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Badal Roy (Bengali: বাদল রায়; born Amarendra Roy Chowdhury) is a Bangladeshi tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music. He was born in Comilla, East Bengal, British India (now in Bangladesh) in 1945.
Badal Roy was born into a Hindu family in a predominantly Muslim eastern Bengal region of the British empire in the Indian Subcontinent (which later became East Pakistan, then Bangladesh). He speaks the Bengali, English, Hindi, and Urdu languages. His father was a government official who served in the distinguished position of Joint Secretary. His nickname, Badal (meaning "rain," "cloud," or "thunder" in the Bengali language), was given to him by his grandfather after he began crying in the rain as a baby.
An early inspiration for Roy was American popular music, and he particularly enjoyed the music of artists such as Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, and Nat King Cole. His first exposure to jazz came when he saw a concert by Duke Ellington and his 60-member orchestra at the Metropole Hotel in Karachi, West Pakistan in 1959; he and his brother were the only Pakistanis in attendance (the rest of the audience was white).
Barney McAll (born Melbourne, Australia, 1966) is a jazz pianist and composer. Barney McAll moved to New York City from Australia in 1997 to join saxophonist Gary Bartz's band. As well as remaining to be a member of the Gary Bartz quartet, he also plays with the Josh Roseman Unit, Fred Wesley and the JB's, Groove Collective, and Kurt Rosenwinkel's "Heartcore". He completed a Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, studying with pianists Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould and Mike Nock and with guitarist Doug Devries.
His ensembles include "M.O.D.A.S", "Sylent Running", "GRAFT" and his most recent ensemble ASIO (Australian Symbiotic Improvisers Orbit). He was awarded the Australia Council Fellowship in 2007 and worked as musical director for Australian vocalist Sia Furler from 2011-2012.
Barney McAll is also the 2015 recipient of the Peggy Glanville-Hicks composer residency in Sydney, Australia.
He has recorded or performed internationally with many other musicians including Dewey Redman, Roy Ayers, Kenny Garrett, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Cobb, Eddie Henderson, Aloe Blacc, Peter Apfelbaum, Billy Harper, Daniel Merriweather and Vernel Fournier. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 McAll won Best Jazz Album for Mooroolbark.
Here is something unique, Indian Tablas player Badal Roy and Puerto-rican Percussionist Frank Colon, Warming up their Instruments before the show at the Jazz Channel on their performance with the pianist composer Michael Wolf and his group Impure Though, back in the year 1999.
Creative Music Studio (CMS) Workshop - Fall 2014 Recorded Oct 1 2014 at Big Indian, New York Steve Gorn - bansuri flutes, shruti box Badal Roy - tabla drums
Tabla master Badal Roy with Dave Liebman - Sax, Kenny Wessel - Guitar, Steve Gorn - Bamboo Flute, Daniel Moreno - Percussion, Michael Henderson - Bass. Live at the Hartford International Jazz Fest, Oct. 10, 2008
Jazz pianist Michael Wolff and Indian tabla player Badal Roy play an improvised composition at a WBGO fundraiser on 6.13.2011 Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/F7sV/
Rodrigo G Pahlen - Badal Roy ¨Improvisation¨ Concert Live 2007 Sala Zitarrosa 2007 Badal Roy- tablas Rodrigo G Pahlen- piano
Badal Roy prepares for his week at Tutuma by giving the audience a preview!
Instrumental duet on the American folk song from Perry Robinson, clarinet and Badal Roy, tabla from the 1978 release Kundalini. -uploaded in HD at http://www.TunesToTube.com
Barney Mcall / Badal Roy / Rufus Cappadocia - Chinese Cello
We are the legions of damned
The legions of faith
Together as one we stand
We are the legions of light
The legions of dark
Together we shall arise
We will cast the spell on you
Charm your soul for good
Join us and share the glory
From every battle we ever fight
Side by side we hold the line
We are the legions of doom
The legions of hope
Together we triumph and mourn
We are the legions of all
The legions of gods
Defy our strength and you shall fall
We hold the bridge over the bourn
Wield the keys and guard the gates
We shall reform the laws
Shape the future and the faith
New creation in our order
We set the dawn and the rise again
Night and day, all the seasons
Changes when ever we say
Crush the betrayals, hunt them down
Together we are strong, enough to drown
All the infidels, in their own blood