Jazz in India

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Jazz music in India originated in the 1920s in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) and in Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), where African-American jazz musicians performed.[1] They inspired Goan musicians who then absorbed aspects of jazz into the sounds of India’s Hindi film music industry. There has been much interaction between Indian music and jazz music. An active jazz scene exists today in cities like Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Pune, Delhi, Goa, and Kolkata.

History

In India,

Bombay in the early or middle 1920s.[2][3] The era from the 1930s to the 1950s is often called as the golden age of jazz in India. It began with jazz musicians like Leon Abbey, Crickett Smith, Creighton Thompson, Ken Mac, Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford (who recorded with Louis Armstrong), and Rudy Jackson who toured India to avoid the racial discrimination they faced in the United States.[4] In the winter of 1935, Leon Abbey, a violinist from Minnesota brought the first 8-piece band to Bombay.[5]

In the 1930s, India’s freedom struggle against the British had reached a crucial stage. Bombay was a rising metropolis. There was also a great sense of political freedom, which was being transmitted into the arts. The ballrooms of five-star hotels and in the nightclubs of major Indian cities were jazz centres. As nationalism swept the country, these venues became the refuge of the European and Indian elite, the aristocrats, the moneyed and the public servants. During this period, musicians such as

Parsi
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Indo jazz

See also: Indo jazz and Sitar in jazz

Jazz and Indian classical music share some similarities, one of them being that they both involve improvisation. Musicians realised this and collaborations between Indian classical musicians and Western jazz musicians which had commenced in the 1940s led to the development of a new genre of music called Indo jazz consisting of jazz, classical and Indian influences. Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane, John Mayer and John McLaughlin were some of the pioneers of the fusion of jazz and Indian music.[8][9] Conversely, Indian classical music has also had a significant impact on a subgenre of jazz music known as free jazz.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "8th International Jazz Festival Delhi 2019". 6 October 2018.
  2. ^ Sahar Adil (2009-08-10). "Jazz Music and India, By Madhav Chari". Mybangalore.com. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
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  4. ISBN 9788174367594
  5. ^ "HIP DEEP INTERVIEW: Naresh Fernandes on Bombay's Jazz Age • Hip Deep • Afropop Worldwide". Archived from the original on 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  6. ^ "Mickey Correa – Taj Mahal Foxtrot". 2012-11-10. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  7. ^ "The Indian jazz age". Frontlineonnet.com. 2012-04-06. Archived from the original on 2012-04-11. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  8. ^ Satyajit Roychaudhury. "Indian Music and Jazz: Reflections of Form" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  9. ^ "All about 'Jazz'". The Times of India. 2009-09-26. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  10. ^ Rossi, Marc (2003-03-29). "The Influence of Indian Music on Jazz | The Current". Rain Computers. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  11. ^ "Jazz and the Subcontinent". Rootsworld.com. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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Further reading

  • Bradley Shope. American Popular Music in Britain's Raj. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016
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