Excellent rendering of all the krithis. Best wishes to the lovely Venu-Violin couple. God bless them both always in all ways. Great to see Sri Umayalpuram's special in this young upcoming Mridangam artist. Wish him memorable happy moments in his musical career.
I have been fortunate to attend many performances of Mali between 1948 and 1952, and a few later, and became addicted to his music. I had been hungering to listen to such a music for decades, and now I have just heard one such from Jayant. What a performance!. The nada of the flute,and absolute command over the instrument can be compared to only Mali. The thodi alapana by Jayant was just mesmerising. May God bless him with many more years of service to music.
Bravo...... What an enlightening concert ... carrying d torch of Genius Mali sir......many flashes ..many brikaas..many melodious lingering on a Note ...mathematics galore ......wah...truly a Mali sir's legacy......in front of us... ....accompanists have blended with d Flute..... God bless
In a predominantly Flute Mali channel, it would be amiss to not consider how Mali’s legacies are being passed on to the current generation. Flute JA Jayant is now the most sought-after carnatic flautist and is certainly a worthy candidate for taking over Mali’s mantle. For this purpose, I am uploading a recent house concert of his. A unique feature of this concert was the decision was made to make the concert completely mic-less. No electronic manipulation here and you can hear the natural tones of all the instruments.
In his formative years commencing from the time he was a toddler, Flute Jayant had been feeding on a musical diet of Mali recordings, not through parental compulsion but through his own magnetic properties. His grandfather, the late Vidwan TS Sankaran, perhaps Mali’s closest disciple, recognized the obvious talent early and started being Jayant’s mentor and coach. Like Mali, Jayant had his first public performance at age 7. Is Jayant the anointed flutist to carry forward Flute Mali’s legacies? Let us be clear. Only certain things are legacy-fiable. Such characteristics such as innate musical ability, creativity and personality traits such as level of emotiions (which invariable have an impact on the music displayed) are NOT legacy-fiable. The areas that ARE legacy-fiable are approaches taken and certain technicalities. Jayant is certainly following Flute Mali’s footsteps in the following ways: 1. Absolute insistence on being sruthi-suddham (something even many senior flautists find difficult). 2. Importance given to developing a unique and deep tone. Jayanth uses flutes that are heavier with thicker walls than most and has strived very hard to develop a deep tone that is now his own. 3. A penchant and aptitude for creating intricate rythmic patterns. 4. Abundant use of cross-fingering techniques. 5. Inserting, now and then, some wonderful surprise phrases that fits perfectly with the overall theme. This shows a Mali-like passion for creating new things. 6. A passion that drives an immense amount of hard work and practice. Even someone absurdly gifted such as Mali had to do the hard yards. As an illustration, 10 years ago Jayant was scheduled to perform at an auditorium. The night before, I had played for him an old Mali recording. It was a kAmbOdhi rAgam that only lasted a little over three minutes as it was contained in one side of an old 78rpm record. You can find that kAmbOdhii here: th-cam.com/video/iOl4eZxxpNM/w-d-xo.html. Jayant was compleley awe-struck by the depth of that kAmbOdhi- he had not heard this recording before. He immediately dowloaded a copy onto his smart phone and spent most of the sleeping hours repeatedly listening to it. You can guess what rAgam was the main piece during the performance the next day. To add to these, Jayant has also skillfully adopted the requirements of modern day audience and pays importance to maintaining a good rapport with the audience. I have to conclude that Jayant seems destined to be the one to carry Mali’s baton forward.
Here is a link that shows why Jayant's grandfather and mentor, Sri Sankaran Sir, is considered to be Mali's closest sishya: th-cam.com/video/_GHhcLpzAsM/w-d-xo.html
what a beautiul begada. (Mali's contemplative rendering is sublime... and I am yet to hear another musician attempting it. he seems to have get a small piece of that aspect) who are the accompanists?
Only that darn electronic Tambora is so loud you won't find that in Molly's music at all I'm not sure he even used an electronic one but if he did it wasn't loud
Excellent rendering of all the krithis. Best wishes to the lovely Venu-Violin couple. God bless them both always in all ways. Great to see Sri Umayalpuram's special in this young upcoming Mridangam artist. Wish him memorable happy moments in his musical career.
hearing this again. beautiful shankari neeve ! Its not an easy one. Subbarama deekshithar's masterpiece.
I have been fortunate to attend many performances of Mali between 1948 and 1952, and a few later, and became addicted to his music. I had been hungering to listen to such a music for decades, and now I have just heard one such from Jayant. What a performance!. The nada of the flute,and absolute command over the instrument can be compared to only Mali. The thodi alapana by Jayant was just mesmerising. May God bless him with many more years of service to music.
If possible and available can you please upload the Flute concerts of Vidwan Sri Balasayee too? Thanks.
Bravo......
What an enlightening concert ... carrying d torch of Genius Mali sir......many flashes ..many brikaas..many melodious lingering on a Note ...mathematics galore ......wah...truly a Mali sir's legacy......in front of us...
....accompanists have blended with d Flute.....
God bless
Superb concert by Jayanth. I am watching all posts in this channel regularly.
in this day and age of electronically enhanced music, it was nice to hear the "true" sounds of the instruments
Excellent concert thodi and kambhodhi. My special congratulations to priyamvada. Totally a brilliant concert. Excellent jayanth🎉
Dear Sir, thanks for your wonderful initiatives. Request to upload recordings of BN Suresh.
Superb! Jayanth...it was a bliss listening to.your concert...I loved the first one...the most.... good wishes to you,jayanth..😂
In a predominantly Flute Mali channel, it would be amiss to not consider how Mali’s legacies are being passed on to the current generation. Flute JA Jayant is now the most sought-after carnatic flautist and is certainly a worthy candidate for taking over Mali’s mantle. For this purpose, I am uploading a recent house concert of his. A unique feature of this concert was the decision was made to make the concert completely mic-less. No electronic manipulation here and you can hear the natural tones of all the instruments.
In his formative years commencing from the time he was a toddler, Flute Jayant had been feeding on a musical diet of Mali recordings, not through parental compulsion but through his own magnetic properties. His grandfather, the late Vidwan TS Sankaran, perhaps Mali’s closest disciple, recognized the obvious talent early and started being Jayant’s mentor and coach. Like Mali, Jayant had his first public performance at age 7.
Is Jayant the anointed flutist to carry forward Flute Mali’s legacies? Let us be clear. Only certain things are legacy-fiable. Such characteristics such as innate musical ability, creativity and personality traits such as level of emotiions (which invariable have an impact on the music displayed) are NOT legacy-fiable. The areas that ARE legacy-fiable are approaches taken and certain technicalities.
Jayant is certainly following Flute Mali’s footsteps in the following ways:
1. Absolute insistence on being sruthi-suddham (something even many senior flautists find difficult).
2. Importance given to developing a unique and deep tone. Jayanth uses flutes that are heavier with thicker walls than most and has strived very hard to develop a deep tone that is now his own.
3. A penchant and aptitude for creating intricate rythmic patterns.
4. Abundant use of cross-fingering techniques.
5. Inserting, now and then, some wonderful surprise phrases that fits perfectly with the overall theme. This shows a Mali-like passion for creating new things.
6. A passion that drives an immense amount of hard work and practice. Even someone absurdly gifted such as Mali had to do the hard yards. As an illustration, 10 years ago Jayant was scheduled to perform at an auditorium. The night before, I had played for him an old Mali recording. It was a kAmbOdhi rAgam that only lasted a little over three minutes as it was contained in one side of an old 78rpm record. You can find that kAmbOdhii here: th-cam.com/video/iOl4eZxxpNM/w-d-xo.html. Jayant was compleley awe-struck by the depth of that kAmbOdhi- he had not heard this recording before. He immediately dowloaded a copy onto his smart phone and spent most of the sleeping hours repeatedly listening to it. You can guess what rAgam was the main piece during the performance the next day.
To add to these, Jayant has also skillfully adopted the requirements of modern day audience and pays importance to maintaining a good rapport with the audience.
I have to conclude that Jayant seems destined to be the one to carry Mali’s baton forward.
Concert time stamps:
0.00 kamalamanOhari varNam
7:30 bEgaDA rAgam + sankari neevE
22:25 ambavANi, keeravANi
37:35 thODi rAgam + kArtikEya gAngEya
1:10:00 bindhumAlini rAgam + entamuddo
1:19:23 kAmbOdhi rAgam + OrangashAyi
1:59:40 thani
2:07:47 chinnan jirikkiLiyE, rAgamAlikA
2:14:40 kAvaDichindhu
2:18:07 bArO krishnayyA, rAgamAlikA
2:22:59 beHag rAgam +
2:29:17 gOvardhana giri, darbAri kAnaDa
2:36:15 sindhu bhairavi thillana
2:43:43 mangaLam
I agree! He is Mali’s successor
Here is a link that shows why Jayant's grandfather and mentor, Sri Sankaran Sir, is considered to be Mali's closest sishya:
th-cam.com/video/_GHhcLpzAsM/w-d-xo.html
@@bestofcarnaticflute2736 Hi Sir, the behag krithi is Narayanathe Namo Namo
@@RishiManoharan Thanks
Amazing sir 🙏🙏🙏
Soulful music.Fills ones heart and soul with bliss!
🙏❤️
what a beautiul begada. (Mali's contemplative rendering is sublime... and I am yet to hear another musician attempting it. he seems to have get a small piece of that aspect)
who are the accompanists?
The accompanists are listed at the beginning of the video.
@@bestofcarnaticflute2736 Glad that Jayanth's wife is accompanying so nicely in violin.
The back ground should be white so that the artists face is shown clearly and we can enjoy the concert still better
Only that darn electronic Tambora is so loud you won't find that in Molly's music at all I'm not sure he even used an electronic one but if he did it wasn't loud
Electronic tamburas came into being only after Mali's time. Mali almost always had his favorite tambura player plucking away very close to him.