Take five… and a lot more The Hindu, December 18, 2012 City musicians tell NEHA MUJUMDAR what Dave Brubeck meant to them BRUBECK’S MUSICComes from a school of improvisation that is clear, melodic and appealingPhoto: AFP It’s one of the enduring curiosities of popular memory that the tune most often associated with Dave Brubeck — […]
Monday, November 26, 2012 From Afternoon Despatch & Courier Men On My Mind by Radha Thomas is a funny and raunchy book about living life the way you desire, and (that also means) pursuing what, or rather who you desire. We don’t get too many books where women authors guiltlessly write about playing the field […]
It is with sadness that i learned that Ravi Shankar, the great, trail-blazing maestro passed away. He created forms tof music that didn’t exist and put Indian music on the map for the rest of the world, paving the path for so many of us to walk across. I had a brief encounter with him […]
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TimeOut Mumbai / Bangalore, CD Of The Fortnight, 07 Dec 2012 I Only Have Eyes for You, UNK: The Radha Thomas, Ensemble R120 on Flyte UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble’s new album I Only Have Eyes for You is different, one realizes, from the very first notes. It was not the standard Indian ragas played […]
I travel a lot. And these days it seems I spend more time in the air than on the ground. I don’t like it a bit, but my boss and SO (Significant Other) claims it’s all for a good cause. Eventually, he swears, I’ll be liberated from the shackles of work and can expect to […]
Bangalore Mirror, 11 Dec 2012 Well, my neighbourhood has, I’m pleased to report. It all started about four years ago. Back then, the people in my family, the ones in my building, those who strode energetically around Milton Street Park, jaywalkers on the street, everyone around Cooke Town were extremely grumpy, grouchy, sullen. No one […]
22 September, 2012, http://www.epaperoheraldo.in The Radha Thomas ensemble brings jazz bebop Indian flavoured music to Goa from Bangalore By Sandhya Mendonca Doing different things and doing them well is Radha Thomas’s signature tune. I have known this spunky woman for over 15 years and always marvelled at how she can make music, write and develop […]
21 September, 2012, LiveMint.com Pavitra Jayaraman The Ensemble in concert. We haven’t decided what genre we belong to, why don’t you suggest a name,” laughs Radha Thomas as she takes a break from a day-long rehearsal with her band, UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble. The Bangalore band, which is touring different cities right now, gets […]
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