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I haven't been there, but Gruene Hall (in or near New Braunfels) claims to date back to 1878. And they have a reasonably diverse live band schedule. http://gruenehall.com/

Country music, no thanks; the music club to go to in Austin is Antone's.

Violin and Sitar Jugalbandi – Singing Strings Saturday, April 07, 2018 4:00:00 PM Venue: Allen Library Civic Auditorium, 300 N. Allen Drive, Allen TX 75013 Admission: ICMC Members: Free General: $30 Student: $20 Indradeep Ghosh Violin Indrajit Banerjee Sitar Subrata Bhattacharya Tabla Indradeep Ghosh is one of the top ranking violinists in India and a trailblazer for Senia Maihar Gharana. He initially started playing violin at the tender age of six under the guidance of Sri Anamitra Mustafi. He has been under the tutelage of Professor Smt. Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury since 1991. He also had the privilege of getting training with different maestros of Indian Classical Music including Pandit V.G. Jog and Pandit Kumar Bose. Indradeep is one of the few Indian Classical violinists to play a custom made five-string violin with eight sympathetic strings, modeled after the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. The sympathetic strings allow for a fuller, resonant sound. His performances integrate many different styles and techniques of Western Classical and Oriental music. His style of playing can be described as a blend of Gayki and Tantrakari Ang with his fortes being taan and jhala. Along the years, Indradeep has participated in several music festivals and concerts of India and abroad such as 10th Asia Festival in Spain, 42nd EUYC in Switzerland, YOMAD Festival in Croatia, Yoga—Vidya Music Festival Germany, Biswa Banga Sammelan, Baba Allauddin Memorial Festival, , Salt Lake Music Festival, Prativa Utsav organized by EZCC, Dover Lane Music Festival, Kal Ke Kalakar Sangeet Sammelan Mumbai, Kala Prakash and Kashi sangeet Samaj, Varanasi and many more. He has to his credit many Classical and Fusion Music albums. He is the Artistic Director for Global Creative Arts Academy, Houston, Texas and also serves as a faculty instructor at School of Indian Percussion and Music, Austin, Texas. Sitarist Indrajit Banerjee is one of the leading exponents of the Maihar Gharana. He was born in a musical family, unique due to the large number of accomplished artists in Hindustani Classical Music. Some of these family members include his guru, Pandit Kartick Kumar (Sitar), Pandit Barun Kumar Pal (Hamsa Veena), Niladri Kumar (Sitar), Partho Das (Sitar), Aparna Roy (Surbahar). He got inspiration from his sitarist mother, Manju Banerjee, who was a disciple of late Nikhil Banerjee, and afterwards, Santosh Banerjee. Indrajit’s training began with his maternal grandfather, Bankim Kumar Pal, who was the disciple of Inayat Khan, and Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhuri (Kochi Babu). He then took training under Pandit Manilal Nag of Bishnupur Gharana. Later on, he took intensive training from his uncle, Pandit Kartick Kumar, who is a senior disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. He is an A grade artist of All India Radio and National Television, Panel Artist for Indian Council Of Cultural Relations, has served as Judge for A.I.R (Kolkata), and is a member of the American Federations of Musicians, and voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammies). He was awarded the Gokul Nag Memorial Medal in 1987 by Bangia Sangeet Parishad, (W. Bengal), “Sur Mani”in 1990 by Sur Sringal Samsad Bombay, Avinav Kala Samman in 1997 by Avinav Kala Parishad (Bhopal). Parangotsava-2007 (a festival held in Mysore, Karnataka) recognised him as Veteran (Pandit). Indrajit has been touring extensively toured in the U.K., Europe, Caribbean Islands, Lebanon , Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, Brazil and Canada for the last 18 years as a solo sitar artist. He has also collaborated with several artists from the West, including STING (Channel V Awards), Yaron Herman, Abbos Kosimov, Goodman Theatre, Fareed Haque, etc. He has several solo sitar albums to his credit. Indrajit has National and International awards from India and the USA. Indrajit is also a composer and has arranged music for several albums and award winning documentary films. Subrata Bhattacharya is one of the leading tabla players in India today. He has received his taalim under Shri Tamal Krishna Chatterjee, Shri Nripen Karmakar and Shri Tapan Kr. Banerjee before he was finally accepted as a pupil of tabla maestro Pt. Shankar Ghosh, all of whom honed his talent to the level of refinement now witnessed by audiences everywhere. He has since proved himself a worthy exponent of the Farukhabad Gharana. Recognition of his talent has come in the form of such awards as the Sangeet Prabhankar and the Gold Medal and the Saangeet Praveen from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahadad, and Sangeet Bhushan from the Bhatkhande College, Lucknow. Renowned artists whom he has accompanied in the past few years are Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Dr.N.Rajam, Pt. Buddhaditya Mukherjee, Ud Shahid Parvez Khan, Ud Ali Ahmed Hussain, Chitraveena Ravikiran, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pt. Samaresh Chaudhury, etc. He is a visiting professor at the University of Urbana Champaign,IL. The next milestone of his creativity and innovation is "Naad- The Everlasting Sound", a group he has formed to experiment with fusion music. It seems the next inevitable step in Subrata's career as a mingling and merging of eastern, middle eastern and western styles of music is the trend among makers and lovers of music these days. He is been a part of the Chicago based Indo -Jazz band Flat Earth Ensemble since its inception.

Now I feel like such a lightweight.

Yesterday was Cube release day at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. http://www.nojazzfest.com/downloads/2018-NOJHF-7-Day-Web-Cubes.pdf

Thanks; Fairyland is a fantastic record, I ordered the CD.

At the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I saw: 1. Meshell Ndegeocello (Tennessee Theater) (duet of bass guitar/vocals and guitar). 2. David Hidalgo and Mark Ribot (Tennessee Theater) (duo of guitars/vocals). 3. Roscoe Mitchell Trio Five (Standard). 4. Rova Saxophone Quartet (Knoxville Museum of Art). 5. Milford Graves (solo) (Bijou Theater). 6. Ned Rothenberg (solo) (St. John's Cathedral). 7. Evan Parker (solo) (St. John's Cathedral). 8. TAL National (Mill and Mine) (Afro rock from Niger). 9. Jenny Scheinman, live soundtrack to documentary Kannapolis (Bijou Theater). 10. Cyro Baptista and Banquet of the Spirits (Bijou Theater). 11. Jason Moran and Milford Graves (Bijou Theater). 12. Roscoe Mitchell Trios (Bijou Theater) (now that was great). 13. Rova Electric Ascension (12 piece band with additions including Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Cyro Baptista and Ches Smith) (Bijou Theater). I enjoyed all of the foregoing in varying degrees, the highlights for me being undoubtedly the Roscoe Mitchell Trios epic performance and the incredible TAL National. It was also great to get to see Milford Graves perform twice, and it was also a thrill to hear Coltrane's majestic Ascension theme performed live by a 12 piece band. I thought the Bijou Theater was a terrific venue. I also enjoyed the Tennessee Theater and St. John's Cathedral. I did not like the Standard or the Mill and Mine venues. Overall, a great experience which I would repeat in the future.

The Thursday night Nels Cline concert has been cancelled, and his other two appearances are in doubt at present.

Ally Venable Band--Puppet Show

I'm looking forward to seeing Roscoe Mitchell concerts on consecutive days!

Yes, Getz and Eldridge together is a fantastic combination. My copy, the cover is falling apart, but the LP is in terrific condition; trumpet label version sounds really fine.

J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, An Afternoon at Birdland (RCA VIK) Herb Ellis, Nothing But the Blues (Verve)

Celestial Strings – Hindustani Slide Guitar & Tabla Saturday, May 19, 2018 4:00:00 PM Venue: Allen Library Civic Auditorium, 300 N. Allen Drive, Allen TX 75013 Admission: ICMC Members: Free General: $30 Student: $20 Pt Debashish Bhattacharya Slide Guitar Nilan Chaudhuri Tabla Guitar maestro Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya evolves into a global inspiration in the arena of contemporary musical uprising. The musical journey is a counterpart to what remains a fond reminiscence of a child’s fancy with a Hawaiian lap guitar at the age of four. The multi-dimensional intrigue of invention became a passion with the making and widespread recognition of the patented Chaturangui (a 24-string hollow neck guitar), Gandharvi (a 14-string guitar which holds the longest glissando) and Anandi (a 4-string slide Ukulele ) which not only excels in sound variety and quality but has become the designer’s choice. With the lineage of Gurus like Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra and Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty the inspiration has gone beyond performance. Born to musician parents Pt Debashish Bhattacharya, a child prodigy, was initiated into Indian classical singing, but was drawn to the guitar because of the ability to emulate the human voice by using the slide. Past performances of Debashish have include John McLaughlin and his latest incarnation of Shakti, Bob Brozman that resulted in the album Mahima. Led Kaapana, Martin Simpson are the others. The uncanny ability of sliding like a voice and mesmerizing tantrakaari ang put Debashish Bhattacharya as a leading slide guitarist of the world. This extremely personable and gifted artiste takes us on a timeless journey through the history of Indian Classical Music, bringing it into the 21st century, with detours into the Blues and Hawaiian music as well. His work has earned him president of India award in 1984, The Asiatic Society Gold Medal in 2005, Grammy nominee in 2009, BBC Planet Award for World Music in 2007 and Song Line Music Award winner in 2016. He has been featured in bill-board top 10, Song Line Magazine top 10, Central Asia and Asia Pacific world music top 10, Amazon top 100 albums, National Geography and world’s who’s who enlisted artists. Nilan Chaudhuri has spent his entire life immersed in the tradition of Indian Classical Percussion. The son of Maestro Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, Nilan received his first Tabla lesson from his father at the age of five. Nilan presented his first public Tabla solo at the age of eleven, at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael in the presence of Maestro Ud. Ali Akbar Khan. Within months of his first recital, sensing his passion and devotion to the art form, Nilan was accepted as a ganda bandan disciple of Khasaib. As a teenager, Nilan was deeply inspired by the Jazz-fusion Band ‘Oregon’ a group spearheaded by his cousin, percussionist Colin Walcott, a student of Ustad Alla Rakha. The band’s music inspired Nilan to dive deeper into the world of rhythm, and in 2003 Nilan began studying the Drumset with legendary Bay Area soul drummer, Sly Randolph. He would go on to perform in Jazz Ensembles throughout High School and University, winning awards for his unique cross pollinations in eastern and western music – specifically his innate ability to transcribe Tabla rhythms, referred to as ‘Bols,’ to the Drumset. In 2005, Nilan made his debut duet performance in concert with his Father and sarangi master, Ramesh Misra, in Queens, New York; Later that year, the duo would go on to perform for the momentous occasion of Basant Bahar’s 25th anniversary celebration. He has had the privilege of sharing the stage with Hindustani Classical Music’s greatest treasures, such as maestros Alam Khan, Ud. Shujaat Khan, Pt. Ramesh Misra, and Ud. Amjad Ali Khan in a constantly growing list of prestigious venues, such as Carnegie Hall, The Fillmore, The Monterey Pop Festival, and The Fox Theater. His collaborations also include crossover work with celebrated artists, Arjun Verma, Manik Khan, Gaayatri Kaundinya, Jack Perla, The Toronto Tabla Ensemble, members of Brooklyn Raga Massive, Dennis Chambers, Miles Schon, and DJ Teeko. In addition to maintaining a busy performing schedule, Nilan teaches Tabla throughout the Bay Area as a faculty member at the Ali Akbar College of Music, and as the Director of Percussion at Chitresh Das Institute.

Ivan Boogaloo Joe Jones, Black Whip (Prestige)

April 7, 2018: Indradeep Ghosh (violin), Indrajit Bannerjee (Sitar), Subratta Bhattacharya (tabla), Allen Public Library April 9, 2018: Patty Waters with Burton Greene and Barry Altschul, Meca, Houston April 12, 2018: Brad Mehldau, Paramount Theater, Austin April 13, 2018: Brad Mehldau, Cullen Theater, Houston Antonio Sanchez, Charline McCombs Empire Theater, San Antonio April 14, 2018: Brad Mehldau, University of Texas at Dallas April 14-15, 2018: Kenny Neal, Chris Thomas King, Lazy Lester, Jimmy Duck Holmes, Baton Rouge Blues Festival April 20, 2018: Rachella Parks-Washington, Main Street Arts Festival, Fort Worth April 22, 2018: Rahul Sharma (santoor) and Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), Austin April 26, 2018: Sona Jobarteh, Sidi Toure, Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette Joe Louis Walker, Antone's, Austin April 27, 2018: Ron Carter Trio, Christian Scott, Sidi Toure, Calvin Johnson, Bobby Rush, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Joe Louis Walker, Big Beat Dallas, Irving Randy Brecker, Rachella Parks-Washington, Denton Arts and Jazz Festival Sona Jobarteh, Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette April 28, 2018: Charles Lloyd and the Marvels, Delfeayo Marsalis Presents the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Butler Bernstein and the Hot 9, Trumpet Mafia, Sona Jobarteh and Band (Gambia), Aurora Nealand, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Conrad Herwig, Starr Theater, Fayetteville, Arkansas Rahul Sharma (santoor) and Aditya Kalyanpur (tabla), Houston Otis Taylor, Big Beat Dallas, Irving Sidi Toure, Jupiter and Okwess, Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette April 29, 2018: Kidd Jordan and the Improvisational Arts Quintet, Henry Butler Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton, Nicholas Payton, Kenny Neal with Henry Gray and Lazy Lester, Panorama Jazz Band, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Jupiter and Okwess, Festival Internationale de Louisiane, Lafayette May 3, 2018: Archie Shepp Quartet, Jamil Sharif, Terrace Martin, Toronzo Cannon, Jeremy Davenport, Wendell Brunious, Tatiana Eva-Marie, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 4, 2018: Marcus Miller, Wessel Anderson, Jupiter and Okwess International (Congo), Little Freddie King, Lil Buck Sinegal, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Brian Seeger's Organic Trio, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Tatiana Eva-Marie, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 5, 2018: Sean Jones, Lurrie Bell, Jupiter and Okwess International, Louis Ford and His New Orleans Flairs, Astral Project, Blodie's Jazz Jam, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival May 6, 2018: Terence Blanchard featuring the E Collective, Leroy Jones, Buddy Guy, Mr. Sipp, Joe Dyson, Ellis Marsalis, Walter Wolfman Washington, Lakou Mizak (Haiti), Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Ganesh and Kumaresh (violins), Bates Recital Hall, Austin May 13, 2018: Vid. Sashank, Unity Church of Dallas Buddy Guy, Verizon Theater, Grand Prairie May 16, 2018: Buddy Guy, Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center, Midland May 17, 2018: Buddy Guy, Moody Theater, Austin May 18, 2018: Buddy Guy, Majestic Theater, San Antonio May 19: 2018: Debashish Bhattacharya (slide guitar), Nilan Chaudhuri (tabla), Allen Public Library June 20, 2018: Broken Shadows (Tim Berne, Dave King, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson), The North Door, Austin July 6, 2018: Eddie Turner, Tall City Blues Festival, Midland July 7, 2018: Kenny Neal, Vanessa Collier, Tall City Blues Festival, Midland July 16, 2018: Ronu Majhumdar (flute), Tony Bose (sarod), Jones Hall, Houston September 19, 2018: Fred Hersh, Trinity University, San Antonio September 22, 2018: Divine Trio, Allen Public Library September 28, 2018: Stanley Clarke, One World Theater, Austin October 6, 2018: Sweekar Etawah, Imdad Khani Harana (sitars), Houston April 11, 2019: Stanley Jordan, One World Theater, Austin

Sameer Gupta, A Circle has no Beginning

Sona Jobarteh, Fasiya (West African Guild)

I have a copy of Stan Getz at the Shrine on Norgran which is a box set. There are only two LPs in the box, but also a booklet with nice photos of Getz. Also, there is the Riverside History of Classic Jazz.

At Southern Methodist University, I recollect Mingus performing Free Cell Block F/Duke Ellington's of Love/For Harry Carney/Devil Blues. The version of For Harry Carney was incredible. At far as I can tell, the nearest he ever came to Texas again was the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Charles Mingus 1976-04-18 Jazz Tent 2:00 PM Charles Mingus 1977-04-20 The President 8:00 PM Charlie Mingus Quintet 1976-04-17 Municipal Auditorium 8:00 PM

I'm confusing vocal songs--Marcus Belgrave is on the vocal version of Duke Ellington's Sounds of Love on Changes.

Marcus Belgrave is also on the album.

I had no expectations, as it was the first Mingus record I ever heard when I bought it in 1974. From the very first track on the very first listen, I found it immediately gripping, and nothing has changed since.

The festival iPhone app was updated today.

Duke Ellington, 1939 (Smithsonian Collection) Elvin Jones, Merry Go Round (Blue Note) Kenny Burrell, Night Song (Verve)

I sure wish Dallas had an organization like Nameless Sound or Epistrophy Arts.