User:Tiniyasharma/sandbox

From a very young age, he traveled extensively and grew-up in a multi-cultural family with father being the western classical violinist and brother being a classical tabla player. In his initial years, from the age of six to 10, he learnt Hawaiian guitars and drums and the age of 12, he shifted to Spanish guitar under the genre of 'Flamenco'. He is jazz guitarist Ujjal Kumar Saha. Ujjal is a jazz guitarist, composer and educator. A very early source of musical knowledge and inspiration for Ujjal was Charlie Christian's bebop improvisation followed by revolutionary symmetrical approach of John Coltrane. His compositions incorporate a diverse amount of musical elements, which include improvised solos, odd meters, polyrhythms, classical harmony, classical counterpoint, jazz harmony, ultra modern harmony and dense orchestrations lyrical melodies.

'Carnatic jazz' Being a classical guitarist in his early days after being certified Grade 8, Trinity college, London, he has always been thriving for the modern sound that lead him to land under the genre of jazz comprising of bebop and hard bop. Attending the workshop with Larry Coreal, singer Angela Hagen Bach, jazz guitarist Paul Robson, etc has added huge amount of experience in his musical journey. He has been researching on the blending of carnatic classical and jazz leading to a much modern sound named 'Carnatic jazz'.Bold text