A fabulous line-up of our beloved performers kick-off the extravaganza on the 18th:
Belting out popular and favourite tunes that we simply won’t be able to get enough of. What a line-up to begin with, The Piano Man Jazz Club presents Sin(gers) City:
Aditi Malhotra - Vocals
Nisa Shetty - Vocals
Krishna Vinod - Vocals
Parvati Krishnan - Vocals
Aditya Dutta - Percussion
Sonic Shorey - Bass
Rythem Bansal - Keys

On the 19th we have Funk and Jazz with the PReSSto Quartet
Celebrating jazz in style. Premjit (Kolkata), Rainer (Germany), Shonai (Kolkata) and Sonic (Delhi) are 4 monster musicians coming together to play a night of funk, jazz and blues.
A night not to be missed, this truly global collection of musicians represent the spirit of Jazz and of The Piano Man Jazz Club
Premjit Dutta : Drums
Rainer Pusch : Saxophone
Arunava Shonai Chatterjee : Keys
Sonic Shori : Bass

PReSSto Quartet
Celebrating jazz in style. Premjit (Kolkata), Rainer (Germany), Shonai (Kolkata) and Sonic (Delhi) are 4 monster musicians coming together to play a night of funk, jazz and blues.
A night not to be missed, this truly global collection of musicians represent the spirit of Jazz and of The Piano Man Jazz Club
Premjit Dutta - Drums
Premjit started his musical journey at the early age of 5, when he started learning Tabla. He learnt Tabla for 14 years and is a Sangeet ‘Visharad’ from Bangiyo Sangeet Parishad. He is also a disciple of veteran Conguero Monojit’Kochu’Datta and has learnt the Congas, Bongos, Timbales, Guiro and other Latin percussions for more than 10 years and was an integral part of his bands and projects. Other than Steve Gadd, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Changuito, Giovanni Hidalgo, Antonio Sanchez, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mason, Jeff Campitelli, Wes Montgomery, Jack Dejohnette, Vinnie Colaiuta etc., He draws influence from the nature and tries to imbibe and express that through his music.
Rainer Pusch- Saxophone
As an international and renowned saxophonist, arranger and composer, Rainer Pusch has always been interested in trying out new kinds of music. His spectrum ranges from a jazz background obtained during his studies with George Coleman, Jerry Bergonzi, at the Berklee College of Music (Boston) to various performances with jazz, funk, latin and pop bands over the years. He worked beneath many others with Art Farmer, Horace Parlan, John Betsch, Pony Poindexter. Rainer Pusch ́s manifold interests brought him to collaborate repeatedly with many famed Indian musicians such as the Mumbai based guitarists Keith and Karl Peters, with Louis Banks, Dr. Mysore Manjunath, Sanjay Divecha and Ranjit Barot within the scope of Jazz and Indo-Jazz Fusion projects. Further collaborations included recordings with A.R. Rahman and Ramnath Gopalnat as well as many gigs with Ganesh Kumar, Selva Ganesh, Dr. Balamuralikrishnan, and Amit Heri, Manickam Yogeswaran.
Arunava Shonai Chatterjee - Keys
The ever-evolving Shonai enjoys his musical life as a performer, educator, composer and arranger. Born in a musicians’ family in Kolkata Shonai had got introduced to various genre of music in his childhood time. In his 20 years of performance life he has worked in every possible situations from solo to duet and from bands like trio, quartet and Quintet to Big Bands. Shonai being predominantly a contemporary and jazz Pianist has worked with Jazz stalwarts like Mr.Carlton Kitto, Mr.Andrew Gracias, Mr.Lewis Hilt, Mr.Marcus Dengate, Mr. Clive Huse to name a few.
Being a versatile musician Shonai had been a part of several bands with different genre of music like Blue Mist ( pop ), Orient Express ( Latin ), Carlton Kitto Jazz Ensemble ( Jazz ), Fast Forward ( Funk-Jazz ), Big Family ( Blues ), Bramhakhyapa ( Bawl Jazz fusion ) etc. Apart from these bands he used to work with many other bands and artists as a session musician.
Sonic Shori - Bass
is a professional bassist in the city of Delhi. He is student of Grammy-nominated Greek-American musician Panagiotis Andreou. He has comprehensive stage experience, and has collaborated with musicians from several different genres including classical, fusion, funk and metal. His playing combines complexity with cohesion, and playing melodies with dexterity, musicality and tenacity. Over the last few years, Sonic has collaborated with several bands in Delhi and across India, such as Kaash, Antariksh, Trizya, and Adil and Vasundhara.