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A warm March night, with a special magnetism
(L to R) Rudy Royston, Rudresh Mahanthappa and François Moutin
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Rudresh Mahanthappa
Pizza Express, Soho
AFTER many records expressing the depth and complexity of his own unique musical essence, alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s new eponymous album with his Hero Trio — bassist Francois Moutin and drummer Rudy Royston, he counts it as “an immense pleasure to record music that is not my own.”
At Soho’s Pizza Express he performed a selection of these tunes with astonishing fluidity, breakneck speed and warm empathy with his confreres. Moutin’s deeply twanging artistry and Royston’s command of every percussive surface created a threesome unity of rampaging and moving sound.
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