Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Venue: Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center
Concert review by Sarah Rayani
On a very rainy evening, under an awning at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Asphalt Orchestra delighted and surprised a group of about 100 soggy New Yorkers. I came to hear about the avant-garde “street” jazz group through Sunny Jain, one of their 3 percussionists. Jain is a Punjabi American-born drummer, dhol player and composer who seamlessly fuses the two styles he grew up listening to — Jazz and Indian music. In addition to being a member of the Asphalt Orchestra and his own Sunnay Jain Quartet, he plays in a Baraat group – traditionally a North Indian wedding processional band – called Red Baraat.
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