In the last three years, the jazz music scene in the national capital has seen a shift from festivals offering a mix of big and small bands to independent concerts by new bands that are writing their own music arrangements.
The venues have changed too - from large open-air stages to intimate night spots.
The capital has nearly a dozen or so ensembles that play a brand of assimilation jazz drawing from contemporary western music genres such as funk, hip-hop, reggae, soul, blues, ballads and even a bit of rock.
The core of their composition is traditional jazz around which they improvise to re-arrange their music to different beats and new instrumentation, depending on the venue and the audience.
"If there is going to be progressive jazz fusion in the capital and in India in general, a strong traditional jazz base is necessary to allow young musicians to improvise and bring in new influences. Young musicians here are now taking jazz seriously," Brian Citro, a jazz guitarist from Chicago and a member of the Brian Citro Trio, told IANS.
The Brian Citro Trio band is a cross-cultural outfit featuring two Indian musicians and Citro, who relocated to India in 2008 as a human rights lawyer from United States.
The musician, who has a university degree in performance jazz, teamed up with two Delhi musicians early this year to make independent music.
Critics have described the trio as "a welcome new addition to the contemporary Indian music scene, performing newly composed music".
The trio re-interprets "jazz standards" by legends such as Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter in free-style compositions.....
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