# Rudresh Mahanthappa
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rudresh mahanthappa (born May 4, 1971) is a New York-based jazz alto saxophonist and composer.
== Biography ==
Mahanthappa is the son of Kodava Indian emigrants to the U.S. He was born in Trieste, Italy as a result of his father's job in academia, but spent most of his life in Boulder, Colorado. He graduated from Fairview High School in 1988, subsequently receiving a BM from the Berklee College of Music in 1992 and an MM in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University in 1998.
The Jazz Session #443: Rudresh Mahanthappa
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s new album is Bird Calls (ACT, 2015). The album was inspired by the music of Charlie Parker, although Mahanthappa composed original music rather than play Parker’s tunes. In this interview, he talks about the reasoning behind that choice; how hearing Charlie Par…
The Jazz Session #220: Rudresh Mahanthappa
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa teams up with fellow saxophonist Bunky Green for Apex (Pi Recordings, 2010), an album of original compositions featuring Jason Moran, Francois Moutin, Jack DeJohnette and Damion Reed. In this interview, Mahanthappa talks about his first exposure to Bunky Green’s …
The Jazz Session #122: Rez Abbasi
Guitarist Rez Abbasi continues his rhythmic and harmonic explorations on Things To Come (Sunnyside, 2009). He’s joined on this album by pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, bassist Johannes Weidenmeuller, drummer Dan Weiss, cellist Mike Block and vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia. In thi…
Interview 5: Rudresh Mahanthappa, ”Alto Sax Superhero”
Rudresh Mahanthappa tells us about his upcoming "Charlie Parker Celebration" performances at Smoke Jazz Club (Aug 25-28). He gives us insight into his quintet recording "Bird Calls" and recent trio recordings "Hero Trio" and "Animal Crossing." We discuss his early musical inspirations, ethnic influ…
Rich Brown
This week's guest Rich Brown. Hailing from Canada, Rich is a highly accomplished performer, composer, producer, and educator. He's recorded three albums as band leader and has been featured on over 70 recordings covering a wide range of musical genres. Rich has played, toured, and recorded with som…
Conference of the Birds, 7-7-23
THIS WEEK's BIRDS: cha'abi from Guerouabi; Roma sng from Rromnano Dives, B ajrami Selime, Trio Zajaze, and others; Kudsi Ergúner with jazz ensemble; Simon Barker, Henry Kaiser, Bill Laswell & Rudresh Mahanthappa; Sambeco (from Grande Camore); from Senegal: Kine Lam & Youssou n'Dour; from Haïti: Ens…
LINER NOTES with David Bixler featuring Rez Abbasi
Guitarist Rez Abbasi's recordings illustrate an artist that is pressing on, going for something new, rather than making alterations to what he has already done. So when sitarist Josh Feinberg approached him about a possible Indian-jazz collaboration he initially declined, as he already had several …
Episode #137: Kevin Sun
Kevin Sun is a Chinese-American saxophonist and composer. His music has been called “...intense, harmonically virtuosic and compositionally complex" (DownBeat Magazine), and he has released five albums to date—most recently a double album entitled The Depths of Memory in October 2023. Sun has also …
The A-Trane 2025-08-29 - Esperanza, Bird & Other Birthdays
In these waning days of summer just taking it easy on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with preview features and birthdays! An extended feature for the great Esperanza Spalding will take a sweep across her multi-faceted career, collaborations and recordings to preview her highl…
The A-Trane 2025-10-17 - PJ Perry, Rudresh, Previews, BDs, NRs etc
Mixing it up on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program: Previews for Pj Perry, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Madeleine Elkins, Chet Doxas, Rachael & Vilray, and Jocelyn Gould with the VJO; new releases from Mike LeDonne, Jerry Weldon, Kate Wyatt, Saku Mantere, and the west coast all-star grou…
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