Xander Naylor: Following Energies
Music, like a story or a painting, will many times be inspired by real life experiences and then the artist's imagination takes over, giving listeners a window into the artist's soul. Composer, guitarist, leader, and Burlington, Vermont native Xander Naylor gives audiences a window into his soul, crossbreeding introspection with modern jazz improvisation and North Indian Hindustani classical music, drawing on over fifteen years of study with tabla maestro Samir Chatterjee. He reveals, "I’ve been studying with Samir since 2008. I was magnetically drawn to him when I attended one of his masterclasses at The New School. I had heard his tabla playing on a record and was immediately drawn to the sound and the depth of its spirit, which was unlike anything I had heard." "I couldn’t quite put my finger on it," he confesses. "It’s interesting, he plays tabla, I play guitar; it doesn’t always happen like that. The virtuosity of his playing is one (huge) th...