‘A Tribute to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’
What amount of courage and focus does it take to get up on stage and perform?
17 June 2011
Author: Ken Hunt
Music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics
Surdas Bhajans
In some fields of music it is possible to use a superlative like ‘greatest’ without fear of charges of partiality or chamcha (sycophantic) designs.
17 June 2011
Asha – the Risk-Taking Legend
Ken Hunt catches up with Asha Bhosle, popular music’s living legend and Shujaat Khan, son of the late Vilayat Khan, in London following their concert of Naina Lagaike at the Royal Festival Hall.
17 June 2011
Carnatic Jazz
The principle of Carnatic jazz is fairly long-established. By that, let’s agree on a fusion of the Carnatic – also Karnatic – art music tradition system of South India and jazz – predominantly, maybe exclusively jazz in its post World War II, multi-cultural manifestations.
17 June 2011
Rabindra Sangeet – Gift to Bengal and the world
Tagore has left behind a body of songs that continue to inspire new generations. Ken Hunt places the achievements of the Bard of Bengal in an international context.
11 March 2011
My Music – The Saregama Years
Saregama holds the largest and plainly the most mouthwatering archive of recorded music of any of the subcontinent’s record companies. This 18-CD career retrospective from the santoor virtuoso Shivkumar Sharma illustrates that proposition.
11 March 2011
Naina Lagaike
Given the reputations of vocalist Asha Bhosle and vocalist-sitarist Shujaat Khan, it might be as well to say straight away what they aren’t doing here.
11 March 2011
Kala Ramnath – Hindustani violin’s Kishori Amonkar
Ken Hunt paints a portrait of Hindustani violin’s Kishori Amonkar.
15 December 2010
Carnatic Chills
Billed as Carnatic Chills, this concert brought together three rarely-heard instruments, piano, violin and kanjira, to present an evening of Carnatic music.
15 December 2010
Collaborations
Collaborations is a numbered, limited edition boxed set containing three CDs and one DVD. It gathers together three out-of-print Harrison and Shankar projects.
15 December 2010