Date: July 22, 2012
Venue: house concert in the Upper West Side
Next show: August 1, at 8pm. Details here.
Review by Dawoud Kringle and photos by Marcus Simpson
Indian classical music is based essentially on vocal music. It is a widely held belief among the genre’s masters that without an understanding of vocal music, one cannot ever properly perform a raga. Arabic music, African, and some jazz (such as Dexter Gordon, who refused to play a song unless he knew the lyrics) all hold this to be true. So, when one is listening to a raga sung by a master, one is assured one is getting the real thing.
