The hits keep on coming for Rudresh Mahanthappa and his CD Kinsmen. This time, he is featured on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, in an extensive interview with Terry Gross. You can listen to that along with Howard Mandel’s NPR piece HERE.

Also this week, Peter Margasak in the Chicago Reader called Kinsmen “a paradigm shift, accomplishing his most dramatic and insightful fusion yet of jazz and Indian classical music. It delivers a downright ecstatic jolt, with Mahanthappa’s bright tone gaining energy and depth in the presence of the more stately improvisations of the great Kadri Gopalnath…”