Pran Nath

...the public three days a week. In 1970, Zazeela began studies in the Kirana school of Hindustani classical music with Pandit Pran Nath, of whom she has been a devoted disciple ever since. (Pandit Pran Nath died in 1996.) She performs...

In this article: Marian Zazeela, Pandit Pran Nath, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, New York City, Catherine Christer Hennix, Bucknell University Press, Paul Feeley, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and Bennington College

Pandit Pran Nath (Devanagari:पंडित प्राणनाथ) (3 November 1918 - 13 June 1996) was a Hindustani classical singer and teacher of the Kirana gharana (school), with a successful American career. Pran Nath was born into a wealthy family in...

In this article: Pandit Pran Nath, Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, United States, Douglas Leedy, and Michael Harrison

...and yet the ambient nature of his work often lands his discs in the new age racks. Hassell studied with Stockhausen and Pandit Pran Nath, played on the first recording of Terry Riley's In C, and collaborated with the likes of La Monte Young,...

In this article: Jon Hassell, In C, Blue Period, Miles Davis, Ambient, Rigor, and Gil Evans

...of Wahid Khan's students became renowned musicians. They included Sureshbabu Mane, Hirabai Badodekar, Begum Akhtar, Saraswatibai Rane, Pran Nath , Ram Narayan, Shakoor Khan, and Mohammed Rafi. Khan influenced Amir Khan . Khan and Abdul...

In this article: Abdul Karim Khan, Begum Akhtar, and Mohammed Rafi

...School in the late 1970s, and began investigating alternative tunings while studying Indian classical music with Pandit Pran Nath in this same period (Wise 2005). In 1986, he designed and created the "harmonic piano," an extensively...

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...In C) and La Monte Young. In the early '70s he accompanied Riley on a visit to India to study with classical singer Pandit Pran Nath, where his ears were further opened to non-Western music. In India he began to develop his strikingly...

In this article: Brian Eno, IPod, Charlie Kaufman, Terry Riley, Miles Davis, Western music, Ambient, and Oxygen

...Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Sunny Murray, Philip Glass, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Alan Silva, Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra. The records often carry, besides the name Shandar, also the logo...

In this article: Shandar, La Monte Young, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, The Wire, Alan Silva, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Charlemagne Palestine, Philip Glass, and Pandit Pran Nath

...recordings, built around a completely unique vocal" trumpet style (developed in studies with Indian vocal master, Pandit Pran Nath) have inspired a generation of collaborators like Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Kronos Quartet and Ry...

In this article: Jon Hassell, Pandit Pran Nath, Ry Cooder, ECM, Paolo Fresu, Ronu Majumdar, Arve Henriksen, and Erik Truffaz

Through his initial recordings with minimalist visionaries La Monte Young and Terry Riley, he met Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath, whose teaching encouraged Hassell to invent a new way of playing his trumpet, one that would hybridize...

In this article: Jon Hassell, Karlheinz Stockhausen, UCLA, Les Baxter, Los Angeles Times, and La Monte Young

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1937, Hassell fine-honed the art of "vocal trumpet" after meeting Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath. His technique of rousing ethereal, digitally altered trumpet lines forms the basis of what Hassell calls...

In this article: Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, Prague, Miles Davis, Pandit Pran Nath, E-mail, The Guardian, In C, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Lloyd Cole