Re: any written material on Hassell`s harmonic structures/improvisation-approach

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

Per Boysen wrote:

>
> There's some texts at his web site and some articles on the internet,  
> that you should find by Google. As far as I remember no one have  
> asked him those questions though... or maybe he refuses to answer. At  
> least I know he started out studying singing with this Indian male  
> singer I can't remember the name of right now. 


Pandit Pran Nath.

> After a wile Jon  started bringing his trumpet, instead of singing, to 
> the lectures. In  India you learn by playing/singing together with the 
> master by trying  to copy the phrasing. So what he has always been 
> doing is actually to  play trumpet as close as possible to the 
> particular Indian vocal  singing tradition (sorry, don't know much 
> about Indian vocal  tradition either).


Kirana gharana.

http://melafoundation.org/ppn.htm


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