Arun Luthra

Arun Luthra

Arun Luthra performing at the Kyoto Blue Note in 2011.
Background information
Genres Jazz, Post-bop, Indo jazz, World Music
Occupation(s) Saxophonist, Konnakol Artist, Composer, Arranger, Bandleader
Instruments Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Konnakol
Years active 1990 to present
Website www.SweetSoulSound.com

Arun Luthra is a jazz musician (saxophonist, konnakol artist, composer and arranger) based in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Early life

Arun Luthra was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. of an Indian father and a British mother. He began his formal music training in Belgium at the age of nine, studying European classical guitar. He eventually focused on the saxophone as his primary instrument and soon began an active performing and writing career.

Career

As a performer he has shared the stage and recorded with many of the greatest jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and pop artists in the world, including Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Dennis Irwin, Joe Chambers, Charli Persip, Bobby Porcelli, Portinho, Zé Renato, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Bobby Short, Lew Soloff, Bernard Purdie and Ray Vega.

The Arun Luthra Quartet has toured worldwide, including North America, Japan, the U.K. and Australia.

Luthra has also performed and/or studied with such notable Hindustani and Carnatic music masters as Pandit Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Krishnan Lalgudi & Vijayalakshmi Lalgudi, Pandit Karaikudi Subramaniam, Steve Gorn, Kiran Ahluwalia, Sufi singer Zila Khan, and the iconic 1970s Indian cross-over star Asha Puthli. He is one of a small group of American jazz musicians of Indian heritage who has further developed the incorporation of Indian classical music rhythms (both Hindustani and Carnatic) into jazz composition and improvisation.

As a recording artist Luthra has been featured as a band leader, composer, arranger and sideman. In addition to his career as a performer, composer, and arranger, Luthra is also a faculty member at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music[1] in New York alongside such jazz and world music greats as Bobby Sanabria, Reggie Workman, Billy Harper, Jane Ira Bloom and Joanne Brackeen.

Luthra was interviewed by Linus Wyrsch on "The Jazz Hole" for breakthruradio.com in January 2012 - Arun Luthra Interview by breakthruradio.com

Partial discography

References

  1. ↑ "Luthra, Arun". New School. Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
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