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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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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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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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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The search is eternal and the journey is everlasting. That’s the conclusion Indo-jazz guitar player Arthur Gracias has drawn from a lifetime of playing music, first in Calcutta where he …
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