Ali Akbar Khan + John Handy + Zakir Hussain live at the 1972 Berlin Jazz Festival (1972-11-03)

Here is an over-the-air FM recording of a performance by Ali Akbar Khan and tabla maestro Zakir Hussain together with alto sax player John Handy. These three, together with a few guest musicians such as guitarist Bola Sete released two LPs in the 1970s on the MPS label.

Some people will enjoy this sort of material and some won't. Likely you know which camp you are in. For what it is worth, the FM capture is pretty good for being 43 years ago.

This was downloaded from a fairly well known torrent site devoted to live music of all sorts. If one were to Google the word "Dimeadozen," I am sure that one would run into their site pretty quickly.

The original text file (with some editing by me) is as follows:

John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan

November 3, 1972

West Berlin, Germany

Track List (1:02:22):

1. Unknown - 23:34

2. Unknown - 11:58

3. Unknown - 16:11

4. Unknown - 10:37

Musicians:

John Handy - alto saxophone

Ali Akbar Khan - sarod

Zakir Hussain - tabla

Source:

pre-FM

Lineage:

pre-FM reel >? >DAT >HDD via coax to Midiman Audiophile 2496 @48 kHz >CoolEdit Pro 2.0 >CD Wave >Trader's Little Helper >FLAC (level 6, ASB)

I feel that I should point out that the text file claims this to be a "pre-FM" -- that is, a direct dub of the tape that was recorded at the concert and then played on the air. It sounds more like a regular FM capture to me, although it may simply be that there are a number of analog generations (cassette copies of cassettes being traded among collectors) as represented by the "?" in the lineage. There was some static which was carefully removed in Audacity and overall I am fairly happy with the resulting sound.

A youtube video featuring the complete John Handy album featuring Ali Akbar Khan and entitled "Karuna Supreme." 

And this also.

Karuna is usually translated as "compassion" and I think that is close enough to what it means that I don't feel like splitting hairs about it.

16 bit, 44.1 kHz FLAC file (389 MB)

320 kbps mp3 file (142 MB)