[This piece appears as an op-ed in The Hindu today. To accompany it, here are two tracks by Teddy Weatherford from the Marco Pacci archive. They feature George Banks on …
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Radhika Bordia’s lovely piece about Taj Mahal Foxtrot on NDTV. Click here to watch.
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Taj Mahal Foxtrot, which will be launched at the Goa Literary Festival tomorrow evening, takes its name from the tune above recorded in April 1936 by Crickett Smith and his …
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[An excerpt from Taj Mahal Foxtrot, which appears as the cover story in Mint/Lounge today.] As a teenager in the Goan village of Curchorem, Franklin Fernandes spent long hours practising …
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Over the course of my research, I’ve occasionally encountered names of performers in programme brochures and on record labels that have, frustratingly, remained little more than just that: names. None …
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One evening in 2007, as I wrapped up a presentation at an art festival in Panjim on the role Goan jazz musicians had played in bringing swing to the Hindi …