Some Press Comments:

1. The Shakuntalam theatre was reverberating with the precision of Delhi's well-known percussionist, Jaya Bhaskar on the opening day of November 14, 2002 --- Cultural Gallery,  Delhi.

2. Students of IIIT-Hyderabad were treated to some mellifluous Indian classical music at Rhythms of India, a musical concert by P. Jaya Bhaskar and his team ---- R. Ravikanth Reddy, Hyderabad.

3. Percussionists Delight at Concert --- the beats of bliss flowed in a rare jugalbandi of rhythm flowing in a special programme by Pracheen Kala Kendra today. The ensemble of percussion instruments was led by P. Jaya Bhaskar, a well-known Akashwani composer, on Mridangam. It was a concert using percussion to unitedly promote the diverse parameters of the Hindustani and Carnatic schools of music.--- S.D. Sharma, Chandigarh.

4. When South blends with North, Rhythmically --- Drums of India ... exemplifies a unique approach of bringing together percussion instruments of the south and the north. Conducted by P. Jaya Bhaskar, a senior artist with All India Radio .... he says for a successul concert of an all percussion ensemble (taal vadya kacheri), all percussionists have to understand the complete rhythmical systems of the south and the north ....Tuesday evening proved that the fusion was complete.---- Vandana Shukla, Times News Network.

5. A Thousand Names for Joy ..... A musical ensemble that combined devotion with virtuosity .... the programme conceived by Jaya Bhaskar was a well-structured one covering a variety of items and driven by coordinated teamwork, delighting the rasikas throughout. ---- Venkatesan Srikanth.

6. An Evening when Instruments were All-Pervasive --- Jaya Bhaskar Rao, conceiver of this mesmerising musical soiree .... The Drums of India is the Deva Vaadya, the instrument of gods ..... as the kacheri unfolded at the indoor auditorium in Chandigarh ..... the sounds emanating from all six instruments, including the mridangam were no less celestial ... and of course, incredibly rhythmic .... but then rhythm, says Jaya Bhaskar, whose musical odyssey began at the age of nine with the mridangam, is a universal language .... the Chandigarhites were fortunate enough to savour what was undeniably and undisputably a crescendo of creativity. ----- Nonika Singh.

7. Solo Carnatic concert by the maestro of laya, Balamurali Krishna, who unleashed his Panchamukha tala with Jaya Bhaskar's brilliant mridangam tani. ---- September 30, 2005, Delhi.