Louis Banks

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Louis Banks (born February 11, 1941 in Darjeeling , India , as Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi , also Louiz Banks ) is an Indian jazz musician ( piano , vocals ) who has also emerged as a film composer and music producer . Because of its importance, he was also known as the “godfather of Indian jazz”.

Live and act

Banks comes from a musical family: his grandfather Bakhat Bahadur Budapirti was the composer of the hymn śrīmān gambhīra nepālī , which served as the national anthem in Nepal between 1962 and 2006 ; his father moved in the early 1940s to Calcutta to there as a trumpet player by the name of George Banks to play in a European dance orchestra. The son, who was now called to Louis Armstrong Louis by his father, received music lessons early on from his father and a neighbor. After finishing school he attended St. Joseph's College in Darjeeling, where he learned the piano , guitar and trumpet.

At the age of 13 he played in his father's band; soon he became a professional musician. In the late 1960s he played with regional orchestras in Kathmandu . In 1971 he moved to Calcutta, where he formed the Louis Banks Brotherhood with saxophonist Braz Gonsalves and singer Pam Crain . In 1974 he became a member of the orchestra of Rahul Dev Burman ; he moved to Bombay , where he established live jazz in nightclubs. With Braz Gonsalvez he founded his indo-jazz ensemble in 1979 . In 1980 he performed at the Jazz Yatra Festival with Ravi Shankar to perform his composition "Jazzmine". With RA Ramamani , TAS Mani and Ramesh Shotham , he formed the band Sangam , which also toured Europe and was used by Charlie Mariano for recordings ( Bangalore . 1998). He also recorded with the dissidents ( Pankuj Parahar , 1992). In 2005 he formed the group Rhythm Asia with Taufiq Qureshi on tabla and Niladri Kumar on sitar . In 2008 he was involved as a pianist and co-producer on the Miles Davis tribute album Miles from India , which was nominated for a Grammy in the same year , as did John McLaughlin's album Floating Point , on which he also played keyboards. With Shankar Mahadevan, Sivamani and Karl Peters he then formed the band Silk , which specialized in world music. With his son, the drummer Gino Banks, he could also be heard in the band Fusion Yatra . In 2013 he founded the band Ganga Shakti , which includes Sharmistha Chatterjee, Finix Ramdas, Mohini Dey and Gino Banks.

As a film composer, he wrote the music for numerous Indian films, for example by Bharat Dabholkar . The music for the short television film Mile Sur Mera Tumhara , created in 1988 , became particularly popular, so that it was also referred to as a kind of unofficial national anthem. The Bundesjazzorchester also performed compositions by him on its 2011 tour of India.

Filmography

  • To August Requiem (1982)
  • New Delhi Times (1986)
  • Kala Dhanda Goray Log (1986)
  • Hum (1991)
  • Lakshmanrekha (1991)
  • Suryavanshi (1992)
  • Aasmaan Se Gira (1992)
  • Divya Shakti (1993)
  • Insaniyat (1994)
  • God and Gun (1995)
  • Barsaat (1995)
  • Duplicate (1998)
  • Bokshu the Myth (2002)
  • God Only Knows! (2004)
  • Straight (2009)
  • Oass (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Godfather of jazz Indian Express September 19, 2009.
  2. ^ The Big Daddy of Jazz The Daily Telegraph
  3. ↑ Ethnic Nepali is "India's Jazz King" ( Memento from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ejazznews.com., December 13, 2005
  4. ^ A b c Jazz in India Jazz planet by E. Taylor Atkins. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. ISBN 1-57806-609-3 . p. 64 .
  5. ^ A b Louis Banks: In tune with life Times of India , May 11, 2003
  6. ^ A b Peter Lavezzoli The dawn of Indian music in the West : Bhairavi London, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. p. 207, p. 311.
  7. ^ Raj Kumar Gupta The great encounter: a study of Indo-American literature and cultural relations . Abhinav Publications, 1986. ISBN 81-7017-211-X . P. 159
  8. ↑ Living and breathing Music The Hindu , March 27, 2003
  9. ^ Dissidents: World Music from Germany
  10. ↑ Chilli harmony ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Hindu, April 13, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hinduonnet.com
  11. ↑ Mile sur: The unofficial Indian anthem  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Financial Express@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.financialexpress.com  
  12. ↑ First India tour of the Federal Jazz Orchestra (Deutscher Musikrat) ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikrat.de
personal data
SURNAME Banks, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budaprithi, Dambar Bahadur; Banks, Louiz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian jazz musician (piano, vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Darjeeling , India ,