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- | # Amjad Ali Khan at Miner Auditorium, September 19, 2013 | ||
- | [Amjad Ali Khan](http:// | ||
- | 2013-09-19 | ||
- | [Miner Auditorium](http:// | ||
- | [SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA](http:// | ||
- | 7:30 PM, Thursday, September 19, 2013 | ||
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- | ## Set One | ||
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- | [7:30 PM lights down, Introduction by ?house sound; musicians enter -- first the tabla players, then Amjad Ali Khan; tuning; banter] | ||
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- | 1. [7:38 PM] ? | ||
- | 2. [7:47 PM] Rag Durga | ||
- | 3. [8:00 PM] ? Rag Zirakaffy | ||
- | 4. [8:14 PM] ? (unidentified Tarana) » | ||
- | 5. [8:19 PM] ? fast rag ? | ||
- | [set ends 8:24 PM] | ||
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- | ## Set Two | ||
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- | [8:45 PM lights down, musicians enter, intro banter, tuning] | ||
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- | 1. [8:50 PM, no pop] ? » | ||
- | 2. [9:00 PM] ? » | ||
- | 3. [9:m PM] ? | ||
- | 4. [9:25 PM add pop; tuning; 9:30 PM go] Rag Kirwani | ||
- | [set ends 9:43 PM] | ||
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- | ** No Encore** | ||
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- | ## Performers | ||
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- | * [Amaan Ali Khan](http:// | ||
- | * [Amjad Ali Khan](http:// | ||
- | * [Ayaan Ali Khan](http:// | ||
- | * [Salar Nader](http:// | ||
- | * [Vineet Vyas](http:// | ||
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- | ## Notes | ||
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- | Even with introductions before most of the tunes, I had a very hard time catching the titles; must be going deaf or something! And although the tala was identified, discussed or otherwise mentioned occasionally, | ||
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- | Anyways, I really enjoyed how things unfolded tonight. The first set proceeded at a fairly slow, stately pace. While I missed hearing a long exploratory solo alap like Ali Akbar Khan used to do, I expected Amjad Ali Khan to play with his own style, and I enjoyed it despite it's difference from the pattern set by my previous listening experience. I was also surprised to note how different the playing of the two drummers was from one another. The reason for this was later revealed when Amjad mentioned later on in the show that each of the two came from distinctly different schools of practice. Being somewhat uncultured as far as tabla pedagogy goes, I can't even begin to say anything worthwhile about the difference that I noted. The best I can do right now is to say that Nader played with a more rapid-fire, fluttery style than Vyas, who's time-keeping was marked by more emphatic contrast between the hand-heel strikes and the finger strikes. | ||
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- | Because the house wasn't more than 2/3 full, we took the opportunity to move downstairs at setbreak to the center of row G, and I noticed some very interesting difference between the two locations. In terms of vision, from upstairs, the performers appeared to be tiny radiant beings, bursting out of the surrounding darkness. From downstairs, the performers seemed far more human and the drop-off in stage lighting was not nearly as noticeable. It's entirely possible that the house lights weren' | ||
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- | Getting back to the show, Amaan and Ayaan performed with a somewhat frisky, more flashy approach than their father. Amaan particularly seemed to delight in making astonishingly fast runs and ferocious bends. I didn't catch their transition to a third raga -- probably because they'd said they were going to do two -- but upon finishing that part of the set, Ayaan apologized for seguing into a new tune without warning us. I guess that's just how it goes sometimes. | ||
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- | Amjad Ali Khan then joined his sons for a final tune, _Rag Kirwani_. After a brief solo development from Amjad, he began to trade licks with Amaan, who responded with remarkably perfect imitations. When it came to Ayaan' | ||
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- | And while I was slightly disappointed that we weren' | ||
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