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SUMMARY:THE ALAYA PROJECT
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Lab\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102
DESCRIPTION:The Oakland-based band exploring the intersection of Carnatic I
 ndian classical music with jazz and funk return to the Joe Henderson Lab w
 ith new music and material from their 2022 self-titled debut album. Made u
 p of percussionist Rohan Krishnamurthy \, saxophonist Prasant Radhakrishna
 n \, and keyboardist Colin Hogan \, the trio was formed in 2017 to perform
  at an UnderCover Presents concert in Berkeley honoring the 50th Anniversa
 ry of the Beatles’ immortal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band \, a
 nd was the perfect outlet for longtime friends Krisnamurthy and Radhakrish
 nan to meld their love of jazz with their extensive South Indian classical
  training. A Kalamazoo\, Michigan native\, Krishnamurthy is one of the lea
 ding lights of Carnatic music in the U.S. and a master of the mridangam 
 — a double-headed drum that is the primary rhythm accompaniment in Carna
 tic music and is played by Krishnamurthy in this project in conjunction wi
 th the Western drum set. Phoenix-born Radhakrishnan is known to SFJAZZ aud
 iences through his dynamic Indo-Jazz trio VidyA and has been a major force
  in Bay Area jazz since 2005. Hogan is a San Francisco native who came thr
 ough the prestigious Berkeley High jazz program and works with Tommy Igoe\
 , Jazz Mafia\, and his brothers in the Hogan Brothers band.\n\nhttps://www
 .sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/26-27/the-alaya-project/
URL:https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/26-27/the-alaya-project/
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