Keshav Batish

Jazz drummer Keshav Batish is known for blending his multidimensional post-bop jazz with Hindustani and North Indian Classical musical traditions. Batish released his debut album, Binaries in Cycle, in 2021. A California native, Batish grew up in a musical family the son of noted sitar player Pandit Ashwin Batish and grandson of singer Shiv Dayal Batish. From a young age, he played sitar and tabla with his father and eventually took up the drum set. As a teenager, he discovered jazz while a student at the Pacific Collegiate School. He then attended University of California, ...