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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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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By Roxanne Noronha Late one evening in 1974, my mum, her siblings and their mother gathered around their sitting room table, in Bandra, Bombay, readied their transistor radio and tuned …
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Another episode in our series about jazzy tunes that inspired Bollywood. From Phool Aur Patthar (1966), sung by Asha Bhonsale, here’s Zindagi Mein Pyar Karna Seekh Le. The music was …
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A version of this piece appeared in Time Out Mumbai in 2006. Asha Puthli has a somewhat unorthodox relationship with time. When she’s asked about her age, for instance, the …
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