Rudresh Mahanthappa's Bird Calls (Celebrating Charlie Parker) at The Center For the Arts!
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The current manifestations of that trajectory include his latest project Bird Calls, which was issued in February 2015 and recently named "Album of the Year" in Downbeat Magazine's International Critics Poll. Rudresh was also honored as Alto Saxophonist of the Year for the fourth time, as well as Rising Star Composer of the Year in the Poll.
Though it pays homage to one of jazz's Founding Fathers and arrives at the outset of Charlie Parker's 95th birthday year, Bird Calls is not a tribute album. There isn't a single Parker composition to be found on the album. But Bird's DNA is strongly present in all of these pieces, each of which takes a particular Parker melody or solo as its source of inspiration then wholly reimagined and re-contextualized by Mahanthappa and his quintet.
Mahanthappa has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and numerous commissions. He has been named alto saxophonist of the year for five years running by the Jazz Journalists' Association. In April 2013, he received a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, one of the most prominent arts awards in the world.
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