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Listen Now: Apex: Rudresh Mahanthappa And Bunky Green In Concert

Rudresh Mahanthappa (left) And Bunky Green perform with Apex on the Quad stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.
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Rudresh Mahanthappa (left) And Bunky Green perform with Apex on the Quad stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.

Rudresh Mahanthappa And Bunky Green, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2011

August 8, 2011Hear a matchup of two sizzling and sinuous alto saxophonists, and the touring band it spawned.

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

Rudresh Mahanthappa (left) And Bunky Green perform with Apex on the Quad stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.
Erik Jacobs for NPR

Rudresh Mahanthappa (left) And Bunky Green perform with Apex on the Quad stage during the Newport Jazz Festival.

Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vernice "Bunky" Green first met as student and mentor — as musicians over 35 years apart in age often do. But years later, when they first took the stage together, they instantly knew they had to make an album. Hence the 2010 record Apex, a matchup of the two sizzling and sinuous alto saxophonists, and the touring band it spawned. Mahanthappa and Green reprise that tag-team effort in this set from the Quad Stage at Newport.

Personnel: Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone; Bunky Green, alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell, piano; Francois Moutin, bass; Damion Reid, drums.

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The Newport Jazz Festival, was founded by jazz pianist George Wein in 1954 as the first outdoor music festival of its kind devoted entirely to jazz, and is now universally acknowledged as the grandfather of all jazz festivals. For information on attending this year's Festival, visit their official website.

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