Hi All, An interesting post from Madhav Chari and an article by Hon. Soli Sorabjee.
venantius ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Madhav Chari <[email protected]> Date: Oct 18, 2009 8:43 PM Subject: Soli Sorabjee Article To: venantius pinto <[email protected]> VJP, This is a relatively recent article by Hon. Soli Sorabjee, the former Attorney General of India, written a little more than a month ago. Please forward to Goanet if you see fit. Apart from Soli's critical viewpoints on Indian political scene, it mentions the passing of Goan musician Anto Menezes, vibraphonist (vibraphone = a souped up version of a xylophone with a bigger sound) from Kolkata. It concludes with some nice positive comments by Soli on my work. FYI Anto's cousin, the late Tony Menezes was my piano teacher in my formative years in Kolkata. Anto was a very crucial part of the Kolkata jazz scene: both as a pianist and as a vibraphonist. Anto's brother Mosin Menezes is a jazz pianist currently living in Delhi. Funnily enough another relative of Anto (I think cousin, or may even be a brother, but much younger), Morris Menezes was my calculus teacher in the 11th standard at St.James School, Kolkata. The interesting thing about Morris Menezes was that he did not mind me bunking / cutting classes during school hours to go to his house on the school campus where he would put on for our listening pleasure classic jazz recordings from the 1950s and early 60s, and I can still remember some of the recordings to this date: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "Moanin' " (with Bobby Timmons on piano), Cannonball Adderley performing "Dis Hyeah" ("This Here"), early recording on the Impulse label of pianist McCoy Tyner playing a trio version of "Autumn Leaves" .....and at that time in India CDs did not exist, and none of this stuff was available on vinyl in any the local record stores (If one was lucky one may run into something at some second hand bin in Free School Street). Here is Soli Sorabjee's article: http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=The%20crazy%20statues%20of%20greed&artid=IN3WX53cFzU=&type= Bye for now, Madhav ------------------------------ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/>
