Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes: Ali Akbar Khan

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Thursday, 22 November 2018

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan - Ragas - Double LP released in France in 1973

Here recordings which have been released quite a number of times by different labels with different covers. The same double LP was also published the same year (1973) with a different cover in the US. Originally the recordings were published as two individual LPs. The Jugalbandi LP was orginally released in 1960 in India as EALP 1251 (the very first LP published by The Gramophone Company of India) and in 1964 by Prestige in the US. There was also a widely distributed edition by Transatlantic Records in London from 1969.

The second LP - a solo LP by Ali Akbar Khan - was orginally published in India in 1963 as EALP 1274 and in the US by Prestige in 1965.
The inside of the gatefold album only has advertising for other albums from the label. That is why we didn't scan it.

LP 1 & Scans - flac
LP 1 & Scans - mp3

LP 2 - flac
LP 2 - mp3

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Ali Akbar Khan - Music from India Series 5 - LP released in UK in 1966

This LP was also released the same year in India. What is strange about the UK edition is that in the liner notes Mahapurush Misra is stated as being the Tabla player on this record. Whereas on the labels of the LP and on the Indian edition Shankar Ghosh is stated to be the Tabla player.

Perhaps somebody knows the two Tabla players well enough to be able to tell us with certainty who of the two players is accompanying here Ali Akbar Khan.

I just spoke to a disciple of Mahapurush Mishra and he said that for sure it is not Mahapurush Mishra.

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mp3

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Ali Akbar Khan - Soul of the Sarod - LP released in New York in 1982

Here the 13th LP by Ali Akbar Khan on our blog.

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mp3

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan - Duets - LP published in UK in 1965

This is one of the very first LPs I bought around 1970. I loved it very much, especially Ali Akbar Khan's playing, and played it many many hundreds of times. This is the UK edition. It was published the same year also in India as EASD 1296.

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Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Ali Akbar Khan (1922-2009) - Sarod - Raga Ahir Bhairav - Raga Durgeshwari - LP published in India in 1973

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Friday, 16 January 2015

Ali Akbar Khan (1922-2009) - Sarod - LP published in 1967 in India

Another beautiful LP by the great master - the 10th we post here on this blog. I received this one - which I used to have in the 1970s as a LP, but later only as a copy on CD - recently as an additional free LP when I ordered some LPs in India. The condition of the LP itself and of the cover is not the very best, unfortunately.

Tabla: Shankar Ghosh