Event Listing - Music

Mon Jul 6

JFM Presents....

VidyA

Location	Date and Time
Yoshi's Oakland 510 Embarcadero West Oakland, CA 94607 map cross street: Jack London Square district: Oakland (West)	Mon Jul 6 (8:00 PM)

Description

VidyA makes their debut at Yoshi's Oakland (8 PM), for an East meets West night of "Oneness." This adventurous group merges the virtuosity of jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Led by critically-acclaimed saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishnan along with David Ewell (bass) and Sameer Gupta (drums), VidyA has emerged with a soulful, penetrating sound that pushes the labels of jazz, fusion or world music. In Sanskrit, "vidya" means knowledge, and by exploring the space between thoughts, "VidyA" transcends knowledge to wisdom.

" -- there is a build-up of emotional energy and intellectual complexity which seems to recreate the energy that was present at the birth of bebop in 1940s New York -- mercilessly free of the standard melodic and rhythmic clichés." ~INDIA CURRENTS

"A style that's madly percussive and sparkling -- combines jazz's sweet dreaminess with the Indian form's insistent rhythmic and tonal changes." ~SF WEEKLY