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Bismillah Khan

Tamar Osborn: From Kalakuta To Collocutor: New Directions In Jazz

by Chris May
October 12, 2020

She has been likened to Gil Evans, Fela Kuti, Pharoah Sanders, Bismillah Khan and Mulatu Astatke, and the traditions represented by those musicians are all to be heard in the music of baritone saxophonist and composer Tamar Osborn. Osborn's aesthetic, however, is her own, and her band, Collocutor, is among the most distinctive on the British ...

Arun Ghosh: Primal Odyssey

by Chris May
October 21, 2011

Arun GhoshPrimal OdysseyCamoci Records2011 There you are, waiting for the next Indo-Jazz album to arrive, and then two come along at the same time. October 2011 has already seen the release of Grand Union Orchestra's If Paradise (Red Gold), and now here comes clarinetist Arun Ghosh's Primal ...

The Shenai's Humble Master

By Bismillah Khan

Label: Saregama India
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Raga Deshi Todi; Raga Multani; Raga Sarang; Raga Iman Kalyan; Raga Jogia. CD2: Bihag; Raga Jaiaiwanti; Raga Yaman; Raga Bhairavi; Theme From Kajri.

Bismillah Khan: The Shenai's Humble Master

by Chris May
November 29, 2007

For most people in the West, classical Indian raga music means one instrument, the sitar, and one player, Ravi Shankar. Quite why Shankar came to be considered the greatest modern sitar player over Vilayat Khan and several others, and the sitar as the primary raga instrument over the sarod or the shenai, is debatable. But serendipity ...