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Grand Union Reviews

London Jazz review of Grand Union Orchestra Dir. Tony Haynes. If Paradise…

(Queen Elizabeth Hall, September 25th 2011. Review by Adam Tait)

“Tony Haynes, composer and the Director of the Grand Union Orchestra, describes If Paradise… as ‘a kind of musical journey – but through emotions’, and there is indeed a constant sense of progression in the music…

the tranquilly seated blind sitar player Baluji Shrivastav, balanced and entirely immersed in the music. His calm presence, juxtaposed against the feverish bursts of animation from the drum kit, is the image which will stay longest in the mind.”

 

To read the full review, please go to:

http://londonjazz.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-grand-union-orchestra-if.html

 

 

All About Jazz review of Grand Union Orchestra If Paradise Red Gold 2011

By CHRIS MAY, Published: October 6, 2011

 

“From the east, the line-up includes two angel-voiced Bangladeshi singers, Lucy Rahman and Akash Sultan; tabla player Yousuf Ali Khan, also from Bangladesh; and, from India, sitarist Baluji Shrivastav. They are joined, from the London jazz scene, by saxophonists Tony Kofi, Phil Todd and Louise Elliott; trumpeters Paul Jayasinha, Claude Deppa and Kevin Robinson; trombonists Tim Smart, Ros Davies, John Kenny and Haynes; guitarist Gerry Hunt; drummer Brian Abrahams; and bass guitarist Keith Morris (tragically, since killed in a hit and run auto accident). The band includes an unusually high proportion of gifted soloists…

The disc is rounded out by a 13-minute instrumental, ‘The Radiance Of A Thousand Suns,’ a showcase for Shrivastav, Todd and Jayasinha. One of Haynes' first experiments with Indian ragas, its title is taken from a report, quoting the Bhagavad Gita, given by a scientist watching the first test of the atomic bomb.”

 

To read the full review, please go to: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40473

 

 

 

INNER VISION ORCHESTRA Fundraising Concert  Friday April 15

 

Baluji Shrivastav - sitar+tabla.

 

Takashi Kikuchi viola.  

 

James Risdon recorder

 

Abbi Baker piano

 

Peter Bosher flute

 

Sheetal Singh Sitara harmonium

 

Feresteh songs from Turkey and Iran

 

Seema Srivastav songs from Bengal

 

 

Support Baluji Music Foundation raise money to help blind people make music.

 

Open your EARS to some of the best sounds in the world!

 

Tickets £15.   Superb Indian supper available £12

 

Doors open 7pm.

 

 

THE SHAFTESBURY TAVERN 534 HORNSEY ROAD N.19 3QN

 

Nearest stations- Crouch End and Upper Holloway. Archway Underground. Finsbury Park.

 

On 41 Bus route between Archway Tube and Crouch End.

 

 

Christmas Plant Sale and

Community Event at Sunnyside gardens. Click poster  below >>