SHAHID KHAN | Raga Malkauns

Ustad Shahid Khan - sarod
Ustad Ilmas Khan - tabla
Raga Malkauns: Alap & Gats in Teental
Ustad Shahid Khan was born in 1938 as the eldest son of Ust. Umar Khan. Besides the training from his father he received further taleem from his uncle sitar player Ust. Ilyas Khan, his grandfather Ust. Sakhawat Hussain Khan and his maternal uncle Ust.Ishtiaque Ahmed Khan. Most of his life he worked as staff artist for Doordarshan/Lucknow. He has retired from musical performances many years ago and lives in Lucknow.
Picture was kindly shared by Murchana Barthakur Adhikary. It is from 1975 and the tabla player in the picture is Pandit Dilip Bhartarkur. Audio recording from the archive of Ust. Irfan Khan.

[@MukulGoel-i2e]

Beautiful rendition

[@r.c.g8272]

Superlative tabla too. Maza aagaya.

[@praja343]

Please keep unearthing and publishing these gems. Thank God Ustadji is still around. Has anybody done any recorded interviews or gone through the archives of AIR Lucknow to unearth and save his recordings? Ustad Gulfam Ahmed Khan also belongs to this gharana? his music based on a couple of short KZbin videos is also substantial.

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

Doing our best. AIR officials prefer to let things rot away in their archives. Ustad Gulfam Ahmed Khan Saheb is of course an integral part of LSG but we do not have anything more than the few clips you mentioned. I hope he or his son would share some more of it. Matyas Wolter

[@vinaypande]

This is wonderful!!! Lets find more recordings please Matyas.. videos ideally - tho what AIR did with them is another matter. Wonderful tabla accompaniment too

[@NoorKhan-786]

So wonderful. Thanks for sharing this beautiful recording of Malkauns. One of my favorite rags!!! 🙏🙏🙏 When was this masterpiece recorded?

[@lucknow-shahjahanpur-ghara7790]

Not sure. Maybe Ustadji knows or could ask his brother.