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Thanks to dedicated efforts, the much-anticipated jazz festival returned after a quiet three-year break, at the Dalhousie Institute

One of the founding members of the legendary Mohiner Ghoraguli, Bishu Chattopadhyay, on how music rescued him during the lockdown

  >>Sameer Yasir, The New York Times  Published: 07 May 2021 01:07 PM BdST Updated: 07 May 2021 01:07 PM BdST Soli Sorabjee. Photo taken via Facebook. Soli Sorabjee was 18 when he walked into a record store in Bombay, as Mumbai was then called, and asked for a recording of the Hungarian Dances by Brahms. At home, he took a listen. "); } “I found it nothing like Brahms at all,” he told a television interviewer. “So many different sounds.” But he liked the tune on the presumably unlabelled or mislabelled record and played it again, and then a third time. “It happened to be ‘Tig...

From jazz to hip hop, Afro-South Asian music collaborations reflect imagined, more liberatory worlds A conversation with Elliott Powell, author of ‘Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music’. Hip hop singer Missy Elliott at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux. | Valentin Flauraud/Reuters Afro-South Asian (American) musical alliances demonstrate an “other side” of Black life, history, and politics, argues Elliott Powell in his new book, Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music...