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News

Upcoming events in the US, 3rd to 9th November 2011

Talk at Smith College, 3rd November

http://www.smith.edu/kahninstitute/chronicle/fall2011/news_events.php

In conversation with Christopher Lydon, Asia Society, NYC, 5th November

http://asiasociety.org/calendars/inaugural-asian-arts-ideas-forum-chindia-dialogues-part-i

Amit Chaudhuri Band concert, Asia Society, NYC, 5th November
http://asiasociety.org/calendars/amit-chaudhuri-band-and-qian-yi-and-du-yun-quartet

Panel discussion on Tagore, Asia Society, 6th November
http://asiasociety.org/calendars/inaugural-asian-arts-ideas-forum-chindia-dialogues-part-ii

Talk at Yale University, 7th November
http://complit.yale.edu/news-events-1

Talk at New York University, 8th November
http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/202

 

The Immortals shortlisted for the Comonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book 2009

The Immortals a New Yorker Book of the Year 2009, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year 2009, and Reviewers Choice, Boston Globe and Irish Times, Best Books 2009

Chaudhuri's second CD, Found Music, was launched in London 18th October. It is available now in the UK in HMV shops and leading jazz shops throughout the country. It is available from the HMV website here: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/simpleMultiSearch.do?searchUID&pGroupID=-1&adultFlag=false&primaryID=0&simpleSearchString=amit+chaudhuri

Found Music is available for order from amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0044CO6IW/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d2_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1PKBP5AY8D4RSHNX5EYB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

Reviews of Found Music:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=37490

http://londonjazz.blogspot.com/2010/10/cd-review-amit-chaudhuri-found-music.html

Also see Jazzwise magazine, November issue.

 Events, Talks, Lectures, and Concerts

Talks, lectures, and readings in the US in October - Wellesley College and the Nicholson Centre of British Studies, Chicago University.

Lectures at Harvard and Yale Universities: 'The Origins of Dislike: A Genealogy of Writerly Discontent'.

Conversation with the English philosopher Simon Critchley on 'nothing' at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City; a report on the New Yorker's blog:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/11/apropos-of-nothing.html

This was followed by a performance by the Amit Chaudhuri Band at the Rubin Museum.

Performances by the Amit Chaudhuri Band in October 2010 at the Vortex, the Charlotte Street Blues, and at Rich Mix, all in London. See reviews and reports:

http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/vortex-gig-reviews.html

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/component/content/article/67-2010/11639-jazz-breaking-news-amit-chaudhuri-to-showcase-new-album-at-rich-mix

http://imanqureshi.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/an-evening-with-amit-chaudhuri/

Amit Chaudhuri spoke at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, on Renoir's 'La Loge' (displayed in the gallery). For the talk, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/18/picture-this-courtauld-somerset-house

Recent notice: Review of the Oxford concert on Friday the 4th of June - a hybrid event bringing together music and art - on one of Britain's best jazz websites: http://londonjazz.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-correspondenc.html
 
Amit Chaudhuri read and performed at the HEART Museum for Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark, 2nd September.

 Two recent reviews of the UK release by Babel of the CD, This Is Not Fusion  

Chris May on the premier jazz website says:  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35566

Peter Culshaw in the Barbican's arts website: http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1047:new-music-cd-round-up-6&Itemid=29

The second review also appeared as a four star review in Songlines magazine.

 Older News from 2009

Amit Chaudhuri judged, with Jane Smiley and Andrey Kurkov, the Man Booker International Prize 2009 (the winner, Alice Munro, was announced on May 27th 2009).

 Amit Chaudhuri was elected in 2009 to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature

 'A publisher's nightmare': see below for Guardian editorial:

In praise of ... Amit Chaudhuri
Editorial The Guardian, Thursday July 31 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/2

 Go to Amit Chaudhuri´s music site on myspace.com

myspace.com/amitchaudhuri

 

Enlist on the Amit Chaudhuri Band Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Amit-Chaudhuri-Band/225765246714?ref=ts 

 

Also, see www.babellabel.co.uk and cdbaby.com to buy the CD. Also available from www.amazon.com, and iTunes.

The European perfomances of the Amit Chaudhuri Band (This is Not Fusion) are being represented by Roger Elsgood of Art and Adventure