Rafiq Bhatia coasts into a Manhattan coffee shop with the easy gait of a man who refuses to carry 100 years of jazz history on his shoulders.
“I have other things to carry,” the 26-year-old guitarist says. “It’s not that jazz smells funny and that I’m trying to stay away from it. I just don’t see my output or my reference points that way. I’ve been really inspired by artists from the jazz community — past and present — and it’s part of what I do. But so are many other things.”
All those other things should come streaming from Bhatia’s fingertips when his quartet headlines the New Vintage Jazz and Wine Fest in Washington…
via Rafiq Bhatia and a new vintage of jazz – Washington Post.
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