Monday, January 30, 2012

USA: In the 1960s Trilok Gurtu was refused admission at Berkeley

Gurtu himself recounts the story behind it. "As a young musician, I had applied to the Berkeley College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but was 'refused admission' because they wanted me to play the American way and world music, and the exotic rhythms of India were not yet accepted on the jazz music scene in the United States in the 1960s. So I refused to bend to their wish and was rejected," he says. (Full interview)