City’s jazz musicians get together

Jazz enthusiasts of Kolkata have joined hands to present jazz music on a regular basis. Guitarists, percussionists, bassists, vocalists and several other musicians have planned to pay tribute to legends like Miles Davis,

Duke Ellington

,

John Coltrane

, Charlie Parker and others.

Bodhisattwa Ghosh of Bodhisattwa Trio is very excited about the project. “We’ve played originals nationally. But in Kolkata, the scope is limited. Now that we have all got together, we expect to have a good time. We recently held a gig, where Chennai-based Dutch saxophone player Maarten Visser joined us. It was a lovely experience,” he said.

Besides Bodhisattwa, other musicians who are part of this project include

Amyt Datta

, Bumpy (Mainak Nag chowdhury), Gabu (Gaurab Chatterjee), Premjit Dutta, Akash Ganguly and Pradumno Singh Manot.

Gabu, too, is very optimistic about the new association. “We are not from New York or

New Orleans

. We have our own jazz music and we play that. With this association, we will definitely pay a tribute to the music scene of ’60s and ’70s Kolkata. We have our own interpretation of jazz music. Interestingly, a lot of new venues have come up. People there insist on playing live jazz. Because of these places, we are getting new platforms to play. A lot of new music lovers are also coming up to us. That is a very optimistic scene. We all love jazz and it will be great if we can bring jazz music back to this city,” he said.