Jnan Prakash Ghosh Explained

Jnan Prakash Ghosh
Birth Name:Jnan Prakash Ghosh
Birth Date:8 May 1909
Origin:Kolkata, India
Death Date: (aged 88)
Occupation:Tabla player, musicologist
Instrument:Vocals, Tabla, Harmonium
Genre:Hindustani Classical Music

Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh (8 May 1909 – 18 February 1997) was an Indian harmonium and tabla player from Farukhabad gharana of Hindustani classical music and musicologist.

Early life and background

Born in a Hindu family with musical background in Kolkata, he was the grandson of Dwarkanath Ghosh (1847–1928), who founded Dwarkin in 1875 and invented the "Dwarkin harmonium", popular in West Bengal, India.[1] He graduated from the Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta[2] He was keen in sports (he played soccer, hockey, polo and billiards). He also practised painting, but had to discontinue these due to an eye injury in a soccer match.

Then he turned to music. He was trained in vocals by Girija Shankar, Mohammed Sagir Khan and Mohammed Dabir Khan. He took tabla lessons from Masit Khan of the Farukhabad gharana and became his senior disciple. After realizing that is so much more tabla, he started his tutelage under Ustad Feroz Khan of Punjab Gharana. It is here where the Punjabi Gharana compositions were introduced to Kolkata folks. [3]

Career

He was the founder of Sourav Academy of Music and closely associated with the 'Sangeet Research Academy'. He scored music for many Bengali films, of which Jadubhatta, Andhare Alo and Rajlakshmi o Srikanta (1958) are worth mentioning. He has composed and directed music to a number of popular gramophone records sung by various artistes.[4] A percussion entitled The Drums of India[5] [6]

He also provided music for the Academy Award nominated animated short Bead Game, directed by Ishu Patel for the National Film Board of Canada.[7] His residence at 25 Dixon Lane in Bowbazar, Kolkata, was frequented by musicians, be it local or those visiting the city, and thus was the venue of several recitals, most notably a Raga Chhayanat performed by Bade Ghulam Ali Khan in 1954.[8]

Amongst his students are tabla players Kanai Dutta, Shyamal Bose, Shankar Ghosh,[9] Anindo Chatterjee, and Nikhil Ghosh,[10] Rajkumar Misra,[11] singers Prasun Banerjee, Ajoy Chakrabarty, Suman Ghosh and Arun Bhaduri,[12] and instrumentalist Paul Grant.[13] His birth centenary was celebrated on 7 May 2012, in Kolkata, with screening of documentary of him and performances by various singers.[14]

Discography

Awards and recognition

In 1974, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.[15] This was followed by the Padma Bhushan in 1984, given by the Government of India[16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh. 10 July 2013. Angelfire.
  2. Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008, page 589
  3. Book: Kumāraprasāda Mukhopādhyāẏa. The Lost World of Hindustani Music. 10 July 2013. 1 January 2006. Penguin Books India. 978-0-14-306199-1. 9.
  4. http://www.saregama.com/Music/SongDetails.aspx?ISRC=INH100623694&FP=S&FPR=q=jnan/ct=Song/Col=Singer&MId=6&Index=1&CId=PSLP%205770 Saregama : Music
  5. News: Saregama Music .
  6. News: Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Drums of India Vol 2 . . 17 July 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080510220616/http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=62323 . 10 May 2008 .
  7. Web site: Bead Game. Collection page. National Film Board of Canada. 19 January 2011.
  8. Web site: Arunabha Deb . Striking familiar notes . Tehelka . 9 July 2011 . 10 July 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131220070519/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws090711Striking.asp . 20 December 2013 . dead .
  9. News: The 'uncrowned king' deserved better. Banerjee. Meena. 2016-01-28. The Hindu. 2017-10-20. en-IN. 0971-751X.
  10. Web site: Founder . Sangit Mahabharati . 2016 . May 18, 2016.
  11. Web site: Pandit Raj Kumar Mishra. Shivendra. 19 September 2016. 1 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180901165020/http://musicalheritage.in/2016/09/14/pandit-raj-kumar-mishra/. dead.
  12. Web site: Memory in melody . The Hindu . 16 December 2010 . 10 July 2013 .
  13. Web site: Classical music export . https://web.archive.org/web/20120418104420/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-21/art-culture/28360012_1_classical-music-santoor-classical-instruments . dead . 18 April 2012 . 21 January 2011 . . 10 July 2013 .
  14. Web site: Kolkata to remember Guru Jnan Prakash Ghosh . https://web.archive.org/web/20131220084139/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-07/music-events/31609428_1_classical-music-kolkata-pt-ajoy-chakraborty . dead . 20 December 2013 . 7 May 2012 . . 10 July 2013 .
  15. Web site: SNA: List of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskarwinners (Akademi Fellows) . Official website . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023617/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/fellowslist.htm . 4 March 2016 .
  16. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) . 8 March 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095838/http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php?start=20&award_year=1984&state=&field=&p_name=&award=All . 17 February 2012 .

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