“Gracias is a world famous guitarist and keyboard player. Fluid runs and sweeping arpeggios capture an Eastern feel making it hard to tell whether jazz guitar or a sitar are playing the tunes.”
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Music Critic – Amrita Bazar Patrika
“Gracias played Jazz and Blues with a distinct Indian flavour. The creations, fusions and musical collages that Gracias presented had a sensuous haunting melodic line, which sets his music apart”.
Nova Review
“Arthur Gracias and his love of music is another stepping stone in the quest to build bridges between nations, cultures and people”.
Music Critic – The Statesman
“Gracias whose playing is tinged with Indian Classical influences. It is this spirit of creating innovative music that must live on if any special branch of Jazz is to emerge”.
Music Critic – Business Standard. India
“Gracias has revived the field of Indo-Jazz fusion in India and has shown that this era of music is still wide open to endless speculation and experiment.”
The Telegraph
“I have concentrated on Indojazz and my latest album NIGHT RAGA, about spreading the message of peace, love and joy has been very well accepted Internationally leading to invites to perform in Chicago, Missouri and Toronto next year.”
The West Australian
“Not many musicians can claim to have invented a new genre, Arthur Gracias has not only done that, he has created his own instrument to play it on.”