With a deep, woody, resonant tone and compelling harmonic and rhythmic invention, bassist Harish Raghavan is a first-call touring musician for a number of top-flight jazz artists including Kurt Elling, Taylor Eigsti, Vijay Iyer, Gerald Clayton, and Charles Lloyd, to name a few. He has played on seminal recordings by Ambrose Akinmusire, Eric Harland, Logan Richardson, and Dayna Stephens, among others. Based in Brooklyn, Raghavan is also a composer, bandleader, and educator. He co-leads a group with saxophonist Walter Smith III that has issued several recordings. Raghavan's leader debut, Calls for Action, appeared in 2019. After reshuffling his band, he followed it in 2022 with In Tense.