– Friday 24th October
– 7.30pm
– Cripa, Auroville
Entry free – contributions welcome

– Friday 24th October
– 7.30pm
– Cripa, Auroville
Entry free – contributions welcome

Dhani Muniz – fretless bass, electric guitar
Kirtana Krishna – voice
Raul Mattia – drumset
Arjun Chandran – resonator guitar
Sankarshan Kini – viola
Tommaso D’Avanzo – percussion
Aman Mahajan – piano

– Saturday 11th October
– 7.30pm
– Cripa, Auroville
As always, this is a free event, contributions are welcome 

They will be joined by contemporary pianist Aman Mahajan.

A night of boundless musical dialogue awaits!

Date: March 7th, Friday
Time: 8pm onwards

Brought to you by Dorian House & FishBone

5, Casern St, White Town, Puducherry, 605001
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CRIPA

Jan 22nd, 7pm

presents alive jazz & localicious dinner a
Schizophrenic jazz & funk
Dinner begins at 7pm music begins at 7:45pm

Article by Dinesh Varma published in The Hindu

Jazz, in a sense, is a back and forth with the world, says Auroville-based jazz musician Dhani Muniz, who has come out with a debut jazz album featuring leading artists who have performed widely on music circuits across the U.S. and Europe besides India.

A guitarist, singer, writer and composer born in Albany, New York, and now settled in the universal township where he covers the art scene for an in-house journal, Muniz’s ‘Chimu Fiesta’ has been billed as an album ‘bred out of dissatisfaction and a healthy dose of anger’.

Chimu is a reference to a pre-Incan civilisation now famed for, among other things, the intrinsic violence of their culture. And, the music is a signifier of a certain type of creative violence, one that is most often palpable in the early stages of things — abstract art, modern classical music, rock n’ roll, Delta blues, jazz, and basically all human civilisation.

“Jazz is a give and take with the world”, he says. “Why are so many current jazz musicians so interested not only in hip-hop culture, but in the culture of Africa, of this idea of returning to something more natural, more holistic? It’s a reaction to what they feel in the world”.

The debut album was a product of his collaborative music project “Suite; The Expatriate” and featured a quintet of composer-musicians Jules Arindam, a city-born graduate of the Los Angeles Music Academy on bass, pianist-composer Aman Mahajan, Suresh Bascara, a French-Indian percussionist from Auroville, and Dutch-born Maarten Visser on tenor and soprano saxophone.

Twisha, Jazz meets Raga
Shanks on Guitar & Iti on Sitar

• When: 17th May 2022, 7:30pm
• Where: Visitor’s Centre Auroville

• When: 7pm, 17 April 2022
• Where: Right Path Cafe, Visitors Center’s, Auroville

• When: Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 6:30 PM IST
• Where: Dorian House, Taluk PO, TN 605101 View Map
• Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moment-to-moment-timeless-jazz-classics-tickets-268101487767

Art (is) Life, a week-long festival (Dec 5-11) with thoughtfully curated events, including drumming, yakshagana, contemporary dance, jazz fusion music, and theatre.

To register, http://www.artislife.events/?mc_cid=3bc56c5f4f&mc_eid=3aa3d68510

The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) is launching one of the first digital museums in the country. Join us as we celebrate with a week-long festival, Art (is) Life. The festival premieres with a special event on 5 December 2020, and a curated programme of events follows each day, till 11 December 2020.

Each day of Art (is) Life focuses on one department of the MAP collection, as we travel through time and across borders, with experts, performers and other museum partners, showcasing how the arts are interconnected with each other. Join us to celebrate the birth of a new museum for a new era.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/melodic-forms-simple-harmony

About this Course

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This course is about how music works. It is about the relationship between the technical and aesthetic details of music. It is also about how developing a meaningful theoretical vocabulary can help you think and talk about musical style, and how learning that vocabulary can expand your appreciation for music.

In this course you will learn music theory not by looking at theory itself, but by listening to, looking at, and—yes!—writing your own musical examples. By hearing, seeing, and writing yourself, you will learn about classical, modern, ancient, pop, jazz, and folk styles. Through lectures, relevant examples, and numerous practice assignments, we will examine fundamental aspects of melody. We will move into working with two voices and counterpoint, and finally to three voices and the beginnings of harmonic function. This is an intermediate-level course for musicians and composers who already have some understanding of music theory through previous study. If you are a musician or composer looking to build a deeper understanding of music theory for composing, performing, or improvisation, you have come to the right place. If you are an amateur lover of music or, perhaps, play a musical instrument and want to develop a deeper sense of appreciation for music theory, aesthetics, and history, you are also in the right place!

Vera & Rolf – Jazz
Shakti Trio – Bossa Nova
Amando&Dhani Band – Rock
Swaha & Band – Blues

at the Visitors’ Center on
Sunday 29th April at 7:30 PM

As usual, you will find tea, coffee and cakes served with a big smile.

“Jurriaan & friends”

at the Visitor’s Center,
Sunday 11th March, 8:00 PM

Dear friends
Satish Gupta the great master will create a large work of Art while Vini & Vadhani will dance and Mahesh Vinayakram sing at the Krtashraya Aurodhan Gardens at 7.30 on 16th and 17th of June 2017 with Pradeep Kumar .
A first time exclusive master stroke ,shared with Haikus and poetry for you.
Welcome to Share the joy

Dhani – guitar & vocals

Shakti – piano & vocals, Sep – drums, Rolf – bass

Visitors’ Center, on Saturday 28th of Jan at 7:30 pm

29th January: FUNKY DANCE MUSIC
with Daniel Roth keyboard (has worked with Ray Charles and many top cats in the USA) Dhanni electric guitar, Mishko M’Ba electric bass, Suresh Bascara drums , Kranti vocals.

1st February: A TRIBUTE TO PASTORIUS
Presented by Mishko M’Ba and the Jaco Pastorius Tribute Band.
Mishko M’Ba electric bass, Suresh Bascara drums, Matt Littlewood sax, Aman Mahajan keys.
Localicious Dinner starts @ 7 pm
Concert/dance starts @ 8 pm
There are costs to run these events so a contribution is requested to help cover costs. Any additional funds/contributions are warmly received. We are aiming to start these events with gift economy as inspired by Jean Francois Noubel, It will take a moment to get into place, but it seems to be an exciting way in which we could re-explore the value that arts, music and celebration has for us on a collective level and what it brings to our community.

Yours, Krishna (Ph: 9843319260)

Open Mic

Calling all closet, amateur and professional musicians, singers, writers, poets, dancers, and performers!

Our stage and hearts are open, please come together for an evening of delightful sharing

On Tuesday December 27, 7 pm onwards at Solitude Farm Cafe.

If you’d like to participate, please call Shachi: 98200 92126.

Dinner and desserts available to order.

LIVE MUSIC: A History of Jazz Bass with Mishko M’ba (bass), Matt Littlewood (keys)

Join us at Solitude Farm Cafe on Wednesday 28 December – 7 pm onwards

as Mishko M’ba takes us on a spoken and musical journey through the history and evolution of the role of the electric bass in jazz music,

since its appearance in 1952 to the present day.

Dinner and desserts available to order.

LIVE MUSIC: Emergence

Thursday December 29, 7 pm onwards at Solitude Farm Cafe

Dinner and desserts available to order.

Krishna Mckenzie (guitar+lead vocals), Mishko’Mba (bass), Karthik Iyer (violin+vocals) and Soundar Rajan (drums/percussion)

form Emergence, an acoustic indo-pop band with electric stage presence. The band’s music spreads the spirit and message of Japanese

Zen master and farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, natural farming, the importance of local, seasonal and fresh ingredients in reclaiming our

nutritional and ecological health, and the value of celebration in community. Passionate frontman Krishna fills in the gaps between

tracks with snippets that convey Fukuoka’s spirituality and life at Solitude Farm, while Mishko’s face-melting basslines and violin

prodigy Karthik delight and uplift audiences.

Wednesday 27th, April, 8:00 pm

Shanks – vocals & acoustic guitar
Matt – sax
Holger – double bass
Suresh – percussion
Rolf – acoustic guitar

For more information go to the Madras Jazz Festival‘s facebook site.

Bands that I play for:
www.refugemusic.in
krishnastemplerock.com
facebook.com/radha.thomas
www.jazzinindia.com/jaco-pastorius-tribute

contact:
e-mail: matt-jazz [at] hotmail.com

links:
blogs with information and photos:
http://saxindia.blogspot.in/
http://mattlittlewood.blogspot.in/

www.facebook.com/matt.littlewood.9

music on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/mattav

work: