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    The Vile Parle Wonderboys

    by naresh fernandes
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    Over the course of my research, I’ve occasionally encountered names of performers in programme brochures and on record labels that have, frustratingly, remained little more than just that: names. None of the other musicians I have interviewed have been able to give me more than sketchy details about these performers, I haven’t been able to track down their families and there’s little about them in the news clips I’ve found. Among these tantalising phantoms are the Theodore brothers: Joe, Harry, George and Bertie aka Lups, who led one of the first Indian swing bands to play a stint at the Taj in the late 1930s.

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    Morning You Play Different, Evening You Play Different

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    Their eyes give it away. Chris Perry wears a slick black jacket, the sleeves of his crisp white shirt revealing the glint of dark cuff links. His fingers clasp a …

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    Dot buster

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    Usha Uthup, who won a Padma Shree this year, hasn’t stepped out of the spotlight since she first started belting out Broadway tunes and pop standards in 1969 in venues …

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    The Girl with the Yellow Shoes

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    In the 1950s, the Anglo-Indian crooner Pamela McCarthy was among the most striking figures on the Bombay bandstand. She was always dressed in a stunning ball gown. Her swinging voice …

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    A Wild, Weird, Pathetic Wail

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    Their singing is like “a sound, good kick, something which can be felt and not described”. That’s what The Times of India suggested 121 years ago after hearing the predecessors …

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    A Woman in a Man’s World

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    One evening in 2007, as I wrapped up a presentation at an art festival in  Panjim on the role Goan jazz musicians had played in bringing swing to the Hindi …

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    India’s first jazz record

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    Jazz, it’s clear, was the world’s first pop. The joyous form had the good fortune of being born right around the time that the gramophone was invented and global shipping …

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    Bombay, It’s Ours

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    In 2004, the Sri Lankan pop sensations from the 1960s, The Jet Liners, held a reunion concert in Colombo. As a finale, they performed this song: Bombay Meri Hai – …

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    The Man With the Golden Guitar

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    A version of this article first appeared in Time Out Mumbai. In 2004, in a review of an album called Integration, the Guardian declared, “Of all the attempts to bring …

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    Take Five Comes Full Circle

    by naresh fernandes
    by naresh fernandes

    Over the past couple of weeks, this music video of performers at Pakistan’s Sachal Studios reinterpreting Dave Brubeck’s classic jazz tune Take Five has spread around the world faster than …

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