India's First Big Band Jazz Concert in Hyd on June 24 #music #jazz

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In a first, fourteen jazz musicians from the United States and India will take the stage together on June 24 at Hyderabad's RNR Auditorium for Swing City Jazz, a one-night-only big band concert.

It would be the first ensemble of this format and international calibre being performed in India.

The concert, conceived and curated by Timothy Marthand, concert pianist and founder of Art Home Foundation, brings together three American artists and eleven of India's finest jazz players in a full-scale big band formation - saxophones, trumpets, trombones, bass, grand piano, electric guitar, and drums.

Leading the ensemble is saxophonist Dr. Jared Sims, named Boston's 2025 Jazz Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards.

He is joined by trumpeter Doug Olsen, and trombonist Reggie Watkins, internationally acclaimed music personalities.

The Indian contingent is anchored by Ryan Sadri, widely recognised as the country's most prominent jazz saxophonist.

The concert is the brainchild of Timothy Marthand, concert pianist and Adjunct Professor of Creative Thinking at IIT Hyderabad. Trained internationally, Marthand has produced more than 50 classical music concerts in Hyderabad.

He spoke vividly about the concert. “The performing arts are not a luxury. They are how a society reminds itself what it is capable of when human beings are in a room together, fully present, doing something difficult and beautiful, he said, adding that Hyderabad deserves to be a city where that happens regularly, at the highest level, with artists from around the world.

"Jazz in India has been building quietly for years. To share a stage with musicians of this calibre, in a proper big band setting, in front of a Hyderabad audience that genuinely cares about the music - this is a milestone for the Indian jazz community," Ryan Sadri added:

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