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About This Album
Excellence on the Sitar is a classic sitar and tabla album by Ustad Shujaat Khan with Enayet Hossain, centred on a full-length performance of Raga Jhinjhoti.
Jhinjhoti is a lyrical night raga, and Shujaat Khan gives it the space of a complete concert. A 28-minute alap, jor and jhala unfolds the raga slowly before gathering pace, and the tabla then joins for gats in vilambit (slow) and drut (fast) teental. The album closes with a Bhatiyali dhun, a melody drawn from the boatmen’s songs of Bengal.
Shujaat Khan is the son and disciple of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan and plays in the gayaki ang, the singing style of the Imdadkhani gharana, in which the sitar imitates the subtleties of the human voice. Released by Aimrec in 1991 (AIMCDIM300); the same recording is also available on vinyl.
Tracklist
| Number | Track | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raga Jhinjhoti (Alap, Jor, Jhala) | 28:00 |
| 2 | Raga Jhinjhoti (Vilambit Teental, Drut Teental) | 28:15 |
| 3 | Bhatiyali Dhun | 14:04 |
Ragas on this album: Raga Jhinjhoti · Raga Bhatiyali (Raga Guide)
