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Rez Abbasi

JD Considine talks to the guitarist Rez Abbasi on influences of Joe Pass and his own Indian-American origin ( The Globe and Mail ). As the saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer, the pianist Abbasi had grown up in an Indian-American environment, "how can something so not influence your music? Abbasi talks about how jazz musicians usually use Indian ragas as a kind of scale of they improvise, but that in Indian music the notes of a raga have different value, and there are specific rules for how these things have to be played. " Despite these influences, writes Considine, shine his music not too ostentatious ethnic timbres. He was looking more like "the essence of things," according to where his influences come from, "the essence to take that and apply it to my own thing."

JD Considine talks to the guitarist Rez Abbasi about his influences through Joe Pass as well as his South Asian heritage ( The Globe and Mail ). Like saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer, Abbasi grew up in a South Asian household, "so how could this not influence the music"? Abbasi talks about how jazz musicians usually work with ragas by just treating them as scales to improvise on, but that in Indian music "the notes of a raga are prioritized, with specific rules on how things are to be played". Despite such influences, writes Considine, his music does not "carry a sort of overt 'ethnic flavour'". Rather, he is "looking for the essence of stuff", is trying to feel where his influences are coming from, "take the essence of that, and apply it to my own thing".