In 2004, Rudresh Mahanthappa alchemised his exasperation into art. His album Mother Tongue that year was a witty, biting rely to the query often posed to subcontinental immigrants to the …
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Indo-jazz fusion
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As millions of Brazilians take to the streets to demand schools instead of stadiums, here are two musical reminders of that country’s intriguing links with India. The first is a …
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All India Radio Signature Tune by tajmahalfoxtrot1 Preparing to moderate a conversation earlier this week with the writer-musician Amit Chaudhuri about his new book on Calcutta, I revisited his This …
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What Is This Thing Called Love, Part 1, by British Modern Jazz by tajmahalfoxtrot1 “The rostrum was surrounded with people who were content to stand and watch and that semi-circle …
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One evening in 1958, the pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet gathered in the home of a jazz-loving industrialist on Mumbai’s Malabar Hill to chat with a group of Indian …
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Sees Need of Indian Blend to Save Music of America Hindu Scholar Regards Jazz as Atrocity – Urges Compositions with ‘Atmosphere’ to Supplant It That intriguing headline from December 1922 …