Most saxophonists play their instruments standing up, but today, Prasant Radhakrishnan is sitting down. His legs are crossed, his back is upright; the saxophone droops like a brass pipe from his mouth ...

In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

Prasant Radhakrishnan, founder of the critically acclaimed Carnatic jazz group VidyA, has been traveling the world playing saxophone in the traditional South Indian Carnatic classical and jazz styles ...

The spirit can appear in many a musical guise, but there's no mistaking when musicians are feeling the call. Conceptually, the graceful Carnatic jazz of VidyA and the volatile free-form flights of the ...

No one is ever going to mistake Boston for Chennai, the sprawling South Indian city on the Bay of Bengal that hosts the Madras Music Season, a cornucopian festival featuring hundreds of Carnatic ...

VidyA naturally expresses the essence of Carnatic music and jazz through a unified trio of tenor saxophone, acoustic bass and drums. Drawing on the deep musical influences and perspectives of Prasant ...

In this one-day celebration of Indian music and dance, first-generation Indian American artists Prasant Radhakrishnan (Carnatic saxophone) and Malini Srinivasan (Bharatnatyam dance) offer their art ...

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