True Bromance
Philip Clark: Ravi Shankar’s Ragas, 15 July 2021
Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
by Oliver Craske.
Faber, 672 pp., £12.99, June,978 0 571 35086 5 Show More
by Oliver Craske.
Faber, 672 pp., £12.99, June,
“... George Avakian, the head of popular music at Columbia Records who had signed Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, heard Shankar play at New York Town Hall and invited him to record for the label, which resulted in The Sounds of India. Also present was Richard Bock, head of Pacific Jazz in Los Angeles, who recorded Shankar when he visited the West Coast a ... ”