Vilayat Khan
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Biography
[Edit]Vilayat Khan, one of the greatest Hindustani musicians of the 20th century, was born in Gouripur in East Bengal (later Bangladesh) in August 1922. (Various other dates are strewn throughout the literature but that is the date that he confirmed in 1993.) His grandfather, Imdad Khan (1848-1920) and his father Enayat Khan (1894-1938) — Vilayat Khan gives the spelling Inayat Khan — were famed musicians in their lifetimes and Vilayat and his younger brother Imrat Khan inherited their musicality. Their gharana is known as the Imdadkhani gharana after their grandfather.
He studied initially with his father. On his father's death in 1938 his training became the responsibility of his mother, Bashiran Begum, his grandmother, Bande Hussain Khan, and his maternal uncle, Wahid Khan. Around the same period Vilayat Khan began recording 78s. Peculiarly it is reported that he had to cope with odious comparisons with his father. Gradually he developed a style which, while acknowledging his kinsfolk's contribution, spoke with his own distinctive voice. His most outstanding contribution to his gharana's tradition is the evolution of what is known as a vocal style or gayaki ang on sitar. To some degree this is a term of convenience. Other contemporary musicians were striving to develop instrumental styles which more closely resembled the human voice — it was after all the goal of all instrumentalists to mimic as far as possible the human voice — and Vilayat Khan did not have a monopoly in this endeavor whatever some commentators claimed. That is not to detract from his achievement which was considerable and caused a sensation.
Vilayat Khan's strides in compensating for the sitar's shortcomings were immense. His career was marked by a regally consistent musical quality. An outspoken critic of low standards, he maintained levels of personal integrity that on occasion earned him the disfavor of the establishment. Little of his work was in any context other than the strictly classical one although he worked with Satyajit Ray on the soundtrack to the film Jalsaghar and the Ismail Merchant/James Ivory film The Guru. He might be summed up as a keeper — not a quencher — of the flame.
Title: Jugalbandi - Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ustad Bismillah Khan
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan
Genre: Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Together - Instrumental: Hindustani Classical, Vol. 2
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Genre:
Title: Raga Marwa (Live At the Barbican Centre, London 1997)
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: Ustad Vilayat Khan - Sitar Wadan (Classic Raaga Collection)
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music, Instrumental
Title: Inayat - Tribute to His Father & Guru Ustad Inayat Khan (Raga Piloo)
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: Ustad Vilayat Khan: Anthology, Vol. 1 (Evolution of a Maestro)
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: Saaz Sitar - Volume 1
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Hussain Khan Ravi Shankar
Genre: World Music
Title: Dawn to Dusk: Aftaab-E-Sitar Vilayat Khan Live
Artist: Zakir Hussain, Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: Kadambari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Single
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Ajit Singh
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: A Rare Genius, Ragas Bilaskhani Todi & Tilak Kamod
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music, India Ethnic
Title: Live in Mumbai (feat. Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain, Hidayat Khan)
Artist: Zakir Hussain, Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: A Tribute to Sitar Wizard - Ustad Vilayat Khan
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Tradition (feat. Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain, Hidayat Khan)
Artist: Zakir Hussain, Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: Anthology - Evolution of a Maestro, Vol. 1
Artist: Vilayat Khan
Genre: World Music, Instrumental
Title: Saaz Sitar, Vol. 2
Artist: Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Husain Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: Live At the Royal Festival Hall, London, November 25, 1993
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Husain Khan
Genre: World Music
Title: When Time Stood Still… / When Time Stood Still...
Artist: Vilayat Khan, Pandit Kishan Maharaj
Genre: World Music
Collections
Title: Rough Guide To Indian Classical Music
Genre: World Music
Title: Passage To India
Genre: Instrumental
Title: The Platinum Edition (Raaga Greats)
Genre:
Title: Dusk to Dawn: Instrumental Classical
Genre: Instrumental
Title: The Raaga Collection - Classical
Genre: World Music
Title: The Best of Hindustani Instrumental, Vol. 1 & 2
Genre:
Title: Festival of India
Genre:
Title: Best of Navras 2006
Genre:
Title: Passage to India - Instrumental: Series II
Genre: World Music
Title: Classical Music of India (Instrumental) - Single
Genre: Instrumental
Title: The Best of Sitar Vol. 2
Genre: World Music
Title: The Best of Sitar Vol. 1
Genre: World Music
Title: Instrumental India
Genre: World Music
Title: Sitarscape
Genre: World Music
Title: Megaphone Classic
Genre:
Featuring albums
Title: The Darjeeling Limited (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Navras - Hindustani Classical Moods
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Introduction To Indian Classical Music, Vol. 1: Best of the Sitar
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music
