{"id":2930,"date":"2013-11-22T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T18:44:11","slug":"from-lahore-to-lincoln-center-jazz-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/22\/from-lahore-to-lincoln-center-jazz-from-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lahore to Lincoln Center: Jazz from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2931\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2931\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/2013\/11\/from-lahore-to-lincoln-center-jazz-from-pakistan\/sachaljazz_promo1_0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2931\" title=\"sachaljazz_promo1_0\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/blunotes\/files\/2013\/11\/sachaljazz_promo1_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nijat Ali, the conductor and co-arranger of the Sachal Jazz Ensemble (courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe first thing you see and hear in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLF46JKkCNg&amp;list=TLJIqwcRIEwPrpdmH6TV5o97XhuWTtRhzm\">YouTube clip<\/a> of <strong>Dave Brubeck<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cTake Five,\u201d as recorded by the Sachal Jazz Ensemble in Lahore, Pakistan, is <strong>Ballu Khan<\/strong> breaking the song\u2019s familiar five-beat meter into furiously quick subdivisions on tabla, the hand drums endemic to Hindustani classical music. Cut to <strong>Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury<\/strong>, seated cross-legged atop a small wooden table, stating and then elegantly bending the melody; next, bearded men, clad in spotless white kurtas, sitting straight-backed on chairs and playing violins and cellos. In 2011, that YouTube video went viral, attracting nearly a half-million hits. Soon after, the Sachal Ensemble\u2019s \u201cTake Five,\u201d from its recording \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sachal-Jazz-Interpretations-Jazz-Standards-Bo\/dp\/B0044QDKUI\">Interpretations of Jazz Standards and Bossa Nova<\/a>,\u201d shot to the top of the iTunes chart in the U.S. and U.K.<br \/>\nWhen the Sachal Ensemble joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) at Manhattan\u2019s Rose Theater on November 22 and 23, the concerts will deepen a recent collaboration and extend an unlikely journey. Read my feature story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/988376\/from-lahore-to-lincoln-center-sachal-jazz-ensemble-performs\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you see and hear in a YouTube clip of Dave Brubeck\u2019s \u201cTake Five,\u201d as recorded by the Sachal Jazz Ensemble in Lahore, Pakistan, is Ballu Khan breaking the song\u2019s familiar five-beat meter into furiously quick subdivisions on tabla, the hand drums endemic to Hindustani classical music. Cut to Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury, seated cross-legged &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/22\/from-lahore-to-lincoln-center-jazz-from-pakistan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Lahore to Lincoln Center: Jazz from Pakistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12,13,14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/larryblumenfeld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}