Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Pannalal Ghosh, Nityanand Haldipur, Bela Bartok, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Joe Lovano, Paul Motian, Dave Holland, Egberto Gismonte, Jan Garbarek, Bhimsen Joshi, J.S. Bach
Carl Clements (saxophones/flutes/bamboo flute) received a BM in Jazz Composition and Arranging from the Berklee College of Music in 1987, an MFA in Jazz Performance from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990, and completed a year of study in the DMA program in World Music at the New England Conservatory. He has studied North Indian classical music on the bansuri (North Indian bamboo flute) since 1989 with Dave Philipson, Amiya Dasgupta, Steve Gorn, Devendra Murdeshwar, George Ruckert, Peter Row, and Nityanand Haldipur.
He has released four CDs with the eclectic jazz group Crosscurrent, and he is featured on numerous other recordings. His recently released CD of his original compositions for jazz quartet, entitled Forth and Back is available at www.cdbaby.com. He has performed at jazz festivals in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Dubai, and Boston, including performances with James Newton, Natraj, Divya, and Crosscurrent. During his frequent trips to India to study bansuri with Nityanand Haldipur, he has played with many of India's finest jazz musicians, including Adrian D'Souza, Karl Peters, Sanjay Divecha, Louis Banks, Rangit Barot, Amit Heri, Harmeet Manseta, and many others.
Currently living in New York, he is an active performer in the jazz and world music scenes, and is working on his dissertation for his PhD in ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center.
You can read a nice write-up of the album Forth and Back at http://www.bagatellen.com/row.html
Thanks for your support! We're just starting out and hope to get a fan base good enough to start investing in our music. We're gonna try our best to not disappoint you with our music.
We need all the support we can get so that we have a chance to be signed by a minor record label atleast. That way we could provide better recorded songs.
So if you liked our music... refer us to your friends(needless to say we would greatly appreciate it).
Hi Carl! Got to know about you from Adrian. Am interested to meet you when you come to mumbai. We can jam together. Can you give me the contact of nityanand haldipur?
hey carl, i actually leave for boston on the 15th so i won't see you. but yes, we should definitely get in touch when you're back in the states and go get some thai food or something!
Hey Carl, Happy New Year! I'm actually in Mumbai at the moment until tomorrow evening and I've been trying to get in touch with Dhruv and hope to be able to meet him today or tomorrow. I'd hoped to go down to New York more often but was only there a couple of times this last year. Hope to be there more often this year. If you're in Mumbai please call me. I'll send you a private message with my number.
Hey Carl, soon you will be back in the Bombay madness hee hee. I will get back to you real soon about the NY gig. Russ's friend Knut Haugsoen is here and we will be doing a gig togeather in the 1st week of jan hopefully. Ok will talk soon bro.
What's happening Carl?
I've no idea when I'll be up in the city, but I'll be in Mumbai in Nov/Dec, would love to play, catch up.
Hope you're great!
- Ravi
HI Carl!! Thank you so much for the message!! Yes, I' so excited and can't wait to meet and play with you!! I just met Lawrence and here about your situation. I will chant for it!! Please take care and see you soon!!
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