Special Reports
Recurring theme – musicians inured to mishandling of instruments
MUMBAI: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan may have been the unfortunate victim of an indifferent airline's mismanagement of luggage, but he's...
2010 set for surfeit of music awards
MUMBAI: The coming year may give a much needed boost to the music fraternity as three different music awards: the...
When the Jazz goes down
MUMBAI: With artistes like Wayne Krantz, Beatle Jazz, and an open air venue like the Priyadarshini Park – Mumbai's jazz...
Call ’em for the music
MUMBAI: They are the ones that create the music we keep playing on our phones and ipods. It's their tunes...
Music honours – too little, too late?
MUMBAI: Singing legend Manna Dey's contribution to music has been finally recognised by the nation at the age of 90...
Bollywood music – Reeling it in
Is Hindi film music, which takes the biggest pie of the music industry in India, getting better or worse over...
Indipop – missing in action
Remember Lucky Ali, Daler Mehndi, Alisha Chinai?Remember the magic they spun with their non film music back in the 80s...
Is the ghazal disappearing?
The number of ghazal singers has come down exponentially in the past decade or so. The few great singers who...
Femme power to the fore!
These women have shown that they are capable of holding their own in a sector oft dominated by men. In...
Rahman, Resul pave way for Indian musicians
MUMBAI: There's more to A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty's triumphs at the 81st Academy Awards today than the golden...
