New covers created by Coltra (see comments):
With these very beautiful privately recorded Alaps we conclude our posts on Damodarlal Kabra. See here our other posts on the artist:
http://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.de/search/label/Damodarlal%20Kabra
We received these recordings recently from our friend KF. Many thanks to him for sharing.
"Ustad Ali Akbar Khan came to Jodhpur in 1944 as court musician of the erstwhile Marwar state and came across Damodarlal Kabra. Soon Kabra became Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's first disciple and started learning the fine notes of Maihar Gharana. His hard work and commitment for pure music found new dimensions under his Guru's teachings.
"Ustad Ali Akbar Khan came to Jodhpur in 1944 as court musician of the erstwhile Marwar state and came across Damodarlal Kabra. Soon Kabra became Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's first disciple and started learning the fine notes of Maihar Gharana. His hard work and commitment for pure music found new dimensions under his Guru's teachings.
Damodarlal Kabra loveably called 'Damoodada' never had quest for publicity.
He maintained a low profile instead. In 1956, he first played in Calcutta and
won a big acclaim there. In May 1959, his Sarod recital was first heard by the
Radio listeners across the country in Akashwani's National Programme of Music.
'Dada' always wanted to promote the rich Indian classical music. In 1957, he
founded "Rashtriya Kala Mandal' in Jodhpur. Many musicians worked here as
teachers, in this college and many great musicians have been students of this
college.
'Dada' passed away on 4th August, 1979. After hearing about this legendary
tabla player of Banaras Kishan Maharaj uttered " The front page of Ustad Ali
Akbar Khan's music has flown away". 'Dada' taught music to many people. His
disciples include Manju Mehta, Vikas Gupta, Amubhai Doshi, Imu Desai, Krishna
Mohan Bhatt and Laxmi Kant Doshi.
This humble and great musician always maintained a low profile, but his
music is still alive and his son Basant Kabra is a true representative of
this."
Damodarlal Kabra's only commercial LP (republished as a CD) was a Jugalbandi with his younger brother Brij Bhushan Kabra, today also available on many download and streaming services:
