Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ Speaking of Music: Jai Uttal, 1 of 2
Digital Audio
Event Type
Interview and MusicOrigin
C AmirkhanianIdentifier
SOM.1991.11.11.AProgram Series
Speaking of MusicProgram Length
137 minPart
1 of 2Dates
| broadcast| 1991-11-11 | created
Description
Charles Amirkhanian interviews Jai Uttal on Novemeber 11, 1991 as part of the San Francisco Exploratorium’s Speaking of Music series. Uttal talks about his trips to India and what types of music he encountered there, including temple singers from Northern India, Gypsy singers, and the Bauls of Bengals. India is a country where music permeates the air be it chants of the names of the Gods coming out of the temples, street musicians, or the pop songs of Bollywood, and Uttal made sure to sample it all. Uttal also describes and demonstrates an assortment of traditional Indian instruments and introduces a number of recordings of traditional and popular Indian music. But best of all, the program opens and concludes with a set of live music performed by the Jai Uttal Septet, which is not to be missed by any fan of Indian music.Genres
World musicMusical Selections
[untitled piece] (4:18) / Jai Uttal -- Footprints (6:10) / Jai Uttal -- Pesto (7:20) / Jai Uttal -- [Kirtan chants performed by temple singers in India] (2:24) -- [unidentified piece] (3:16) / Reshma -- [street chants by the Bauls of Bengal] (2:47) -- Hey Ram (8:02) / Jai UttalPerformers
Jai Uttal Septet: (all Uttal pieces)Jai Uttal, vocals, dotar
Peter Apfelbaum, drums
Will Bernard, guitar
Peck Allmond, trumpet, saxophone
Daniel Paul Karp, tabla
Bruce Linde, bass guitar
Rob Vlack, keyboards
Subjects
World musicMusic -- India
Acknowledgment
Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.Related place
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)Related Entities
Jai Uttal SeptetBauls of Bengal
Amirkhanian, Charles
Uttal, Jai
Apfelbaum, Peter
Bernard, Will
Allmond, Peck
Karp, Daniel
Linde, Bruce
Vlack, Rob
Reshman
Reshma