It is with great sadness we announce you the passing of one of the greatest musicians ever, the Bengali Indian sarod master, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, aged 87. He was one of the last remnants of an age of true musicianship, virtue and wisdom.

“I started to learn this music at the same time I began to talk,” Khan told music writer Don Heckman in The Times some years ago. “So it is as natural to me as speaking. It’s not something I have to think about any more than I have to think about the words I’m saying.”

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