Sunny Jain Quartet

Harlem in the Himalayas

Friday February 12, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of
Member Price: $16.20

From the resounding hall of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, to the intimate setting of Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, to the massive applause on festival stages in India, Sunny Jain is a highly respected drummer, composer, and educator.  Born to Punjabi immigrant parents and raised in Rochester, New York, Sunny has become an Indian-American musical trailblazer.

Sunny plays the indigenous drum of Punjab, dhol,  and made his professional debut playing the instrument in the first ever Indian Broadway show, Bombay Dreams (2004).  He has since gone on to perform with Masala Bhangra fitness guru, Sarina Jain ("The Indian Jane Fonda"), jazz legend Dewey Redman with Asha Puthli, and will make his Hollywood debut playing dhol in the movie Accidental Husband, starring Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, and Isabella Rossellini. Sunny also leads Red Baraat, a one-of-a-kind dhol 'n' brass band melding the infectious North Indian rhythm Bhangra with funk, soca, and dramatic improvisatory conducting. His Sunny Jain Collective has been touted as a leading voice for the new music Indo-Jazz.