So John McLaughlin was thrilled to be invited to receive the Hafiz Ali Khan Award. Read More
FR, bass on all tracks; Michel Delaporte, percussion ("Breiz"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, percussion ("Poucha Dass"); Jean-Pierre Drouet, Christian Garros, and Armand Molinetti, various percussion including tabla and marimba ("Thyosanne"). Read More
Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. "I buried my father, and the next day I turned 27," he remembered one recent afternoon, sitting cross legged on a Persian carpet in the main classroom at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. Read More
Twenty-seven-year-old Alam Khan admits that he was emotionally adrift for a time while he grieved for his father, the great North Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan, who died in June. "I buried my father, and the next day I turned 27," he remembered one recent afternoon, sitting cross legged on a Persian carpet in the main classroom at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael. Read More
It's been nearly 20 years since my fateful meeting with Yehudi Menuhin in the Pasadena Hilton Hotel. Read More
Tenet , the band by and including Jed Fucking Simon. Read More
Born in Manhattan to a jazz musician father and an interior designer mother, Guy Beck spent his teenage years in Syracuse, N.Y., practicing classical symphony music from composers like Brahms on piano, listening to the Beatles and playing electric base for his surf-inspired rock band, The Islanders. Read More
Dhani Harrison was born into a musical dynasty, but this enterprising artist is putting his own stamp on his family name. Read More
Norah Jones has confessed she almost gave up music before shooting to international stardom with her debut album 'Come Away With Me'. Read More
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