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Arun Luthra is a jazz musician (saxophonist, composer, and arranger) based in New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A. of an Indian father and a British mother. He began his formal music training in Belgium at the age of nine, studying European classical guitar. He eventually focused on the saxophone as his primary instrument and soon began an active performing and writing career.
As a performer he has shared the stage and recorded with many of the greatest jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and pop artists in the world, including Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Dennis Irwin, Joe Chambers, Charli Persip, Bobby Porcelli, Portinho, Zé Renato, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Bobby Short, Lew Soloff, Bernard Purdie, and Ray Vega.
Luthra has also performed and/or studied with such notable Hindustani and Karnatic music masters as Pandit Trichy Sankaran, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Krishnan Lalgudi & Vijayalakshmi Lalgudi, Pandit Karaikudi Subramaniam, and Steve Gorn.
As a recording artist Luthra has been featured as a band leader, composer, arranger, and sideman. In addition to his career as a performer, composer, and arranger, Luthra is also a faculty member at the New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York alongside such jazz and world music greats as Bobby Sanabria, Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, and Junior Mance.
Partial discography:
Arun Luthra's Svaha "Tangibility" (independent release)
Quimbombó "Conga Eléctrica" (Testa Dura)
Björkestra "Enjoy" (Koch Jazz)
Russ Spiegel Sextet "Chimera" (Steeplechase)
Billy Fox "The Uncle Wiggly Suite" (CleanFeed)
Broadway's Greatest Gift - "Carols For A Cure" Vol. 9 (Rock-It Science Records)
Mosaïc Orchestra "The Journey" (Blue Lemon Records)
Karl Wenninger's Wake Up Call "Wake Up Call" (independent release)