Akshra Yagnik: Jazz Musician in New York

About Akshra Yagnik

Akshra Yagnik is an individual artist whose public profile spans popular South Asian music and jazz performance, with a large streaming audience. In New York City, she appears at Dizzy’s Club, including with bassist-composer Carlos Henriquez in his septet alongside Luz Velázquez and Oni Marsalis. Those collaborations place her inside Henriquez’s Afro-Latin–adjacent orbit, where repertory often moves between tradition and newer forms. Her work tends to favor clear, direct phrasing over spectacle.