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Miles From India at Grand Performances
The performance tries to reconcile disparate musical cultures and sometimes succeeds.

Two compelling forces, improvisation and surging rhythms, drove Sunday's Miles From India performance, which opened the 2008 Grand Performances season at California Plaza with an exploration of the commonalities shared by jazz and Indian classical musics.

Nearly 20 musicians took part in the event, which was centered on the recent Miles From India, a two-CD recording produced by composer-arranger Bob Belden as a “grand gesture at reconciliation between disparate musical cultures bound together by a universal truth. Music."

The soloing jazz players -- principally Carter, keyboardists Robert Irving and Adam Holzman, alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and, especially, trumpeter Wallace Roney -- sounded more comfortable, regardless of the setting.

Unrestricted by the specificity of a classical system, as the Indian players were, they found inspiration in all of the material's varied aspects. But they too seemed most liberated in the electric numbers, coming together with the Indian players in a fashion that affirmed Belden's search for the “universal truth" of music.

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