Celebrate Ravi Shankar’s 90th Birthday with 5 CDs Ravi Shankar turns 90 today. He was born April 7, 1920 in Benares, India. Tonight, April 7, we’ll feature an interview with the sitar master on Echoes. His impact on Indian music is undeniable. His impact on world music is still being calculated, but may be even…
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Jack Rose Remembered
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-JackRose.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThere’s a good article called Remembering an Acoustic Artist by Joel Rose (no relation) about Jack Rose, the iconoclastic acoustic guitarist who passed away December 5, 2009. The article is online at the Philadelphia Inquirer It also points to a set of memorial concerts with some really great…
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Urban Nature’s World Fusion: Echo Location
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http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20091021.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe Perils of Growing Up Echoes with Urban Nature Ramesh and I both grew up listening to Echoes and I remember being a teenager and listening to Echoes as I’d fall asleep at night. And so being exposed to Windham Hill and I’d go into the record store…
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Ali Akbar Khan Plucks His Last String
Echoes remembers Ali Akbar Khan (April 14,1922-June 19, 2009) Ali Akbar Khan is one of the only Indian musicians whose name is spoken in the same breathe as Ravi Shankar. He plays the Indian stringed instrument called the sarod and since his American debut in 1955 playing duets with classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he’s been…