Trilok Gurtu @ Rhino Jazz

It is an essential legend of world-jazz that the Rhino receives here in the person of Trilok Gurtu, great master of Indian percussion (tablas, cymbals, etc.) and outstanding rhythmician always in search of absolute harmony in the world. Atypical (he has the particularity of playing squatting on the ground), fundamentally cosmopolitan, this native of Bombay is undoubtedly one of the most eminent bridges between Indian music and jazz, an intuitive creator open to all hybridizations to offer the best of what in the legendary seventies, we called fusion. It was at this time that the immense trumpeter Don Cherry (who died in 95) gave him a chance and became a sort of mentor for the percussionist whose references also go to Miles Davis and Dizzie Gillespie. The career of Trilok Gurtu was therefore upward and the cantor of cultural mixing (he draws indiscriminately from the sources of India, the Orient, the USA and Europe) will play alongside the biggest names in jazz-rock. , such as John Mc Laughlin, Joe Zawinul