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Jazz And the City: Latin Percussion through Indian Cinema

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Details

Oct 23 2026 to Oct 23 2026 6:30 p.m.

Price: INR 200 as an entry fee Book/Buy

Where

BLR Design Centre

6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001

Event Description

In this exciting musical workshop, the group explores how in the early 40s and more so in the 1950s Latin percussion entered Indian Cinema and the sound of film music changed, it’s compositions and songs and background score heavily influenced by Latin Percussion and its infectious rhythms. Music directors such as Naushad, RD Burman, O.P. Nayyar, M.S. Vishwanathan, Ilayaraja, Rajan Nagendra, Hamsalekha used it extensively to match the mood, setting, atmosphere, tension, song, etc., in hundreds of films. MoonArra world fusion ensemble is an amalgam of Indian Classical, jazz and world music influences based in Bangalore, India.


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