Interview with Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Javaid Ali Khan has kindly shared with us one of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan’s interviews - conducted by Uma Sharma - and we are posting it here:
Interview - Part I (wma)
Interview - Part II (wma)
On a geeky note, images at this site are now being managed with Picasa Web Albums instead of the Photopress plugin, which for all its charm and seamlessness was getting buggier with subsequent upgrades.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Truley an avtar of TAN SEN. He followed the same suit as he sung the actual gayeki of Gwalior. He sung everything beautifully but his two astais are my favourite. “Kinare Kinare” and “Allah jane, Mola jane, Ali Nabi per noor barse, Jag men Hassan Hussain do nain” belonging purely to Gwalior Gharana. He learnt from Khansaheb Ustad MUbarak ALi khan of Karachi and Sandhay khan(Shinde khan) as well. History will never see another vocalist like him ever again and thanks a million for uploading this interview.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
He was avtar of Tan Sen.No body will be able to match him not even come closer to him ever.What a fantastic job you have done to by posting this legend.
April 16th, 2007 at 3:59 am
The greatest musician ever, Bade Ghulam Ai Khan is incomparable. I was fortunate enough to attend his concerts in Madras on 2 occasions when I was 5 and 9 (in 1954 and 1958). On the second occasion I remember seeing almost all the Carnatic vidwans in attendance. Khan Saheb himself appeared very special, very short, with a big paunch and slow gait. I first listened to his records when I was 2. I have heard several great musicians since then but it was downhill all the way! My own Ustad (Imrat Khan saheb) has several interesting anecdotes about Bade Ghulam Saheb.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:06 am
He is an ocean, no limits to his sangeet.
He makes us cry, he heals us too, no wonder the moar was dancing.
Akbar-e Azam would be very sad up there, as to why he could not get him, somebody must have told him that BGAK belongs to us, the “public”.
Thank you, it was a gem.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:14 pm
This is great. Thank you.
Whose is the second male voice? Sounds like Balraj Sahani!!
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:05 pm
The interview was so fresh sounding as if it were recorded today. Ustad BGAK was very sincere and open, unlike some modern secretive musicians, who are so narrow minded. It’s a pity that the interviewer was not very imaginative in asking some more important and relevant questions.
Thanks for posting this and more recent updates. Keep up the great work in promoting our classical music, which we all know is a dying art due to overwhelming influence of pop (paap) music for the last 20 years or so.
Yours truly,
SHAUKAT HUSSAIN JANJUA
March 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I agree with Mr. Afzal Subhani Saheb, Just like Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Saheb’s music, his interview, a guide to music lovers
March 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
I am lucky to have spent a sizable portion of my life with my Ustad Khansahib Munawar Ali Khan and heard so much about Bade Khansahib. Later, Begum Allah Rakhi, Bade Khansahib’s wife too told me a lot about my Dada Ustad, but this recording was a unique experience. My stay with Begum Zahir Yaar Jung’s family at Hyderabad was also very enrichin. This interview has evoked all those wonderful memories. I could almost smell the aura of my ustad’s home in Kolkata or Mumbai or the atmosphere in Hyderabad or the lanes of Lahore.
March 20th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
This is trully great to listen to such interactive interviews with performers of the calibre of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Saheb.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Is similar literature available anywhere for great ustad barkat ali khan ?
What a voice ! Born once in a century or two.