{"id":68269,"date":"2016-12-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68269"},"modified":"2016-11-29T01:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T05:18:05","slug":"rez-abbasis-invocation-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68269","title":{"rendered":"Rez Abbasi&#8217;s Invocation (Performance 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 15   08pm to 09:30pm<br \/>\nAsia Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/invocation.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[68269]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/invocation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Invocation is Pakistani-born jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi\u2019s sextet featuring pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. In this performance, the group unveils a new project that explores Carnatic classical music from Southern India through the idiom of jazz. This is the final installment in a triptych made by Abbasi that puts a jazz lens on the musical traditions of South Asia; Invocation previously explored Hindustani music and qawwali in a pair of critically acclaimed recordings.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/rez-abbasis-invocation-performance-2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 15 08pm to 09:30pm Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68270,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68269\/revisions\/68270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}