CONGRATULATIONS
to Fareed Haque for being nominated "Best Jazz Entertainer
of the Year"
in the upcoming 31st Annual Chicago Music Awards!
Voted #1 World Guitarist by the Guitar Player Magazine Readers poll.
Available in a variety of formats from solo to 3 piece to larger band, workshops and seminars are available too.
Featuring Indian music masters Indrajit Banerjee on sitar and Subreta Bhattacharya on tabla.
See why the readers of Guitar Player Magazine named Fareed Haque Best World Guitarist.
“Hindustani music swings!” says Fareed Haque, leader of the Flat Earth Ensemble (and member of Garaj Mahal). A jazz and classical guitar virtuoso, Haque's latest project is the culmination of years of study and innovation, a blending of Hindustani folk rhythms and groove jazz. “All my life I’ve loved the rhythms of South Asian folk music – the folk music from northwestern India and Pakistan, that is the basis for much of what is today called “Bollywood” film music, Qawwali, Bhangra. All of these are styles of South Asian music that GROOVE with hypnotic, high energy, danceable rhythms...much the same as the African-American gospel that is the basis of so much popular American music". In South Asia, as on the South Side of Chicago, ‘charismatic music’ – music that builds to an emotional and many would say spiritual climax – is at the core of traditional culture and the basis for much in popular culture...simply put Punjabi folk music is to India what gospel is to America – funky, fun, danceable and spiritual.
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Recent #1 on Jazz Week World Charts!
Fareed
Haque has toured all over the world playing many types of music. He tours
with his projects Garaj Mahal and as the leader of The Flat Earth Ensemble.
He has toured and recorded with many legendary jazz musicians, including
Sting, Zakir Hussain, George Brooks, Paquito D’Rivera, Frank Bungarten,
Goran Ivanovic, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Frank Vignola,
Frank Bungarten, Stephen Perkins / Willy Waldman’s Banyan, and many
others. While he is mostly known in the progressive jam and jazz worlds,
in June he did a tour with Frank Bungarten in Germany playing classical
music. Our main mission for events is to have him perform the music about
which he is most passionate. His work resides in an Indo Jazz setting
where Mr. Haque draws on his ethnic background to forge new musical territory,
crossing over classical Indian music with American Jazz and Funk. Like
Shakti and The Mahavishnu Orchestra before him, Fareed Haque has crafted
music that is reflective of his Pakistani roots introducing a joyous,
grooving, funk and jazz infused approach.
Now
on Owl Studios, this amazing guitar player is bending the lines between
jazz, world beat, and jam music. Well known from years of touring with
Garaj Mahal, his audience base is drawn from jam friendly college students
to serious button down jazz cats, to fans of East Indian and ethnic music.
Mr. Haque is Professor of Music at Northern Illinois University and has been commissioned to compose and perform: the Lahara concerto commissioned by the Chicago Symphonietta, and a guitar concerto from the Eye of a Hurricane commissioned by Fulcrum Point Ensemble.
His live performances appear in a wide spectrum of settings including Jam and Rock festivals, jazz houses, chamber orchestra, symphonic appearances, and clubs, colleges, and universities across the globe. Some artists claim to be competent at multiple styles, but Fareed Haque’s experiences illustrate him as one of the true Renaissance musicians on the guitar.
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