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Today's music back-up plan: Hindustani Sitar Recital – Singing Strings Saturday, April 08, 2017 4:00:00 PM Venue: Allen Library Civic Auditorium, 300 N. Allen Drive, Allen TX 75013 Admission: ICMC Members: Free General: $30 Student: $20 Pandit Kushal Das Sitar Ramdas Palsule Tabla Pandit Kushal Das is one of the iconic maestros of Indian Classical Music across the globe. He plays Sitar and Surbahar. He is a Top-grade musician at All India Radio and Doordarshan. Kushal Das was born in a highly enriched musical family of Kolkata. His grandfather Late Shri Bimalchandra Das was a renowned ‘Esraj’ player and his father & uncle were both sitarists of high repute. His father Late Shri Sailen Das was a disciple of Late Pt. Lakhsman Bhattacharya & Bharat-Ratna Pt. Ravi Shankar. His uncle Late Shri Santanu Das was a disciple of Swar-Samrat Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. He started his training at a tender age of five under the guidance of his father and uncle. Later he received intensive & rigorous training in advanced sitar techniques and the art of creating music, under the affectionate guidance of Pt. Sanjoy Banerjee. Kushal is also proud for having the privilege of learning from great musicians like Late Pt. Ajoy Sinha Roy (a disciple of Ud. Allauddin Khan), vocal lessons from Late Pt. Manas Chakraborty and Late Pt. Ramkrishna Basu. Kushal Das has performed at all major music festivals and music conferences in India. He has been touring all over the world extensively for past two decades. He has many commercial albums to his credit. Ramdas Palsule has been recognized as one of the most senior disciples of world famous Tabla Maestro Taalyogi Pandit Suresh Talwalkar. Being an accomplished soloist as well as a versatile accompanist, he has performed widely in all the eminent music festivals of India. Outside India, he has performed practically all over the world including USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Africa and the gulf countries. His Tabla accompaniment ranges from distinguished vocalists to prominent instrumentalists and also to renowned Kathak dancers of the country. He has accompanied with almost all the top notch musicians & dancers of today. Besides performances, Ramdas imparts training to the younger generation of students of Tabla. He is also appointed as a Guru in the Center for Performing Arts of the University of Pune, for last almost 20 years. Ramdas has been instrumental in conception of AVARTAN GURUKUL, which has now commenced this year in Pune..Stalwarts like Taalyogi Pt. Suresh Talwalkar, Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar, Pt. Uday Bhawalkar, Pandita Shama Bhate , Pandita sucheta Bhide Chapekar & Ramdas himself are the Gurus of this Gurukul.

If anyone besides me was planning on going to Austin to hear Henry Threadgill, there is a last minute cancellation/postponement. We regret to inform you this Friday's Master Class and Saturday's Concert with Henry Threadgill has been postponed until further notice due to traveling logistics caused by Delta Airlines' mass flight cancellation (due to the severe thunderstorm this past Wednesday in Atlanta - more info). We tried everything in our capacity to re-book new flights but it simply was not possible to find one for this weekend.Therefore, on behalf of Liminal Sound Series and Epistrophy Arts, we would like to apologize for the cancellation, especially to those of you who have already made travel and accommodation plans. Unfortunately, these were circumstances which were beyond our control.Your ticket will continue to be valid for the new dates (TBA shortly).

Brother Jack McDuff, Screamin' (Prestige)

Thanks--it sounds like an event worth planning for and attending.

Mary Lou Williams and Barbara Carroll, Ladies of Jazz

Spiritualizing the Senses is an all instrumental album.

Sound quality is good. Recorded at the Cork and Bib on Long Island by William Glaser. While you are at it, the Silveto release Spiritualizing the Senses (with Ralph Moore and Eddie Harris) is quite good as well--probably his best post-Blue Note recording.

Horace Silver released that himself in the 1980s on LP. I bought a copy from him in between sets and he autographed it. I do not believe it has been released on CD.

Any comments on the logistics of this festival? Can you walk from venue to venue or do you need a car to get around? How are the venues? Good sound? Are they overcrowded? Is admission smooth and easy?

Ibrahim Maalouf, Wind

I think you mean Terence Blanchard. Roy Hargrove is from Dallas and used to play around here fairly often, but it's been a long time. I'd like to hear the recording the Caravan of Dreams made of the weekend engagement in 1988 where David Newman led a group with Roy on trumpet, plus Larry Willis, Walter Booker and Idris Mohammad. I recollect attending two nights.

Where's that bullet train when you need it.

Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Eric Harland, Sangam (ECM)

Roy Hargrove & Antonio Hart, The Tokyo Sessions

I am not able to go to Austin to see David Murray that weekend (but Henry Threadgill, I'm going). I have seen David Murray twice recently, in January and last October. He sounds good.

That is a great record. Perfect pianist.

Otis Taylor, Fantasizing About Being Black (Trance Blues Festival)

Sidney Bechet and Albert Nicholas, Creole Reeds (London pressing of Riverside Release) Bobby Hackett, Creole Cookin' (Verve) The Gary McFarland Orchestra with Bill Evans (Verve)

Illinois Jacquet, Port Of Rico (Clef)

Your secret identity as Bob Dylan's mother has been revealed.

Shouldn't a Dylan standards record be named Hubris? I'm not sure if it was an insult or a joke, but someone gave me that Dylan Christmas CD for Christmas--definitively the worst piece of musical sh-t I've ever heard.

Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica From the Cape Verde Islands, 1973-1988

Mohan Bhatt played in Allen a couple of years ago--a very fine concert!

April 14, 2017: Stanley Clarke, One World Theater, Austin April 15, 2017: David Murray and Kahil El Zabar, Kick Butt Coffee Music and Booze, Austin April 18, 2017: Cyrus Chestnut, Bates Recital Hall, Austin April 20, 2017: Terence Blanchard, South on Main, Little Rock, Arkansas April 21, 2017: Jason Moran, Chris Walker, Denardo Coleman, Discovery Green, Houston April 21, 2017: Terence Blanchard, University of Texas at Dallas April 22, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Cullen Theater, Houston April 23, 2017: Terence Blanchard, Liberty Hall, Tyler April 23, 2017: Rachella Parks, Main Street Arts Festival, Fort Worth April 26-27, 2017: Bill Frisell, Continental Club, Austin April 26-27, 2017: Amina Claudine Myers, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston April 28, 2017: Dejohnette Coltrane Garrison, Denton Arts and Jazz Festival April 28, 2017: Mokoomba (Zimbabwe), Joey Alexander Trio, Pedrito Martinez, Astral Project, Trumpet Mafia, Leroy Jones, Jamil Sharif, David L. Harris, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro, Mr. Sipp, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 29, 2017: Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya, Kenny Neal, Pedrito Martinez, Delfeayo Marsalis with Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival April 30, 2017: Wessell Warmdaddy Anderson Quartet, Joe Louis Walker, Little Freddie King, Lil Buck Sinegal with Barbara Lynn, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 4, 2017: Eric Gales, Antone's, Austin May 4, 2017: Lee Konitz Quartet, Cedric Burnside Project, A Salute to Louis Armstrong featuring Nicholas Payton, Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project with Roman Diaz, Charlie Gabriel, Irwin Mayfield, Donald Harrison, Changui Guantanamo, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5,, 2017: Terence Blanchard E-Collective, Jason Marsalis, Louis Ford, Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project with Roman Diaz, Alvin Youngblood Hart, William Bell, Changui Guantanamo,New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5, 2017: Vijay Iyer, Cullen Theater, Houston May 5, 2017: Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro-Latin Jazz Octet, Carver Center, San Antonio May 6, 2017: Lucky Peterson, Antone's, Austin May 6, 2017: Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Indrayuddh Majumdar, Gourisankar Karmaker (Sarod Jugalbandi), University Theater, University of Texas at Dallas May 6, 2017: Kenny Barron Trio, SF Jazz Collective Plays the Music of Miles Davis, Henry Butler, New Orleans Groove Masters (featuring Herlin Riley, Jason Marsalis, and Shannon Powell), Cynthia Sayer, Pedrito Martinez Rumba Project with Roman Diaz, Septeto Santiaguero, Changui Guantanamo, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 7, 2017: Chucho Valdes Quintet, Ellis Marsalis, Buddy Guy, Nicholas Payton, Walter Wolfman Washington, Bill Summers, Dayme Arocena, Khari Allen Lee with Davy Mooney, Septeto Santiaguero, Changui Guantanamo, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 10, 2017: Branford Marsalis, Dallas City Performance Hall May 14, 2017: Shri. P Unnikrishnan, Bates Recital Hall, Austin May 20, 2017: Duwayne Burnside, Antone's, Austin May 23, 2017: Buddy Guy, Walton Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas June 7, 2017: Helen Sung, Cezanne, Houston June 10, 2017: Nishat Khan and Gourisankar, Bates Recital Hall, Austin June 16, 2017: Jean Luc Ponty, Granada Theater, Dallas June 16, 2017: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Norman, Oklahoma June 17, 2017: Jean Luc Ponty, One World Theater, Austin June 17, 2017: Eric Gales, Oak Point Amphitheater, Plano June 23, 2017: Lucky Peterson, Granada Theater, Dallas June 24, 2017: Lucky Peterson, Fitzgerald's, Houston August 12, 2017: Henry Threadgill, Scottish Rite Theater, Austin August 12, 2017: Anupama Bhagwat (sitar), Jones Hall, University of St. Thomas, Houston October 8, 2017: Lila Downs, Tobin Center, San Antonio October 19, 2017: Robert Cray, Paramount Theater, Austin October 20, 2017: Robert Cray, Majestic Theater, Dallas November 9, 2017: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin November 11, 2017: Hariprasad Chaurasia, Austin November 30, 2017: John McLaughlin, Paramount Theater, Austin

Kadri Gopalnath, James Newton, P. Sriniivasan, Southern Brothers