CT 4 -Sultan khan and indore gharana

Ustad Sultan Khan (15 April 1940 – 27 November 2011) was an Indian sarangi player and Classical vocalist

•  belonging to Indore Gharana.
• He was one of the members of the Indian fusion group Tabla Beat Science,
• with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell.
• He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honor, in 2010.

Indore gharana

• is one of the vocal gharanas of Indian classical music.
•  It was founded by Ustad Amir Khan,^[1] who studied the styles of Abdul Wahid Khan, Aman Ali Khan, Rajab Ali Khan and Abdul Karim Khan and amalgamated the essence of the styles of these four maestros with his own intellectual approach to music, and conceived the Indore gharana of music.

Characteristics of the Indore gharana include:

• slow-tempo raga development
• improvisation mostly in lower and middle octaves
• tendency towards serious and expansive (darbari) ragas
• emphasis on melody
• bol alap and sargam using merukhand patterns
• sparing application of murki and other embellishments to preserve introspective quality
• use of kan swaras (acciaccatura) in all parts of performance
• rare use of tihai
• careful enunciation of text of bandish - the bandish performance may or may not include antara
• multiple laya jatis in a single taan
• mixture of taan types in a single taan
• use of ruba'idar tarana (considered similar to chhota khyal)

After Amir Khan's death in a car accident in Kolkata in 1974, the Indore gharana has become a powerful stream in modern Hindustani music. Direct disciples of Amir Khan included Pandith Amarnath, Shankar Lal Mishra, Kankana Banerjee, Purvi Mukherjee, and others. However, a number of influential musicians including Sultan Khan have grown up in its folds.

[edit] Prominent exponents

• Amir Khan
• Pandit Amarnath
• Munir Khan
• Sultan Khan (musician)
• Shanti Sharma^[6]
• Singh Bandhu
• Kankana Banerjee ^[7]
• Baldev Raj Verma ^[8]
• Aloke Chattopadhyay
• Mahendra Toke
• Ramneek Singh^[9]