The Artist
The Story
So Far
About hero photo — in-studio or candid
The Roots
Aamir Rizvi grew up in Kolkata at a time when Park Street was still the city's heartbeat — a stretch where jazz leaked out of venue doors and landed on the pavement. It shaped everything. His first guitar was secondhand. The instinct to play, though, was entirely his own.
He came up watching the regulars at Trincas and Someplace Else — older musicians who treated every Tuesday night like it was Carnegie Hall. That bar never left him. Neither did the conviction that live music is a conversation, not a performance, and that the best gigs happen when the room stops being an audience and becomes part of the band.
Through years of late-night sets, private parties, and full-band productions, Aamir built a reputation in Kolkata's circuit as someone who plays with conviction and listens with equal care. That reputation brought him to the places he still plays — and to the music he's now making on his own terms.
Photo — playing live
The Sound
Where Pop Meets
Jazz Meets Funk
Aamir doesn't believe genres are destinations — they're departure points. A song might begin as a pop melody, take a jazz detour through the bridge, and resolve itself in a funk groove that made no announcement it was coming. That surprise is the point.
His influences are audible — Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, John Mayer, Jacob Collier — but never worn on the sleeve. What you hear is someone who absorbed those languages and is now writing his own sentences with them.
The guitar is the spine. The voice is the nerve. Everything else — the band, the room, the crowd — is the body around it.
The Projects
Many Hats
Aamir performs in multiple formats — each one its own world. Swipe to explore.
The Jazztronouts
Kolkata's most electrifying jazz-funk collective. Equal parts Miles Davis and Vulfpeck — expect tight grooves, fiery solos, and rooms that don't stop moving.
Solo Acoustic
Just Aamir, a guitar, and a room full of listeners. Intimate originals and reimagined covers stripped down to their emotional core — the format where everything began.
Solo Electric
The full range of the instrument — loop pedals, overdrive, and everything in between. Blues-rooted and experimental, for when the acoustic doesn't quite cut it.