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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On July 18, 2024, just under nine decades after Crickett Smith and his Symphonians went into a Bombay studio to record a foxtrot called Taj Mahal, the tune was performed …
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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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In December 2020, just over nine years after I first wrote about my attempt to dig out information about Mena Silas, the Bombay musician who had composed Taj Mahal: A Foxtrot in 1936, …
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“I had no idea there were so many ashrams around Bombay!” More than four decades after he and his friend Jehangir Dalal got into a car and drove to more …
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(This is the second part of the BBC documentary Bombay and Jazz. I wrote about the first part last fortnight here.) Quite improbably, the maestro mispronounces his own name. “Hi,” …
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