Trumpeting into the ragaas with a ‘Firebird’

A trumpeter grounded in jazz and funk, and an audience habituated to the Indian classical sounds of strings, woodwind and reed, found middle ground at a recent show in the city.

New York-based trumpeter ‘Indofunk’ Satish, for whom dabbling in experimental fusion is second nature, played a Firebird slide trumpet — trumpet-trombone hybrid brass instrument — to channel its distinctive sound into an exploration of sampling of Indian classical raagas.