Darbari Kanada - Bahadur Khan

Bahadur Khan - Sarod
Mahapurush Mishra - Tabla

Raga Darbari Kanada

Recorded on 15th February 1976 at Kalamandir, Kolkata, by Peter Hess

Produced by Günter Wick

This music was made available with the kind permission of Peter Hess

From Wikipedia
Ustad Bahadur Khan (born Bahadur Hossain Khan, 19 January 1931 – 3 October 1989) was an Indian sarod player and film score composer
Ustad] Bahadur Khan, a Bengali, was born in 19 January 1931 in Shibpur, Comilla, Bangladesh, (then British India). From a musical family, he was the son of the Indian classical musician Ayet Ali Khan and related to sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar. Khan first learnt to play the sarode from his father and his uncle Alauddin Khan in Maihar, before he finally settled in Calcutta. He also practiced vocal music and later collaborated with his cousins Ali Akbar Khan and Shrimati Annapurna Devi.
Khan's brothers Abed Hossain Khan and Mobarak Hossain Khan were also musicians and based in Bangladesh, and were the recipients from the Government of Bangladesh for their contributions to classical music. Bahadur Khan is the father of sitar player Kirit Khan, who died in 2006. One of his better-known students is the sarod player Tejendra Narayan Majumdar.
He died on 3 October 1989 in Calcutta, India. His eldest son Bidyut Khan continues to perform the sarod around the world.
Khan was a regular performer at the All India Radio, Radio Pakistan and Radio Bangladesh. He composed and directed music for many films by the legendary Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and featured in the following:
• Subarnarekha (The Golden Line).
• Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-clapped Star)
• Komal Gandhar (E Flat)
• Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and A Story)
• Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Named Titash)
• Nagarik (The Citizen)
• Shwet Mayur (White Peacock)
• Yekhane Dariye (Where I Am Standing)
• Trisandhyay (Three Twilights)
• Notun Pata (New Leaf)
• Garm Hava (Hot Winds, 1973)
Khan was a reputed teacher, and a faculty member for six months at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, USA, where he taught Indian classical music. His students include his son Bidyut Khan, nephew Shahadat Hossain Khan, Tejendranarayan Majumdar, Kalyan Mukherjee, Monoj Shankar and his nephew Khurshid Khan.
Every year, a one-day music festival takes place commemorating the death anniversary of the Khan in Calcutta, organized by the "Ustad Bahadur Khan Music Circle". In Bangladesh, his legacy is continued through the "Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Sangeet Niketon" (Ustad Ayet Ali Khan Memorial School of Music) - a music school in memory of his father Ayet Ali Khan - at their native village Shibpur.

Mahapurush Mishra (1932-1987) was a disciple of Pandit Anokhelal Mishra, a revered master of tabla. Mahapurush was a famous tabla accompanist to many topmost musicians and a professor at the Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He spent most of his time during the late 1960s in USA teaching, recording, and appearing widely in numerous classical music concerts. There are far too few of his tabla solos in circulation.
Longtime tabla master, sideman to the stars, and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s main accompanist throughout the better part of three decades until his death, Pandit Mahapurush Mishra has also appeared on the Beatles b-side of Lady Madonna, George Harrison’s The Inner Light (recorded in Bombay in January 1968 with the vocal tracks added in London the next month) as well as on Harrison’s Wonderwall soundtrack.