Auckland, New Zealand – Two decades of controlled, disciplined and immensely alluring onstage performances and years later The Netherlands-based Tibetan classical/opera singer, song writer, poet…
The Nightingale glides again
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Jazz in Goa reaches out to the community!
Goa, India – There are no bounds to large heartedness, except a lack of imagination, and Armando Gonsalves of Heritage Jazz is a man brimming…
Saturday Nights at Gonsalves Mansion…..by Les Menezes
Saturday night, Gonsalves Mansion, Campal, a hundred plus keen Jazz lovers seated in a long Portuguese-style veranda fronting the home. Fairy tale lights, Hi-tech sound…
Jazz by the Beach
The sun dipped its soft red face into the Sea and a dark sky freckled with faint stars stepped in. A crescent moon made a…
Heritage Jazz Yatra to revitalise Heritage homes in Goa
A concept drops in a still pond. The ripples, believing in themselves, build into waves that overflow into an event. The Goa Heritage Jazz Yatra,…
The Spirit of Goa (Archives 2005)
Many years ago when on visit to the Continent, and more specifically the south of France, I realized what really made Goa tick. Natural beauty…
Jazz Goa keeps on jazzing (Archives 2004)
From the archives of Heritage Jazz: August 2004 Jazz Goa Keeps on Jazzin’ A report by Stanley Pinto Goa has provided India with some of…
Inspired by a blind musician
The more I meander through this beautiful jazz and fusion journey, the more I meet people of different hues, of different styles of thinking and…
World Music Central’s 2006 Holiday Gift Giving Guide
For the past year all of us here at World Music Central have pounded the pavement, scrounged through stacks of CDs and even occasionally rummaged…
The Life of Papanasam Sivan
Author: Ashok Ramani Papanasam Sivan was born as the second son of Ramamritha Ayer and Yogambal Ammal at Polagam in Tanjore District on 26.9.1890. His…