78 rpm Records of Indian Music: Abdul Aziz Khan

I’m gradually getting more of my collection of Hindustani 78 rpm records digitized and uploaded.

Here are two performances by the vichitra veena player Abdul Aziz Khan, of the ragas Darbari Kanada and Bageshri.

On both recordings the Ustad can be heard giving himself daad when he plays something nice. It’s a fascinating look at the artist’s mind in its relation to the listeners; he needed to have rasikas enjoying his music for it to have any meaning — and since it was just him and the tabla player in the room, he provided his own feedback as needed.

More to come. I have hundreds of these recordings and I plan on getting them all uploaded in the next year or so.