The National Centre for the Performing Arts presents a rare exploration of jod-ragas, a fascinating concept in Hindustani music that combines two distinct ragas with distinct personalities. This ...

Globally acclaimed pianist and composer Charu Suri only discovered jazz four years ago. Suri, who kicks off a four-night residency at Detroit’s Cliff Bell’s jazz club Thursday, March 7, had been a ...

In Indian classical music, a raga is a framework for improvisation within a specific set of melodies and motifs. Charu Suri, the first Indian-born jazz composer to play their own compositions at ...

For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

For the Grammy Awards red carpet on Sunday night, Mumbai-based designer Shruti Sancheti has custom designed ivory gown with a Nehru collar jacket ...

From Finding the Raga, which was published last month by New York Review Books. Every raga in North Indian music has a time, and sometimes a season, of performance: it can’t, or shouldn’t, be ...

PUTNEY — Next Stage’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence Arun Ramamurthy returns to Putney this weekend with his trio on Saturday and Brooklyn Raga Massive on Sunday. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Arun Ramamurthy Trio ...

Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Charu Suri sees her recent nomination not just as a personal milestone, but as a larger victory for Indian music in the global jazz conversation. “When I started ...