The first thing you notice about the young guitarist Rafiq Bhatia’s music is its hunger to combine, though it never sounds like established tradition A plus established tradition B. He’s merging more volatile tendencies — propositions, not facts — and he’s in a hurry.
His set at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday came at least partially from jazz. Not standards and bebop, but jazz of the past 30 years, let’s say, involving solid-bodied guitars.
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