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THE BROWN INDIAN BAND The Brown Indian Band features Indian classical musicians in concert with jazz musicians. Indian classical music has always drawn parallels with jazz since both forms of music involve improvisation. Indian classical music is melodically and rhythmically rich. Subtle quarter tones and complex rhythm structures are Indian classical musicians forte. Jazz on the other hand, is the most open, alive and evolving form of music where boundaries are contineously pushed back through collaborations with just about any sound of music in the world today. The Brown Indian Band takes the best of both forms of improvised music and spices things up with liberal doses of afro-cuban, latin, funk and closer to home ‘mandoistic’ grooves, to create an exciting sound of world music. If music is a universal language then The Brown Indian Band stretches the vocabulary in concert! The band is led by bassplayer Colin D’Cruz who chose the name for the band simply because he’s proud about an Indian’s natural tan. When the whole world wants to be beautifully brown, most Indian’s unfortunately, are not too happy about their ‘wheatish’ complexions. So ‘The Brown Indian Band’ it will be in concert for the IFFI at the Kala Academy, Panjim on the 3rd of December. Colin D’Cruz is probably the only jazz musician in the country who has performed with just about every other jazz musician in the local circuit. Some of his bands can be reviewed at his website www.hullocheck.com He believes his best is always yet to come and is contineously influenced by evolving forms of rhythm, melody and harmony that invariably surface in his own compositions. The Brown Indian Band has floating personnel that very often features accomplished international jazz artistes blending in seamlessly with local virtuosos. The band’s lineup for the IFFI concert will include: Yvonne Gonsalves……………..Vocals Scot Andersen…………...…….Vocals Dhiraj Kapadia……...……...…..Basuri Jayson Jones…….....…….Saxophone Gerard Machado………….…..…Guitar Yograj Naik………………..…...….Sitar S. Harikumar……………….…….Violin Carlos Gonsalves………....Percussion Saish Deshpande…………....…..Tabla R. Subramanium…….…….....Ghattam Ramdas……………..…..….Mridangam Lenny Heredia………….…..Keyboards Colin D’Cruz………………...…….Bass Lester Godinho……….…….…..Drums >>> live jazz supported by www.jazzgoa.com <<< __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo