his upcoming jazz event represents a masterful collaboration among some of the top jazz talents in the United States, alongside one of Mumbai's finest jazz artists, drummer Benny Soans. This programme celebrates the standard classics of the 1940s, featuring music by George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael, Charles Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Cannonball Adderly. Banaszak has also written a composition specifically for this NCPA event, 'The House that McLean Built', inspired by his mentor alto saxophonist Jackie Mclean.