The Dikeou Collection’s Ninth installment of the ‘Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series’ will feature a special performance by The Aakash Mittal Quartet on Friday, November 21, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Mark Sink, Photographer Extraordinaire will be spinning rare & classic records from the Collection’s extensive Vinyl Archive. Mittal and his band will play at 8:00 pm. This event will take place at Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax, 312 East Colfax Avenue, is open to the public and no cover charge. Light refreshments will be provided.
Hailed as “A fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” by the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Aakash Mittal is sculpting a dynamic voice that touches American and Indian traditions. His self-released album, Videsh, was regarded as, “point[ing] toward new possibilities in improvised music.” (Denver Post) As a composer and improviser, Mittal employs colorful dissonances, meditative silences, and angular rhythms expressing environments and spaces ranging from the American west to the dense streets of Kolkata.
The Aakash Mittal Quartet employs colorful dissonances, meditative silences, and angular rhythms expressing environments and spaces ranging from the American west to the dense streets of Kolkata. Recognized with an ASCAP Award for Adventurous programming, the quartet blurs the line between genres, sculpting improvisation and composition from jazz, western classical, and Indian traditions. These art forms coalesce to create “beautiful music that [is] at once soulful and exhilarating.” (The Telegraph, Kolkata).’
Mark Sink, Photographer, Curator and Teacher, has been and making a living from fine art photography since 1978. He is well known for his imagery made with the toy plastic camera, the Diana. Currently, also a reverse technology, he is producing collodion wet plate photographs.
The ‘Fresh Jazz and Crisp Vinyl Series’ focuses on jazz musicians living and working today, whose names are not yet embossed into history, but whose energy, wisdom, well worn instruments, and presence in the jazz scene are further defining our admiration for the life form, Jazz music. Selections from the vinyl archive will thus serve as a remembrance to all the jazz greats who came before the jazz musicians invited to play at this bi-monthly series.