Sameer Gupta
Brooklyn, New York
Sameer Gupta is an original artist within improvisational styles of jazz, world, and fusion music. Since 10 years old, he has lived in Tokyo, San Francisco, New York City, and visited India annually. Today his skills and musicianship are appreciated globally. He has played drumset at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Birla Auditorium in Kolkata. He has played tabla at The Lincoln Center, and Asagiri Jam in Japan. Along with lec/dems on Classical Indian music with Carnegie Hall's Global Encounters Program, and at Berkelee College of Music in Boston, he is now playing a hybrid of both tabla and drumset simultaneously, attempting to push the boundaries of possibilities. He has the distinguished honor today of studying with tabla Maestro Pandit Anindo Chatterjee in Kolkata, with his first few years spent under the guidance of the legendary Ustad Zakir Hussain. Sameer can be heard live and on recording with such known artists as Marc Cary, The Supplicants, Anindo Chatterjee, Ramesh Misra, Chitresh Das, Richard Howell, Snehasish Mozumdar, Srinivas Reddy, Prasant Radhkrishnan, Marcus Shelby, Parijat Desai, Stephen Kent, Sekou Sundiata and numerous other fine artists.
"...Sameer Gupta — a percussionist and an expert on Indian music" - New York Times 10/14/2009
“Gupta is also an accomplished tabla player, and uses his knowledge of...cross-rhythms to create astonishingly original percussive textures.”
- India Currents 2007
“Gupta was particularly impressive, bringing cyclical Indian rhythms to his kit work which he augmented on occasion with tabla forays…
- ”Insights, Reviews & Interviews By Willard Jenkins
“...Sameer Gupta’s wire brushes suggested a field of silvery light for [Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards] to dance in.” –
- danceviewtimes.com, 10/03/2007
"Gupta’s tender, undulating piece “Taiwa” reclaims the set’s sense of spirituality, finding strength not so much from volume or rhythmic drive as from somewhere deep within the souls of the artists." - Jazz Observer, Monterey Jazz Festival 2008
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