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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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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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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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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(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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On New Year’s Day in 1992, a few hundred Bombay fans gathered in the very new Priyadarshani Park on Nepean Sea Road to listen to an eclectic bunch of musicians …
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