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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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,” …