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	Ali Akbar Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ali Akbar Khan (born April 14, 1922) is one of today's most accomplished Indian classical musicians and known for his mastery of the sarod, a beautiful, 25-stringed Indian instrument.
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's family traces its gharana (ancestral tradition) to Mian Tansen, a 16th century musical genius and court musician of Emperor Akbar.
		Ali Akbar Khan's father, the late Padma Vibhushan Acharya Allauddin Khan, was acknowledged as one of the greatest Hindustani musicians of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan (228 words)

	KHAN, Ali Akbar : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From '38 Ravi Shankar studied under Allauddin Khan in Maihar, and married Annapurna '41, whose reputation on the surbahar (a deeper-voiced, heftier relative of the sitar) is unrivalled (but she has rarely played in public since the '40s- -early '50s when she played jugalbandis or duets in Bombay and Delhi with her then-husband).
		Khan contributed to the soundtrack of Satyajit Ray's film Devi '60, one of the first non-Western directors to breach the international film barrier; during that decade Khan was second only to Shankar in Indian fame on the international circuit.
		He founded the Ali Akbar Khan college of education in Calcutta; it flourished and by '65 he was teaching in the USA; he founded the Ali Akbar College of Music (AACM) '67, opening in Berkeley '68 before moving to Marin County '69, and opened a Swiss branch in Basle '85.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/k/K42.HTM (773 words)

	Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		lt was Ali Akbar who, with the enthusiastic support and cooperation of the great violin player Yehudi Menuhin, cut for the first time in the late 1950s a long-playing disc of Hindustani music in New York and acquainted the Western musical world with the bewitching magic and artistry of our raga-music.
		Khan Saheb was intrigued by the novel idea of the experiment.
		Ali Akbar, although at the pinnacle of success, is a very simple and modest person.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~achatt1/Bio/ali_akbar.html (1681 words)

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		Ali Akbar Khan is one of today's most accomplished classical musicians in Indian sub-continent and considered a "National Living Treasure".
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was born in 1922 in Bangladesh.
		In June of 1991, Ali Akbar Khan became the first Indian musician to be awarded the most prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the genius grant, in recognition of his excellent work in the field of creating, cultivating, and transmitting the highly complex musical tradition of Northern India.
	www.bongoz.com /people/aliakbar.html (714 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ali Akbar Khan (born April 14, 1922) is one of today's most accomplished (Click link for more info and facts about Indian classical music) Indian classical musicians.
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's family traces its (Click link for more info and facts about gharana) gharana (ancestral tradition) to Mian Tansen, a 16th century musical genius and court musician of Emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Akbar) Akbar.
		Ali Akbar Khan's father, the late (Click link for more info and facts about Padma Vibhushan) Padma Vibhushan Acharya Dr. Allauddin Khan, was acknowledged as the greatest figure in North Indian music in this century.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/ali_akbar_khan.htm (231 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan Artist Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Considered a "National Living Treasure" in India, Sarod Maestro Ali Akbar Khan is admired by both Eastern and Western musicians for his brilliant compositions and his mastery of the sarod.
		Concert violinist, the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin, called Ali Akbar Khan, "An absolute genius...the greatest musician in the world," and many have considered him the "Indian Johann Sebastian Bach." Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's family traces its gharana (ancestral tradition) to Mian Tansen, a 16th century musical genius and court musician of Emperor Akbar.
		Ali Akbar Khan's father, the late Padma Vibhusan Acharya Dr. Allauddin Khan, was acknowledged as the greatest figure in North Indian music in this century.
	www.icmschicago.org /Artists/ali_akbar.html (437 words)

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		In September, Ali Akbar Khan was chosen to receive the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
		Ali Akbar Khan and his family, and in particular his father Sri Baba Allauddin Khansahib, have created vast written, recorded, and oral records of music in their tradition known as the Sri Baba Allauddin Seni Gharana of Rampur and Maihar, India.
		On June 14th 1994, The Ali Akbar Khan Foundation was created in order to fund the Baba Allauddin Institute, a library and archive to preserve and make available these materials to future generations.
	www.ammp.com /bio.html (1531 words)

	AsianWeek.com: A&E: Ali Akbar Khan Celebrates a Lifetime of Musical Genius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khan’s family traces its musical and ancestral roots to Mian Tansen, a 16th century court musician of the Mogul Emperor Akbar.
		Khan, who was born in 1922 in what is now Bangladesh, began his musical studies at the age of 3, learning a variety of string and percussion instruments.
		When his father learned that the young Khan was not practicing as much as he should be, he cancelled his tour early and came back to India to make sure his son was playing the 15 to 18 hours a day he was supposed to.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_11_01/arts_khan.html (1298 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ali Akbar Khan
		Ali Akbar Khan's father, the late Padma Vibhushan Acharya Allauddin Khan, was acknowledged as one of the greatest musicians in North Indian music in the 20th century.
		Allauddin Khan (1862-1972) was a Indian classical musician and one of the greatest music teachers of the twentieth century.
		He has run the Ali Akbar College of Music for many years in San Rafael, California San Rafael (pronounced san ruh-FELL) is the County seat of Marin County, California, United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ali-Akbar-Khan (442 words)

	Seasons India :: Musician Ustad Akbar Ali Khan
		Considered a "National Living Treasure" in India, Ali Akbar Khan is admired by both Eastern and Western musicians for his brilliant compositions and his mastery of the sarod (a beautiful, 25-stringed Indian instrument).
		At the request of Yehudi Menuhin, Ali Akbar Khan first visited the United States in 1955 and performed an unprecedented concert at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
		In 1968, he founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in Marin County (California), where he continues to teach 6 classes a week for 9 months of the year.
	www.seasonsindia.com /art_culture/music_ali_sea.htm (773 words)

	Professional Artists
		Taught by his father Haafiz Ali Khan, a musician to the royal family of Gwalior, Amjad Ali Khan was born to the illustrious Bangash lineage rooted in the Senia Bangash School of music.
		Ustad Wahid Khan was the uncle of Ustad Vilayat Khan.
		A distinguished disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, he was first trained as a child in Hindustani vocal music by his father and other eminent musicians and was a concert and radio artist before he was twenty.
	www.chakardar.com /professional_indian_artists.htm (4214 words)

	Khan, Ali Akbar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A master of the sarod, a 25-stringed N Indian instrument, Khan was born into a family whose roots in traditional Indian court music extend back to the 16th cent.
		Trained by his father, Alauddin Khan, a famous musician and teacher, the younger Khan began performing at 13, was appointed court musician to the Maharaja of Jodhpur, and became a well-known virtuoso.
		Khan has since produced nearly 100 albums and performed frequently, sometimes with his brother-in-law, sitarist Ravi Shankar.
	www.bartleby.com /65/kh/KhanAliA.html (231 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan/Sarode/India Music/Jan Haag
		Ali Akbar Khan, heir to the Seni Baba Allauddin Gharana and destined to become one of the greatest musical geniuses the world has ever known, was born in Shivpur, Bangladesh in 1922.
		Ali Akbar Khan grew up in Maihar, in Madhya Pradesh, where his father, the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan (in his youth known as Alam) was court musician to the Maharaja.
		In the mid '40s, these two young musicians, Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar, who were destined to become the most notable international North Indian Classical musicians of the age, began to perform in Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta, in concerts and at conferences and festivals throughout India.
	janhaag.com /MUaakaa.html (3163 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		The son of influential Hindustani musician Allaudin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan is one of the Eastern world's greatest musicians.
		A five-time Grammy nominee, Khan was called, by Yehudi Menuhin, "an absolute genius, the greatest musician in the world." Tracing his ancestral roots to Mian Tansen, a 16th century musician in the court of Emperor Akbar, Khan began studying music at the age of three.
		Khan received numerous awards including the President of India Award in 1963, the Padma Vibhusan in 1988, the Bill Graham Lifetime Achievement award in 1993, and the Asian Paints Shiromani Hall of Fame Award in 1997.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10562/10562823.html (507 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Khan was trained by his father, the master Alauddin Khan, began performing at age 13, and soon became the court musician to the maharaja…
		The Mughals were a Muslim power governing a basically Hindu country, but the greatest of their emperors, Akbar, managed to enlist the cooperation of Hindu leaders in conquering and governing virtually the whole of the Indian subcontinent.
		Biographical sketch of sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045264?tocId=9045264 (800 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan, sarod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ali Akbar Khan, the great sarod player who comes to Ann Arbor tonight with another towering master of Indian music, the tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, is explaining the mystique of an art form that inspires young musicians to practice 18 hours a day and to study for 30 years or more.
		Within a few years, Khan’s father had determined the boy should concentrate on vocal performance and on playing the sarod, an instrument that somewhat resembles a guitar without frets.
		Since 1955, when Khan first came to this country at the urging of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he has mentored some 15,000 American students in the traditions of raga.
	www.detnews.com /2000/entertainment/0317/khan/khan.htm (450 words)

	Browse by Artist: KHAN, ALI AKBAR
		One of the first Indian musicians to introduce Hindustani classical music to the west, Ali Akbar Khan is the undisputed master of the sarode, a 25-string fretless string instrument with a sweet, guitar-like sound and overtones of banjo and oud.
		Ali Akbar Khan was taught by his father, Baba Allauddin Khan, who told him to spread the music as far as the sun and the moon.
		"Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is acknowledged throughout India as one of its foremost classical musicians and the maestro of his chosen instrument, the sarod.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/khan.ali.akbar.html (487 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: Ali Akbar Khan
		Born in Bangladesh in 1922, Khan began his musical studies at the age of 3.
		Later, concentrating on vocals and the sarode (a lutelike instrument made of 25 metal strings), Khan became the court musician to the Maharaja of Jodhpur and made the first Western LP recording of Indian classical music.
		Khan continues to perform all over the world and has earned some of music's highest honors, including the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/aliakbarkh.jsp (305 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in 1922 in East Bengal (Bangladesh), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was trained in music by his father, the late Ustad Baba Allauddin Khansahib, who is acknowledged as the greatest musician of North India in this century.
		In time, Ali Akbar Khan began to synthesize the tonal and stylistic qualities of these instruments into his instrument of choice: the sarode.
		Ali Akbar Khansahib first founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta, India, in 1956.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Ali_Akbar_Khan.html (386 words)

	Iranian Music: Ali Akbar Shahnazi
		His father, Mirza Hossein Gholi, the great master of tar named him Ali Akbar according to a very old tradition: the grandson should be named as his grandfather.
		His grandfather the Ali Akbar Khan of the Farahan village of the Arak city was a great master of tar.
		Ali Akbar Khan's nephew the Gholam Hossein Khan was another great tar player.
	www.iranchamber.com /music/ashahnazi/aliakbar_shahnazi.php (323 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan
		Ali Akbar was born into a family steeped in the traditions of Indian court music.
		Ali Akbar himself became court musician to the Maharaja of Jodhpur until the maharaja's death.
		Khan founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta, India, with branches in California and Switzerland.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0880665.html (352 words)

	Biography of ali Akbar Khan, master of the sarod (sarode)
		by David Courtney, Ph.D. Ali Akbar Khan is a name that is virtually synonymous with the sarod.
		Ali Akbar made his first trip to the United States in 1955.
		Ali Akbar's long career has been rich indeed.
	chandrakantha.com /biodata/ali_akbar_khan.html (371 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan (AMMP) - Sarod maestro
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan accompanied by Pandit Mahapurush Mishra on tabla.
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's second in the series with three ragas.
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Nikhil Banerjee accompanied by Pandit Mahapurush...
	www.sonarupa.co.uk /itmidx8.htm (168 words)

	Sound Photosynthesis: ALI AKBAR KHAN: videotapes audiotapes publications and more
		Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, today's most accomplished North Indian classical musician, considered a "National Living Treasure" in India, is admired by both Eastern and Western musicians for his brilliant composition and musical mastery.
		Founder and director of the Ali Akbar College of Music he has devoted his life to bringing this most refined form of musical expression to the West through performance, teaching and cultural fusion.
		Ali Akbar Khan plays Ragas: Bihag, Hem Bihag with Swapan Chaudhuri on tabla.
	www.photosynthesis.com /ALI_A.html (451 words)

	freedb.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Dil Marjane Nu
		Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan / Ishq Ka Afsaana
		Ustad Latif Ahmed Khan / Hommage a Latif Ahmed Khan
	www.freedb.org /freedb_search.php?words=KHAN&allfields=NO&fields=artist&allcats=YES&grouping=none (3633 words)

	Ali Akbar College of Music - Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ali Akbar Khan and Swapan Chaudhuri regularly attract more than eighty students from up to ten countries.
		Television - The Ali Akbar College was recently the subject of a 1-hour documentary film produced by the Swiss-Italian Televison Network, entitled Il Filo d'Oro: Ali Akbar Khan - La Strada Del Suono, directed by Werner Weick.
		The film, which received high praise from critics, gives a close-up portrait of Ali Akbar Khan, from his early childhood under the tutelage of his father, to his recent years of work in Basel, as a teacher and in performance.
	www.kenzuckerman.com /AACM.HTM (412 words)

	Ali Akbar Khan - Rhythm n Raga.org
		was born in 1922, in East Bengal (Bangladesh), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan began his studies in music at the age of three.
		Ali Akbar Khan's music is rooted in the Hindustani (northern) tradition of Indian music.
		As a composer Ustad Ali Akbar Khan is known for his film scores and as the creator of many raga.
	www.rhythmnraga.org /aliakbar.html (218 words)

	ALI AKBAR KHAN: A Musical Giant
		Ali Akbar Khan began his musical studies at the age of 3, taking lessons from his father, the late Padma Vibusan Acharya Dr. Allauddin Khan, who is acknowledged as the greatest figure in North Indian music in the 20th century.
		Ali Akbar Khan was trained in a number of instruments by his father and his uncle, Fakir Aftabuddin.
		Ali Akbar Khan has been playing his message of tranquility and elevation for decades.
	www.ranchovilasa-spurs.com /aliakbarkhan.html (2325 words)

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