13th April 2021: Rez Abbasi to receive Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021

Guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is one of the most celebrated artistic voices of his generation. A veteran of fourteen albums as a leader, his deep musicality has been applied with equal conviction to contemporary New York acoustic jazz, the Qawwali and Indian Classical traditions of South Asia and the heady fusion sounds of the 1970s, each time applying the filter of his own musical personality to deliver inimitable results.

Great news for Rez this week, as he joins the select few creatives to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2021. To see the full list of awardees, click: here.

Rez has released three albums on Whirlwind – Django-shift, A Throw Of Dice and Unfiltered Universe. To see more of Rez’s discography, find it on our e-site: here.