Ravi Shankar (RIP)

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Dec 2012 9:16 pm

So sorry to hear this news.

http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/sita ... 190878.ece

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 11 Dec 2012 9:55 pm

As was I.

Chris Boyd · Post by **Chris Boyd** » 12 Dec 2012 5:25 am

Very sad news...but what a well lived life!

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 12 Dec 2012 5:35 am

I have to admit that I didn't appreciate or understand the influence Ravi Shankar was having on the Beatles, while it was happening. However, I came to admire his work some years later. May he rest in eternal peace.

Jim Saunders · Post by **Jim Saunders** » 12 Dec 2012 7:06 am

I've heard that Nora Jones is his daughter. She is an incredibly talented singer and pianoist.

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 12 Dec 2012 8:51 am

I didn't know that, she IS an incredible talent.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 12 Dec 2012 11:23 am

It's true about Nora, though they were never a family.
She was raised by her Mom and didn't connect with her bio-dad until later in life.

Jim Means · Post by **Jim Means** » 13 Dec 2012 12:02 pm

Rick Barnhart wrote:I have to admit that I didn't appreciate or understand the influence Ravi Shankar was having on the Beatles, while it was happening. However, I came to admire his work some years later. May he rest in eternal peace.

Rick, it was exactly the same for me as well. I had been a big Beatle fan and when they introduced him I thought, "what in the world is going on". I came to appreciate that sound and some songs of that time, even by other artists, may not have become the hits they were without that very unusual sound.

Jim in Missouri

Susan Alcorn (deceased) · Post by **Susan Alcorn (deceased)** » 13 Dec 2012 5:18 pm

Ravi Shankar was definitely getting up in the years, but still this is sad news - one more thing bringing an era to an end. I first heard his music in the late sixties when on the album, with Yehudi Menuhin, "East Meets West"that my parents had bought (I remember Yehudi Menuhin's death too - I was driving at the time). I was fascinated by Mr. Shankar's music and his technical virtuosity, and that led me down a long road over some years when I studied Indian classical music (for a Westerner like me, a bottomless pit). I also remembered seeing him play on a video a few years ago, thinking that without the pyrotechnics and virtuosic frenzy, his music sounded even better - more complete.

He is one luminary who will never be forgotten.

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 14 Dec 2012 5:31 pm

Seeing this performance before I was even a teenager has had an impact on my entire musical life-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk60Obnb ... r_embedded

I had no idea what was going on, but I knew it would be forever part of my musical makeup.
Profound impact on me to say the least....

Jay