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Centenary Tribute to Ustad Alla Rakha Dr L Subramaniam
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Ustad Alla Rakha is one of the greatest tabla player of all time. I have the fondest memory of performing and recording with him. This excerpt is from one of such recordings, as a tribute to the great maestro in his birth centenary year. • Dr L Subramaniam (Violin) | Ustad Alla Rakha (Tabla) | Palghat R. Raghu (Mridangam) • About the Maestro: • Ustad Allarakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player specialized in Hindustani Classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Ravi Shankar. • He was born in Phagwal, Jammu. He began his career as an accompanist in Lahore and then as an All India Radio staffer in Bombay in 1940, playing the station's first-ever tabla solo and elevating the instrument's position in the process. The venerable master achieved world renown as Shankar's chief accompanist during his apex in the 1960s, delighting audiences in the West with his percussive wizardry, not only as an uncanny accompanist with flawless timing and sensitivity but also as a soloist where he was a master of improvisation, a prolific composer and an electric showman. The partnership was particularly successful, and his legendary and spellbinding performances with Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969 served to introduce classical Indian music to general Western audiences. • Rakha popularised the art of tabla, playing across the globe, elevating the status and respect of his instrument. Abbaji (as he was affectionately known by his disciples) also bridged the gap between Carnatic music and Hindustani music by playing with both renowned Carnatic musicians and other Hindustani stalwarts. • Leading American percussionists in rock n' roll, such as the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, admired him and studied his technique, benefiting greatly even from single meetings. Hart, a published authority on percussion in world music, said: Allah Rakha is the Einstein, the Picasso; he is the highest form of rhythmic development on this planet. Rakha also collaborated with jazz drummer Buddy Rich on their 1968 album Rich à la Rakha. • Rakha was part of the ensemble accompanying Ravi Shankar during George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh shows, held in New York City in August 1971. The success of the live album and concert film from this event presented Indian classical music to a wide audience in the West. Rakha was awarded the Padma Shri in 1977 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1982. He was also featured in a Google doodle on 29 April 2014 on the occasion of his 95th birthday. • • Palghat R. Raghu (9 January 1928 – 2 June 2009) was a Carnatic musician and percussionist. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2007. He was born in Rangoon, Burma. Raghu toured extensively in Europe, United States, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. He performed with artists such as Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Flute Hariprasad Chaurasia, Santoor Shivkumar Sharma and Alla Rakha in numerous concerts in India and abroad. He had also been involved in East-West fusion music. He had been visiting professor of music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, San Diego State University and University of Berkeley. • Source: Wikipedia • Subscribe for more musical content every week. • #UstadAllaRakha #Tribute • Follow Dr L Subramaniam on : • Instagram - / drlsubramaniam • Facebook - / drlsubramaniam • Website - http://indianviolin.com • Follow Kavita Krishnamurti on : • Website - http://kavitaks.com/ • Facebook - / kavitaks • Instagram - / kavitaksub
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