Reviews
"'Looking Out, Looking In' opens the album with Abassi sustaining notes of a broken arpeggio....With what could be considered spare instrumentation, each player works to fill out the sound and stretch beyond his role.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Mahanthappa, like his occasional collaborator trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, is heralding a new reality in jazz, where the music exists on equal footing with another hearty tradition, and something genuinely new results.", "Mahanthappa's compositions draw on the cyclical sense of time and melody of South Indian music, and the improvisations develop a hypnotic groove....The rhythmic and melodic focus never flags for an instant...", Ranked #25 in Jazztimes' "Top 50 Cds of 2009."
