We regret to inform you that the concert of Crosscurrents Trio: Zakir Hussain, Dave Holland, Chris Potter, which was scheduled to take place on 18.11. 2024, has to be postponed. We have received word from the band's management that Zakir Hussain is unfortunately currently unable to travel due to health reasons and has had to cancel his ongoing US tour and the following European tour. We are negotiating for a new date, the concert will most likely take place in the second quarter of 2025. We will inform you about the new date in the next few days. Tickets remain valid, but if you wish to refund your tickets, you can do so until November 30, 2024 via GoOut. We apologise for the inconvenience. Your Rachot team
Zakir Hussain – Maestro of Indian tabla drums
A personality of epochal significance to modern jazz, World Music and Northern Indian classical music. Zakir Hussain co-founded the revolutionary Shakti line-up with John McLaughlin, a follow-up to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, led drumming summits with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, and initiated dozens of musical projects with luminaries such as Charles Lloyd, George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma, Van Morrison, Airto Moreira, Billy Cobham, Mickey Hart and others. He comes from an elite Indian musical lineage – his father was Alla Rakha, a long-time bandmate of Ravi Shankar. He last performed in Prague with the Masters Of Percussion ensemble.
Dave Holland – The Jazz Mohican
Picked up from the UK by Miles Davis in the midst of an engagement at the famous Ronnie Scott’s club where Dave Holland sharpened his jazz spurs as a “house bassist” in the late 1960s, he soon became part of jazz history for the first time. He recorded three immortal classics with Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. He has since gone on to make the genre’s history many more times, both as a collaborator and as a bandleader. Indeed, Holland soon discovered that in addition to his ability to work in the service of musical visionaries of the caliber of Davis, Henderson, Hancock, Corey, Brecker, Metheny and Braxton, he also had a gift as a bandleader. As early as 1972, he recorded his Quartet for ECM, which has appeared in many personnel changes throughout Holland’s career. He could also metamorphose into, say, a quintet or an entire big band at once, always with enviable personnel.
Chris Potter – The greatest saxophonist of his generation
Chris Potter, currently one of the world’s most celebrated saxophonists, draws on the playing of the greatest masters of the saxophone, to which he adds his distinctive input and inexhaustible improvisational invention. He has worked with a long list of major jazz artists, both “classical” and progressive, including Ray Brown, Paul Motian, Jim Hall, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland, Patricia Barber and Dave Douglas. Chris Potter has won numerous jazz awards. His 1998 album Vertigo was named Jazz Record of the Year by the New York Times and Jazziz magazine, and he was nominated for a Grammy Award for his collaboration with pianist Joanne Brackeen.
