Kolkata, Nov 28, 2016: Jazz legend Carlton Kitto dead. Acclaimed jazz musician Carlton Kitto handed away right here on Monday after a prolonged sickness, skilled associates stated. He was 74.
Jazz legend Carlton Kitto dead.
The guitarist’s passing away was confirmed by Calcutta Faculty of Music’s President Dickoo Nowroji. Kitto used to show jazz on the institution, mentioned Nowroji.
Kitto collaborated with jazz legends like Sonny Rollins, Chico Freeman, Charlie Byrd, and Indian musicians like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Louiz Banks as Jazz legend Carlton Kitto dead.
The Bebop jazz guitarist had additionally performed for Queen Elizabeth.
Born in Bengaluru (then Bangalore) in 1942, Kitto began his profession in Chennai and moved to Kolkata within the 1970s, and have become part of the band, Jazz Ensemble in Moulin Rouge, a celebrated restaurant in posh Park Street. After someday, he performed in one other well-known restaurant Mocambo (and subsequently somewhere else) and taught jazz and classical guitar on the Calcutta School of Music within the 1990s when Jazz legend Carlton Kitto dead.
Nowroji stated the college plans to do a commemorative programme subsequent month as a tribute to Kitto, who spent the final days of his life in a dingy condo in Alimuddin Street.
Cyrus Oshidar, MD of 101India.com, who made the documentary quick “Carlton Kitto: The Final of Kolkata’s Jazz Legends” concerning the jazz icon condoled his loss of life on Fb as Jazz legend Carlton Kitto dead.
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