From US,with Jazz

If your imagination takes you inside a smoky downtown Manhattan bar filled with dark-suited patrons whenever you put on a jazz record,listening to Freddie Bryant and Gilad Dobrecky might just take you out of there.

If your imagination takes you inside a smoky downtown Manhattan bar filled with dark-suited patrons whenever you put on a jazz record,listening to Freddie Bryant and Gilad Dobrecky might just take you out of there.

However,the duo was surprised when their performance at a concert in Kolkata a week ago had the organisers screaming for an encore of the Indian jazz.

Were the jazz ambassadors of the US Department of State, said percussionist Dobrecky at the Taj Umed,a little before a media interaction on Wednesday afternoon.

Bryant and Dobrecky will be performing at Natarani and NID. They have been playing together for almost two decades,taking time off from their own separate bands. Bryant plays with Kaleidoscope,while Bobrecky plays with two bands,On 3 and Wildflower.

Last week,they performed in Kolkata and IIT-Kharagpur. Before that,they were in Mandalay and Yangon,Myanmars two biggest cities. Till date,they have traveled far and wide44 countries on last count, said Bryant,who carries three guitars for a performance,including a classical guitar,in which he has a masters from the Yale School of Music. I dont stick to the blues or jazz scales; I do whatever works, he said,explaining that there are different forms in the genre from American to Latino,African and touches of flamenco.

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