Arun Luthra

Arun Luthra is a jazz musician (saxophonist, composer, and arranger) based in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Early life

Arun Luthra was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. of an Indian father and a British mother. He began his formal music training in Belgium at the age of nine, studying European classical guitar. He eventually focused on the saxophone as his primary instrument and soon began an active performing and writing career.

Career

As a performer he has shared the stage and recorded with many of the greatest jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and pop artists in the world, including Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Dennis Irwin, Joe Chambers, Charli Persip, Bobby Porcelli, Portinho, Zé Renato, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Bobby Short, Lew Soloff, Bernard Purdie, and Ray Vega.

Luthra has also performed and/or studied with such notable Hindustani and Karnatic music masters as Pandit Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Krishnan Lalgudi & Vijayalakshmi Lalgudi, Pandit Karaikudi Subramaniam, Steve Gorn, Kiran Ahluwalia, Sufi singer Zila Khan, and the iconic 1970s Indian cross-over star Asha Puthli.

As a recording artist Luthra has been featured as a band leader, composer, arranger, and sideman. In addition to his career as a performer, composer, and arranger, Luthra is also a faculty member at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music^[1] in New York alongside such jazz and world music greats as Bobby Sanabria, Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, and Junior Mance.

Partial discography

Arun Luthra's Svaha "Tangibility" (SaReGaMa Records)
Arun Luthra & Rachel Eckroth "Louder Than Words" (SaReGaMa Records)
Red Baraat "Chaal Baby" (Sinj Records)
David Rozenblatt "Music for Dwight Rhoden's Ballet 'Othello'" (Mishigas Music)
The Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra "Transplants" (Ruzztone Music)
Quimbombó "Conga Eléctrica" (Testa Dura)
Björkestra "Enjoy" (Koch Jazz)
Russ Spiegel Sextet "Chimera" (Steeplechase)
The New York Funk Exchange "Funkonomic Stimulus Plan" (Funk In Da Trunk Records)
Billy Fox "The Uncle Wiggly Suite" (CleanFeed)
Mosaïc Orchestra "The Journey" (Blue Lemon Records)
Karl Wenninger's Wake Up Call "Wake Up Call" (Bancroft Records)
Broadway's Greatest Gift - "Carols For A Cure" Vol. 9 (Rock-It Science Records)

References

1. ^ "Luthra, Arun". New School. http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/faculty.aspx?id=11054. Retrieved 2010-11-13. 

External links

• Arun Luthra's web site
• Arun Luthra on YouTube
• Arun Luthra on Twitter
• Arun Luthra on Facebook
• Arun Luthra on Myspace

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