Word: ragas
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Pianist Dave Brubeck and Saxophonists John Coltrane and Bud Shank. At the end of his U.S. tour, Shankar will begin a six- week course in Indian music at U.C.L.A.; local jazzmen are standing in line to enroll. The basis of Indian music is a melodic form called a raga, a series of notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands of ragas, each conveying a specific mood-joy, eroticism, loneliness, etc. Says Saxophonist Shank: "Everybody says how free our music is, but in comparison with Indian music we are terrifically restricted. It's endless what a musician like...