Milind Date: Bansuri player
04/01/23 • 95 min
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I’m delighted to feature the master bansuri player Milind Date, who joined me from his home in Pune, India, and played his flutes as well as shared his perspectives from his life in music. As always, check the timestamps below for both the music and the many topics we covered. Milind spoke to me about his studies with the legendary Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, of his fusion projects especially in South Korea, he had a great story about a memorable concert he played in Toronto, he talked about his extensive travels in India and internationally. He has a large and varied discography, and has composed music for many films: https://www.milind.date/
Like all my episodes, this is available both as a podcast and video, with a transcript all linked to my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/milind-date-bansuri-player
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:46) bansuri flute
(03:28) Sunand Bhairav
(04:50) early rock music influences, fusion music Hariprasad Chaurasia
(11:01) Korean tours and collaborations
(17:59) solo 6 month trip in India 2021
(26:11) folk tune from Uttarakhand region
(30:01) different folk traditions in India
(32:18) Milind’s collection of flutes in different keys
(35:01) differences between Hindustani and Carnatic music
(38:09) system of gharanas, studies with Hariprasad Chaurasia
(55:49) Zakir Hussain
(01:05:31) writing film music, notation, Western classical musicians
(01:11:31) around the world tour 2013
(01:12:58) performances in Canada
(01:20:00) music as meditation
(01:23:14) teaching and learning
(01:29:56) flute performance
I’m delighted to feature the master bansuri player Milind Date, who joined me from his home in Pune, India, and played his flutes as well as shared his perspectives from his life in music. As always, check the timestamps below for both the music and the many topics we covered. Milind spoke to me about his studies with the legendary Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, of his fusion projects especially in South Korea, he had a great story about a memorable concert he played in Toronto, he talked about his extensive travels in India and internationally. He has a large and varied discography, and has composed music for many films: https://www.milind.date/
Like all my episodes, this is available both as a podcast and video, with a transcript all linked to my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/milind-date-bansuri-player
Please help me continue this series! https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:46) bansuri flute
(03:28) Sunand Bhairav
(04:50) early rock music influences, fusion music Hariprasad Chaurasia
(11:01) Korean tours and collaborations
(17:59) solo 6 month trip in India 2021
(26:11) folk tune from Uttarakhand region
(30:01) different folk traditions in India
(32:18) Milind’s collection of flutes in different keys
(35:01) differences between Hindustani and Carnatic music
(38:09) system of gharanas, studies with Hariprasad Chaurasia
(55:49) Zakir Hussain
(01:05:31) writing film music, notation, Western classical musicians
(01:11:31) around the world tour 2013
(01:12:58) performances in Canada
(01:20:00) music as meditation
(01:23:14) teaching and learning
(01:29:56) flute performance
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Destiny Muhammad: Jazz Harpist and Composer and her inspiring personal story
I was so honoured to have this opportunity to talk with the inspiring Destiny Muhammad, who is a California-based jazz harpist and composer. You’ll get to hear inspiring stories from her life as well as her music. She had a dream to play the harp but didn’t have the opportunity until she was 30 years old. She speaks openly about the challenges in the 1980s due to the crack cocaine trade, her success as a barber, her determination and mentors including John Handy, and her unique perspectives in celebrating the legacies of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. When we recorded the episode, I experienced an incredible private concert including several of her original tunes. However, after we listened to the tracks, we agreed it would be even better if she were to record the music separately to have the best possible harp sound, which she generously agreed to do.
Like all my episodes this is available as both as a video and a podcast, with transcript: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/destiny-muhammad-jazz-harpist
Destiny Muhammad website: https://destinymuhammad.net/
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(03:29) Algorithms (harp)
(05:18) Destiny’s start on the harp, Stephanie Kaufman Osborne
(09:55) learning jazz, Dorothy Ashby, Alice Coltrane, Khalil Shaheed
(15:22) John Handy
(20:16) Alice Coltrane tribute concerts SF Jazz
(26:45) Dorothy Ashby
(31:37) If it’s magic (harp)
(36:06) Shirley Muramoto, San Francisco Symphony
(37:00) Amateur Music Network, SF Jazz community jam sessions,
(40:37) Teaching jazz, teaching music
(53:14) creative process
(59:15) tribute to Rosie Lee Tompkins
(01:08:40) lessons learned from running a barbershop
(01:21:20) growing up in the projects, dealing with bigotry
(01:25:51) compositions for orchestra, Matt Wong arranger
(01:29:06) Coltrane (harp)
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Philip Griffin
Philip Griffin is an amazingly versatile, creative, and generous musician. He plays, improvises, and composes in many styles on many different instruments. During this episode you’ll hear him play the rebab, the ukulele, and guitar in his duo with violinist Jude Iddison. He reflects on his work teaching children and people with disabilities, and reflects on some of his important mentors including Richard Gill, Linsey Pollak and Ross Daly. In the video version, I’ve included a slide show of some of his amazing nature photography, which is also on my website linked to this episode, and the link for Philip’s website and Facebook page are also included below. In this conversation with Philip, I was really happy to be able to talk about some of the themes I find most interesting as a musician: education, creativity, and mentorship. Philip was introduced to me by Linsey Pollak, and I hope if you missed his episode that you’ll check it out: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/linsey-pollak
Like all my episodes, this is available as a video, and the transcript is linked here as well as some of his amazing nature photographs: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/philip-griffin
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https://philipgriffin.bandcamp.com/album/banksia
https://www.philipgriffin.com/
https://www.facebook.com/philip.griffin.7106
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(02:30) Linsey Pollak
(06:02) talking about different instruments laouto, oud, rebab, banjo
(10:24) Ross Daly, studying Turkish music
(17:10) introduction to the rebab
(20:24) rebab improv
(23:26) Ross Daly, tours to Australia with Kelly Thoma
(25:43) Linsey Pollak, learning modal music
(29:23) Ricahrd Gill, learning conducting, singing
(41:13) Tutti Arts, Pat Rix, and working with musicians with disabilities
(53:25) music educator in schools
(57:45) ukulele, New Zealand music programs Mary Cornish Maria Winder Kiwilele
(01:07:38) Pat Megowan luthier
(01:11:25) Renaissance guitar music by Tourdion on ukulele
(01:12:46) Affetto Early Music ensemble
(01:16:27) Dominique Schwartz: why Philip moved around so much!
(01:18:59) Banksia album with Jude Iddison
(01:19:31) violin Jude Iddison: Planting the Garlic/Philip’s Wardrobe from album Banksia
(01:24:32) meeting Jude and making the album
(01:27:15) Frogs, birds, Barry Wilson, photography (with slide show), Glen Storr
(01:36:08) Philip’s advice
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