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Badal Roy, R.I.P.

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Posted on January 21, 2022 at 20:59:51
belyin
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Just heard that Badal Roy died this week. I got to hear him a few times: with Ornette Coleman's Prime Time in the late 80's, with a Indian/Jazz fusion band he played with occasionally here in New Orleans, and just a few years ago at the Prime Time reunion concert at Lincoln Center. From a chance encounter with John McLaughlin in the Indian restaurant where he worked as a busboy and occasional tabla player to the world's stages with two of the most adventurous musicians in jazz--his is quite a story of a man who forged his own way in this world:

 

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RE: Badal Roy, R.I.P., posted on February 1, 2022 at 04:33:15
fantja
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R.I.P.

 

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