More on Brubeck Pakistan and India connection ...
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Sometime in the '60s Rodrigues played with big-name jazz player Dave
Bubeck. "I felt so important (during the collaborative performance) at
Denso Hall," he said. ( ed - likely 1958 )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denso_Hall
http://www.meridian.org/jazzambassadors/dave_brubeck/dave_brubeck.php
The 1958 State Department tour of jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck
and his integrated classic Quartet, with saxophonist Paul Desmond,
drummer Joe Morello, and bassist Eugene Wright, marked the first foray
of the Jazz Ambassadors across the Iron Curtain. The group began the
trip after a commercial gig in Stockholm, traveling through East Germany
to Poland, and from there to Turkey, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, and
Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five
"Take Five" is a jazz piece written by Paul Desmond and performed by The
Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. The inspiration for
this style of music came during a US State Department
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_State_Department> sponsored tour of
Eurasia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia> and Brubeck observed in
Turkey <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey> a group of street musicians
performing a traditional Turkish folk song that was played in 9/8 time,
a rare meter for Western music. After learning about the form from
native symphony musicians, Brubeck was inspired to create an album that
deviated from the usual 4/4 time of Jazz and experimented in the more
exotic such styles he experienced
abroad.^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Five#cite_note-3>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/arts/music/29kapl.html
When Ambassadors Had Rhythm
HALF a century ago, when America was having problems with its image
during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States
representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony
orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the
State Department. Let the world experience what he called "real
Americana": send out jazz bands instead.
http://www.tajmahalfoxtrot.com
This book tells the story of India -- and especially the city of
Bombay -- through the lives of a menagerie of geniuses, strivers and
eccentrics, both Indian and American, who helped jazz find a home in the
sweaty subcontinent.
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197704/jazz.caravan.htm
Other tour coverage
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2012-weekly/nos-19-08-2012/kol.htm (scroll
down)
Karachi by night. The hotels of the bygone era not only represented
communal harmony, plurality and frustration-free youth but also promoted
the local music industry and local musicians and artistes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kCahl0eQgw
Great Photo Collection. Legendary Musicians of Karachi (LMK) 60s-70s
(mostly Goan examples)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk3l-a_Gj9E
And Legendary Musicians of Karachi (LMK) 40s-50s
Also:
http://lmkonline.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/lmkgroup
Great video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1S_vA0ougg
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Belgium 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA5UEGKZoGA
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Pour Tous in Belgium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIO6T7im40
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Gehört und Gesehen in Germany
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