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The
Gharana – The Maihar Gharana, to which Jayanta Roy belongs, has
evolved directly from Mian Tansen, the celebrated disciple of the Saint musician
Swami Haridas. Through the guru-shishya parampara the musical tradition of the
gharana has been preserved for over five centuries.
It
was Baba (Acharya Allauddin Khan Saheb as he was populary known “Baba”) who
provided a quantum lap of the music of the gharana. Baba introduced the dhrupad
and to contemporary Indian instruments this improving their technical quality
and emotional appeal.
The
sitar was endowed with amazing versatility and handed to his disciples Pt. Ravi
Shankar and the late Pt. Nikhil Banerjee. The term maihar gharana, thus simply
denotes the creative evolution of the senia style of music in the hand of
“Baba”, the court musician of the Maihar state.
JAYANTA
ROY's Guru – At first his teaching in sitar from Sri Sarat Shilpi,
then his teaching under Prof. Debiprasad Chatterjee, who was disciple of late
Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, after he completed M.A. in
classical instrument music on sitar in Rabindra Bharati University. And there he trained by Smt. Sisirkana
Dhar Choudhuri, Dhynes Khan, Maya Mitra, Santosh Banerjee, Rabin Ghosh,
Manoj Sankar.
At
present Jayanta Roy’s Guru is Pt. Jotin Bhattacharya (Sarod), a doyen of Indian
classical music and one of the pillars of Senia Gharana who is disciple of Baba
Allauddin Khan Saheb, Pt. Jotin Bhattacharya is teaching him in the purest
traditional of Indian classical music. Over the years he proved himself to be a
talented heir to the sublime music of Maihar Gharana that perpetuates the sacred
tradition of Tansen’s Senia Gharana. Jayanta’s sitar playing is characterized
by depth and precise stroke seamless suts and introspective and leisurely
Alaps that plumb the depths of Indian classical Ragas with all their subtleties
and nuances. His demonstration on technique of sitar playing and lecture on
musicology and history of music is very logical, attractive, interesting,
energetic and joyful also.
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