RIP: Ravi Shankar

[Louis]

NYT Obit (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/arts/music/ravi-shankar-indian-sitarist-dies-at-92.html?smid=pl-share)

Ravi Shankar on Dick Cavett Show (and some other guy who's just sitting there) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWCiLexilY)

Edit: BTW, the video linked at the NYT site in the area labeled "Multimedia" is really cool.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01618/ravi-harrison_1618702c.jpg

[Pete Mckeon]

Ravi was very much liked in the ole days. May he RIP.

[victoryfactory]

A true giant.
He did more than anyone in bringing Indian culture and
music to the west.

Will be remembered

VF

[Bob Ross]

Bad spate of influential musician deaths recently: Elliott Carter, Dave Brubeck, now Ravi Shankar... I'm gonna be wearing black for two solid months!

When I was 11 years old I attended an elective six week summer school class in Art & Art History or something like that. I just remember that for the final project we had to assume the role of a famous artist and give a presentation to the class in the guise of that person. I chose Ravi Shankar. Even built a non-functioning two-dimensional sitar as a prop. To this day I sometimes employ structural aspects of the Indian raga in my compositions that I learned while researching that project.

RIP Ravi.

[tiretrax]

Yes, RIP. And, let us thank him for Nora Jones.

[bluesea]

2nd from the top.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6804898145_51b54eb1ed_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigmode/6804898145/)
IMG_0025 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigmode/6804898145/) by pigmode (http://www.flickr.com/people/pigmode/), on Flickr

[aoe]

A true giant.
He did more than anyone in bringing Indian culture and
music to the west.

Will be remembered

VF

+1 and created the legacy of bringing musicians together to benefit and bring awareness to international charitable causes. The world lost a true gem. May he rest in peace.

[Fixed]

Namaste
He opened doors so many could follow
God bless

[Steve in SLO]

I was kucky enough to see him with Stanley Clarke in the late 70s. Amazing what he did with the sitar.
RIP

[bluesea]

He also did beautifully all of the early soundtracks for Satyajit Ray.

[slidey]

Wow, this is sad!

[Jeff N.]

Now he and George can jam again like back in the day. Jeff N.

[Bob Ross]

I was kucky enough to see him with Stanley Clarke

Together?!?! Wow...