Percussionist

GRAMMY-nominated singer Priya Darshini joins forces with her all-star band at Jazz Underground at Jaffe Drive, blending Indian classical, electronica, ambient, and jazz into an intimate and captivating experience. Priya Darshini's debut at Lincoln Center showcases a blend of diverse musical traditions, virtuosic performance, and unique instrumentation skillfully intertwined creating her own distinctive sound.

Priya Darshini

The Underground at Jaffe Drive

The trio of Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily first coalesced in 2018 in New York City; an unplanned, improvised performance that revealed their natural chemistry. Iyer, a pianist, composer, and MacArthur “Genius,” currently finds himself at the center of the galaxy of improvised music, guiding a storied career through continued evolution with new ideas and new collaborators. He finds worthy peers in Ismaily, a largely self-taught composer and musician who has mastered the electric and double bass, guitar, banjo, accordion, flute, drums, as well as various percussion and electronic instruments; and Pakistan-born, Brooklyn-based Aftab, the ascendant ambient musician and vocalist who was awarded the 2022 Grammy for Best Global Music Performance and is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow and a recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Music. Their album Love in Exile is a sparsely recorded synthesis of their alchemical improvisation, an intricate yet minimalist universe built on a handful of Urdu couplets that, as Iyer says, “reveals not just the melody but the birth of a song.”

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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile

McCarter Theatre Center

Grammy Award–winning vocalist Arooj Aftab makes Texas debut with the Love in Exile Trio, featuring two of her most trusted collaborators: polymath pianist Vijay Iyer and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. Transforming sound into sculpture, the trio creates lush, haunting collaborative soundscapes of meditation and yearning. Their quietly powerful, almost telepathic communication lends itself to experimentation and creates a sound as described by Aftab as “about self-exile, and the search for freedom and identity, and finding it through love and music.”

Love In Exile

Bass Concert Hall

The brilliant jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, Grammy-winning singer Arooj Aftab, and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily continue their brilliant, beautiful conversation. The trio met in New York City and dubbed themselves Love in Exile. Together they’ve forged a singular voice that takes their distinct backgrounds and vast histories of collaboration as a starting point. Individually, they’re extraordinary musicians who see through boundaries between genres and cultures without abandoning the particulars of either. Together, though, they’re artists painting in tandem, their music developing from wisps of piano and shimmers of texture, with Aftab’s voice whispering along the edges and commanding center stage—all without sacrificing their keen sense of interdependence. This is delicate, imaginative music defined by a sense of timeless beauty and sudden surprise.

The John Anson Ford Theatre

The Stone at The New School serves as an artist-centric home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists, where they can perform what they want without any interference. With concerts every Tuesday through Saturday evening, The Stone at The New School continues the tradition of the landmark non-profit performance space founded in 2005 by Artistic Director John Zorn, within a greatly improved space.



The Stone at The New School Presents: Eyvind Kang - Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age

Arnhold Hall

The Stone at The New School serves as an artist-centric home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists, where they can perform what they want without any interference. With concerts every Tuesday through Saturday evening, The Stone at The New School continues the tradition of the landmark non-profit performance space founded in 2005 by Artistic Director John Zorn, within a greatly improved space.

The Stone at The New School Presents: Zoh Amba

Sunny Jain (of Red Baraat) reimagines the soundtrack of his childhood—Jain Bhajans (devotional songs), progressive rock, and jazz. Drums, voice, and ethereal soundscapes coalesce in this meditative, transcendent evening of music.

Shahzad Ismaily

Percussionist

Events

Past events

Jul 14, 2024

Priya Darshini · Jazz at Lincoln Center

Oct 5, 2023

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile · McCarter Theatre Center

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