Album of the Year" 2015 ( Bird Calls )

#1 Village Voice "Best Jazz Artist" 2015

#1 JazzLogical "International Musician of the Year" 2015

#4 JazzTimes Critics' Poll "Artist of the Year" 2015

#4 JazzTimes Critics' Poll "Composer" 2015

#3 JazzTimes Critics' Picks "Top 50 CDs" 2015 ( Bird Calls )

#2 JazzLogical "International CD" 2015 ( Bird Calls )

# Nomination by the Jazz Journalists Association "Alto Saxophonist of the Year" 2015

# Nomination by the Jazz Journalists Association "Composer of the Year" 2016

# Nomination by the Jazz Journalists Association "Record of the Year" 2016 ( Bird Calls )

# Nomination by the Jazz Journalists Association "Midsize Ensemble" 2016 (Bird Calls quintet)

#3 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Alto Saxophone" 2014

#2 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Composer" 2013, 2014

#3 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Composer" 2012

#4 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Jazz Album of the Year" 2011 ( Apex )

#4 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Jazz Artist" 2011

# Nomination by Jazz Journalists Association "Recording of the Year" 2011 ( Apex )

#2 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Alto Saxophone" 2010

#4 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Composer" 2009

# 58th GRAMMY® Best Instrumental Composition (Arturo O'Farrill - composer - Afro-Latin _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-138d_54cc157cc -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Jazz Suite - Arturo O'Farrill_cc781905-5cde- 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_& The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa)

# Doris Duke Performing Artist Award

# Guggenheim Fellowship

# New York Foundation For The Arts Fellowship (2 x)

# Rockefeller Foundation MAP Funch Commission

# Chamber Music America Commission

# American Composers Forum Commission

Rudresh Mahanthappa is, without any doubt, the most recognized and awarded saxophonist (if not the musician) of the last decade of jazz history,_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_continuando the awards and nominations that have come to him, with greater intensity than ever, over the last year.

Although with some really noteworthy appearances as a sideman (with, among many others, Jack DeJohnette, Rez Abbasi, Danilo Pérez, Jason Robinson or Clark Terry), the collaboration he maintained over several years with the pianist Vijay Iyer (from which resulted, in all, from no less than nine albums) and, increasingly, his career as a leader has been the main focus of a path that already has more than two decades of continuous and intense activity and about a dozen of records to his name, as well as several co-led projects with Steve Lehman, Bunky Green, Kadri Gopalnath, Mark Dresser, and Gerry Hemingway.

For the creation of Bird Calls , Mahanthappa did not limit himself to a mere reinterpretation of the repertoire of the great master and father of bebop and modern jazz, Charlie “Bird” Parker, having previously composed all the music for the project, in a kind of “Charlie Parker reimagined", a task through which he makes clear than ever the high originality of his musical being and the need that, whenever true art is a postas de lado a colagem, a imitação e a repetição. Para a apresentação de Bird Calls no Funchal Jazz Festival 2016, Rudresh Mahanthappa features musicians as distinguished as trumpeter Adam O'Farrill , pianist Bobby Avey , bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Rudy Royston .