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Kolkata: Tarun Bhattacharya, George Brooks and Joy Sarkar team up for Junction

21 Mar 2017, 09:20 am

Kolkata: Tarun Bhattacharya, George Brooks and Joy Sarkar team up for Junction
Kolkata, Mar 21 (NITN): The Tollygunge Clubs lawns witnessed a memorable evening of Jazz & Classical - Junction, featuring the Santoor Maestro Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya and the acclaimed US based Saxophone virtuoso George Brooks.

They were ably supported by Joy Sarkar on guitar and Pandit Shubhankar Banerjee on Tabla.

 

The evening began with Raag Kirwani, a prolonged and alaap and Gat in Jhanp Taal and Teen Tal.

 

It was followed by a solo by George Brooks playing a western melody in Raag Puriya Dhanashree.

Pandit

 

Bhattacharya followed this solo in Dhun, entitled Dreams, quickly following with Raag Charukeshi.

Brooks took

 

over from there with his solo rendition of western notes and finally the musicians played the famed bhajan of Vaishnava Janatu.

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