His first 12″ LP arrived in 1955, that same year Yehudi Menuhin, world class classical violinist, invited Khan to play at MOMA in New York. He was a teacher to American guitarist Peter Walker, George Harrison of the Beatles, Phillip Glass and Anoushka Shankar (his Daughter) amongst others.Īli Akbar Khan is known as one of the greatest sarod players in Indian history. In 1956 Ravi Shankar released his American debut album “Three Ragas”. He was instrumental in building the bridge between European and Indian music. He went to school and studied in Paris where he began to play music publicly at the age of 13. His Father and brother both moved to Paris in the 1930’s and Ravi soon followed. He was born in a privileged family and studied music and arts from a young age. Ravi Shankar was born in April 7 th 1920. As one of India’s greatest musicians his story is essential to the American primitive movement and its fusion with raga. Ravi Shankar was responsible for introducing many Americans and Europeans to Indian raga. The most striking feature of this movement was not the integration of folk and blues which lays its foundation but the new integration of classical Indian musical structure known as the raga into the compositions, often called American raga or folk raga. Artists sometimes referred to as the new American Primtivists Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghan, Daniel Bachman, Glenn Jones, Ben Chasney, Sir Richard Bishop, Steve Gunn, Alexander Turnquist, Bill Orcutt, Paul Metzger have all advanced the style in their own unique direction. It has reached into the avant-garde, folk, blues, jazz, ragtime, new age, world and fusion music. Today there are more Guitarists influenced by or playing in the American Primitive style then ever before. The various musicians each made unique contributions to the development of this diverse style, each with their own emphasis on folk, blues, ragtime and raga. This American Primitive style of guitar also involves a number of English guitarists John Renbourne, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and Michael Chapman’s solo guitar pieces are prime examples. The finger picking style evolved to blend the dissonance from blues, the fingering of folk music and a flavoring of Indian classical music.Īmerican Guitarists John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotton, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke, and Peter Walker inspired the newly emerging renaissance of this guitar style. The American Primitive style blends folk and blues into primarily instrumental compositions.
Primitive refers to developing an unconventional style and taking a non-academic path of study with the art form. It was known as “primitive” a term inspired by the French impressionist painters. American primitive is a style of guitar which emerged starting in the 1950’s with Elizabeth Cotton and John Fahey.
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