This isn’t about Bombay jazz but I decided to make an exception since it’s broadly about Bombay musical culture. Here’s the text of remarks I made at the launch of …
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The excellent folks at Free School Street Records have reissued Explorations, the album recorded at Calcutta Kala Mandir in 1978 featuring Braz Gonsalves, Louis Banks and Pam Crain. It’s a …
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Portrait of Prahlad Mehta by Hal Green (Extract from the manuscript books) By Nakul P. Mehta Saxophonist Nakul Mehta, who has a storehouse of memories about the Indian jazz scene, …
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Duke Ellington visited India in 1963 as part of the US State Department’s programme during the Cold War to attempt to use jazz to win hearts and minds in the …
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This post is long overdue. Eight years ago, I received a note from Irena Yashin-Shaw about her father. Here’s what she said: Walter Yashin was a Russian musician who had …
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On January 18, Badal Roy’s niece, Piali Roy, announced that the pioneering tabla player had passed away. Here’s a piece I wrote about him in 1998. Brandishing his spatula like …
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