Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Raga Nat Bhairav (Live at Sawai, 1982)

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan performing Raga Nat Bhairav, at the Sawai Gandharva Mahotsava in Pune,1982. Accompanied by his son, Aashish Khan on the Sarod, and Zakir Hussain on Tabla.

[@aashishkhan8589]

This was my only concert at the Sawai Gandharva Mahotsava, with my Baba, they never asked me to play SOLO, I would love to play in the SGM in future.

[@timepass-eh6iv]

You deserve to play solo Sir 🙏

[@sumitbasu5313]

Simply Devine!

[@swayamhiremath1066]

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan student Rajeev taranath accompany baba on tanpura

[@suvrat]

Fantastic performance! Thanks for uploading Abhishek! 🙏

[@swayamhiremath1066]

Ustad Ali Akbar Khan student Rajeev taranath accompany Baba on tanpura

[@Prof_Hazra_IIT]

Hats off to all the three geniuses here....Ustad Aliakbar Khan saheb, the swarsamrat in full felicity and the mind-blowing genius of the young Ustad Zakir Hussain. Zakir ji's accompaniment stands out, no wonder he has been one of the most revered maestros since early 1980's.

[@chhayanat1]

Indeed a marvellous performance by the trio!
But gone are the days when real tanpuraas used to be used as drone for a sitar/sarod performance. 😔
Don't you think, Dr. Hazra?

[@Prof_Hazra_IIT]

@@chhayanat1 Top grade artistes (puritans) will still use real tanpuras. Its an absolute must for any decent Indian classical music rendition. Yes there are electronic tanpuras. But they are useless. In recent times Ken Zuckerman patented a wonderful semi automatic-semi manual tanpura which has a wonderful timbre and produces great quality sound.

[@chhayanat1]

@@Prof_Hazra_IIT True! But I have rarely come across such musicians, especially sitar and sarod players. Most instrumentalists will resort to electronic tanpura, very rarely an acoustic ‘tanpuri', but not larger, full size tanpuras.
And yes, Ken ji's automatic tanpura is amazing! He's named it ‘Shanti’.

[@Prof_Hazra_IIT]

@@chhayanat1 Very true !

[@jayantmudgal7390]

पणणहनोनमढन ढन वढ नॅढम नम नमोन ढम ढमनननन नमढ

[@rababranjan]

Many Many Thanks for such a great music collection.
I have no words for this.
They are GOD.
Cheers!
T

[@prasannasohale9547]

Great presentation

[@mmypainting]

I guess I am one of the many who have had the good fortune to study with both AAKhansahib and AKhansahib. I never stop absorbing their greatness but never get enough to stick either.

[@aashishkhan8589]

Ken Wells Hi Ken,
Where are you? WE lost contact, please write to my E/ ID
[e-mail]

[@the420aditya]

thank you so much for this gem!

[@harshad6489]

Great. Thanks a lot Abhishekji for sharing.

[@kiyoto123]

so so beautifull .thanks a lot for share that Sir,very impressive !

[@medhavi1997]

Excellent. Is some part lost at the end

[@mahimasinha3007]

hats off 😃

[@parthadey5197]

I think Ali Akbarji is the last word on sarod.

[@reuelchinthala]

Then you have not heard Abhishek Brokar

[@avkmohan4383]

Agree 100%@Partha Dey

[@gauravbabar423]

Rasa Rishi