Late Night Music Club - RIP Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
By bluegal Saturday Jun 20, 2009 7:00pmThe Hindu [India's National Newspaper]:
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has condoled the death of sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who passed away on Friday after prolonged kidney ailment.
In a letter to his wife, Mary Khan, Ms. Gandhi said: “Ustad Ali Akbar Khan embodied the very pinnacle of our great classical music tradition. In his hands, the sarod was an instrument that expressed with unsurpassed beauty and eloquence the noblest aspirations and deepest yearnings of the human soul.”Ms. Gandhi said his death was an irreplaceable loss to the nation. But his, music, which carried forward the great tradition of Ustad Allauddin Khan, would live on forever.
(Many thanks to the commenters/emailers who brought his passing to our attention.)
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A master!
Rare to see you slummin' it at the LNMC, Alice. :D
You should throw me some ideas of what you might like to see in an LNMC submission. I'm genuinely interested in what you, a professional
musicianartiste, likes to listen to. Honest!No slummin' with Ali Akbar Khan, he was legit.
Mark Feldman, NY violin, beyond category, here.
Not my usual musical fare, but interesting nonetheless!
This is one of those things that makes me listen a long time before I go hunting for things to post. Good stuff.
25 O'Clock
Reminds me of The Doors and Pink Floyd. Thanks!
The Dukes of Stratosphear was a side project of a band known as something else, that is.
Shangrila
Along Came Jones
First time I've heard of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, he certainly had a very free style of playing.
Kind of riding the sound.
When I heard this a couple of Beatles songs came to mind.
Within you without you
Blue Jay Way - it starts at about 1:30
Anything by The Beatles is fine by me. Trippy videos!
Time for me to hit the sheets. Goodnight to all.
Mrs. Robinson
Me And Mrs. Jones
I've always loved that tune, Andy. Thank you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk65Xd0NfTc&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLq5bgVcOpM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gPxV8U5n1Y&fe...
It's a sad day.
Teacher? So I hear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKAjGu5EYQ&fe...
GNA
That was not my usual music fare but a beautiful piece!
I hope he could play until his last day.
I have a dear friend who was a very good gutiarist but for the last 5 years has been unable to pickup his guitar.
It breaks my heart. I have been friends with him since I was 16 years old. We played music together for nearly fourty years.
I know how much he loved to play. Lou Gerhrig's disease has just about done him in.
Jim loved to work the crowd. I have three song's he and his brother John recorded at a studio in Lexington Ky must have been about 1970. John died a couple of years ago from lung cancer. They played well together.
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