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Birth name
  
Viram Jasani

Name
  
Viram Jasani

Associated acts
  
Gurdev Singh

Years active
  
1963–

Record label
  
Limelight Records


Instruments
  
Tabla, sitar

Genres
  
Indian classical music

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, composer

Role
  
Musician

Albums
  
Rags: Malkauns and Megh

Viram Jasani Viram Jasani and Satish Prakash Qamar YouTube

Labels
  
Limelight Records, Saydisc

Similar People
  
Peter Grant, Chris Dreja, Glyn Johns, Vilayat Khan, Bert Jansch

Boom 1968 segment with viram jasani


Viram Jasani (born 1945) is a Kenyan-born Indian sitar and tabla composer and musician. He is best known for playing tabla drums on the song "Black Mountain Side" from Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut album. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of York in March 2007.

Contents

Viram Jasani and Satish Prakash Qamar


Discography

  • 1972: Ragas: Streams of Light (with Mrinal Sen Gupta, Lateef Ahmed Khan & Surendra Kamat)
  • 1995: Rags, Malkauns and Megh (with Gurdev Singh & Ustad Latif Ahmed Khan)

    • Notable sessions

  • 1968: soundtrack (Boom!) by John Barry
  • 1969: "Black Mountain Side" (Led Zeppelin)
  • 1971: soundtrack (The Trojan Women) by Mikis Theodorakis
  • 1972: Dream Sequence by Cosmic Eye
  • 1973: "Emperor Nero" (The Height Below) by John Williams
  • 2008: Etudes/Radha Krishna by John Mayer [recorded 1971]

    • References

    Viram Jasani Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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