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Brij Bhushan Kabra

Brij Bhushan Kabra

Brij Bhushan Kabra has been played on NTS shows including Raga Vibrations, with Ahir Bhairav Nat Bhairav first played on 8 April 2015.

Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra (Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 1937 – 12 April 2018) was an Indian musician who popularized the slide guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music.

Kabra was born in 1937 to Goverdhanlal Kabra in Jodhpur where he spent his youth. He was interested in sports and listened to Indian classical music but did not intend to become a musician and trained as a geologist. During a visit to Kolkata he discovered the Hawaiian lap slide guitar and convinced his father to let learn it by promising to only play classical music. Kabra then lived in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, learnt the instrument by imitating records, and later studied under Ali Akbar Khan. He modified the guitar by adding sympathetic and drone strings.

Kabra became the first Indian musician to play raga on the guitar, performed publicly, and recorded the successful album Call of the Valley (1967) with bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia and santoor player Shivkumar Sharma in 1960. The guitar was seldom used in Indian classical music, and his guitar playing gained popularity in the 1970s hippie culture. Kabra recorded solo albums and concentrated on teaching since the 1990s but continued to perform.

He was awarded the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1983–84, was made a fellow of the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi for 1995–96, and received the national Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2005.

Kabra died on 12 April 2018 in Ahmedabad, at age 81.

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Brij Bhushan Kabra

Brij Bhushan Kabra has been played on NTS shows including Raga Vibrations, with Ahir Bhairav Nat Bhairav first played on 8 April 2015.

Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra (Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 1937 – 12 April 2018) was an Indian musician who popularized the slide guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music.

Kabra was born in 1937 to Goverdhanlal Kabra in Jodhpur where he spent his youth. He was interested in sports and listened to Indian classical music but did not intend to become a musician and trained as a geologist. During a visit to Kolkata he discovered the Hawaiian lap slide guitar and convinced his father to let learn it by promising to only play classical music. Kabra then lived in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, learnt the instrument by imitating records, and later studied under Ali Akbar Khan. He modified the guitar by adding sympathetic and drone strings.

Kabra became the first Indian musician to play raga on the guitar, performed publicly, and recorded the successful album Call of the Valley (1967) with bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia and santoor player Shivkumar Sharma in 1960. The guitar was seldom used in Indian classical music, and his guitar playing gained popularity in the 1970s hippie culture. Kabra recorded solo albums and concentrated on teaching since the 1990s but continued to perform.

He was awarded the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1983–84, was made a fellow of the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi for 1995–96, and received the national Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2005.

Kabra died on 12 April 2018 in Ahmedabad, at age 81.

Original source Last.fm

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Ahir-Bhairav
Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Brijbhushan Kabra
His Master's Voice1968
Holi - The Festival of Colours
Brij Bhushan Kabra
EMI1985
Pinihari - The Water Maid
Brij Bhushan Kabra
EMI1985
Raga Bageshwari
Brij Bhushan Kabra, Zakir Hussain
His Master's Voice1984
Raga Alhaiya Bilawal
Brij Bhushan Kabra
His Master's Voice1980
Ahir Bhairav Nat Bhairav
Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra, Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hemisphere, EMI1995
Raga Puriya Alap (Part 1)
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Celluloid1984
Ahir Bhairav
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Musenalp1993
Raga : Pilu - Teentaal
Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pt. Brij Bhushan Kabra
Saregama, RPG2005