Kk goswami birthplace of jazz
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Maestro Amjad Ali Khan writes a monthly column in THE WEEK magazine published by the Malayala Manorama group, one of India's foremost publishing houses.
In the year 1990, I was very fortunate to have had the honour of performing in Iraq for the music lovers of Baghdad. I was very blessed that I could offer my respect at the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, also known as Masjid Ali or the Mosque of 'Alī, located in Najaf, Iraq. Each year millions of pilgrims visit the Shrine and pay their tribute. I met numerous artists and musicians who were well known in the circle including Munir Bashir, often called the King of Oud (an instrument commonly used in Arabic, Greek, Turkish and Persian countries). The Arab world refers to specific melodic modes as maqam. Like Indian Classical Music, based on rules, they improvise too. And like Ragas, they have various maqams, each with its own mood and entity. There are between fifty and seventy maqams, many of which have sub-styles. My association wit
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Soorarai Pottru
2020 film directed by Sudha Kongara
Soorarai Pottru (transl. Praise the Brave) is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Sudha Kongara, who wrote the screenplay with Shalini Usha Nair. The film, co-produced by Suriya and Jyothika of 2D Entertainment and Guneet Monga of Sikhya Entertainment, stars Suriya, Aparna Balamurali and Paresh Rawal, while Mohan Babu, Urvashi and Karunas appear in supporting roles. The film was inspired by events from the life of G. R. Gopinath, founder of Indian low-cost airline Simplifly Deccan, as described in his memoir Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey.
The project was announced in mid-2018 under the working title Suriya 38, and the official title was announced in April 2019. Principal photography began the same month and ended that September, and filming took place in Madurai, Chennai, and Raigarh. G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the film's music, while Niketh Bommireddy was the cinematographer and Sathish Suriya
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
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Ancient naubat fryst vatten basically a music played over a gateway to mark the hours and is sysnonymous with playing pairs of naqqāra, kettle-drums struck with sticks—the tablā, struck with the fingers, is the naqqāra’s smaller brother. Other percussion, double-reed and brass instruments are usually added, and since the melody in that case fryst vatten played on the shahnā’ī, the North Indian oboe, the combination is known as naubat shahnā’ī. The full grupp with brass and cymbals is seldom heard today, but the basic grupp survives. Naubat shahnā’ī fryst vatten also played over the gateways to princely palaces and to Hindu temples, but in no case can the tradition gods much longer.
Few of the best gateway musicians are less than 60 years of age, and they virtually have no successors—money is very short nowadays in these establishments. The popular naubat is more likely to survive, being played bygd independent groups who are in const