Shashank Das Quartet

Name: Shashank Das Quartet
Start: 2024-09-25T20:30:00+05:30
Location: The Piano Man Jazz Club

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC+05:30

Location

The Piano Man Jazz Club | New Delhi, DL

Shashank Das is an electric / double bass player from New Delhi, India having a diverse range of influences varying from old school Motown to modern jazz fusion and various other forms of music in between. Throughout his short career he has played with numerous rock, jazz and world musicians from India, Canada, Russia. He's been a student at Global music Institute for the last 2 years within which he has studied under various teachers from all around.

Aditya Dutta is a professional drummer based in Delhi. He is a part of the Pianoman In house band for Sunday Musician Mixers. Performing and collaborating as a sessions drummer in the Delhi independent music circuit for the past 1 year, He has actively played with Rainer pusch (Germany), Karan Khosla Trio, Aditi Dot., Rythem Bansal, Rie Ona (Japan), Ipshita Roy and various other musicians and acts from the city. His influences range from Jazz, Funk, R'n'B, Soul, Swing to Indian classical Music. He also serves as the drum faculty at various music schools across the city and actively provides private lessons to people keen on learning drums.

Siddharth Gautam hails from Delhi but has been based in Bangalore for the last few years and has been playing in and around the city with his Gypsy jazz act,the Django twins.
He has also played guitars on a series of malayalam and kannada films and sessioned regularly with some of the most established acts of the country such as thermal and a quarter, The bluefrog tribute band,opposite sex amongst others.

Chris Stiles is an American musician with over 25 years of experience performing in the US and Asia. He arrived in Delhi at the end of 2022 after spending five years on the jazz scene in Washington, DC. Acclaimed jazz writer Scott Yanow gave a glowing review for a 2020 streaming YouTube performance hosted by Blue House Productions in which he wrote, “The Chris Stiles Trio swings its way through straight ahead originals and a few obscurities, showing that there is still plenty of life to be found in bebop when it is played with enthusiasm, sophistication and creativity.” Through the years, Chris has had the privilege of performing with a number of renown artists, including the legendary R&B group The Temptations. In addition to performing in the United States, Chris also lived and performed in Asia for over 10 years. He co-founded and wrote music for the Dragon Jazz Quartet, with whom he toured and performed regularly across China. Also during his time in Asia, he had the pleasure of performing to packed stadiums in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore as a band member for some of Asia’s biggest stars, such as five-time MTV Asia Award winner Stefanie Sun and acclaimed actress and singer Karen Mok. Chris studied music at Arizona State University with virtuoso jazz pianist and professor Chuck Marohnic, as well as award-winning Chicago pianist Michael Kocour.