RANJIT BAROT

Ranjit Barot biography
Ranjit Barot is one of India's premiere drummer , started to play drums from his 12. At 17 he became known in India, playing with Jazz Yatra Sextet and Pandit Ravi Shankar's ensemble, Jazzmine.

On the Jazz Sextet?s first European tour, Ranjit met Don Cherry. He immediately took a liking to Ranjit and invited him to jam at a jazz club in Warsaw. This connection eventually led to a performance at the 1982 Jazz Yatra in Bombay.
Between 1980-82, Ranjit performed at European festivals which also featured jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Foster, Billy Higgins, Cecil Taylor and Louie Bellson, among others. Ranjit has also had a long career in composition and music production, working out of his own state-of-the-art studio facility in Mumbai.

If you live outside of India chances are you probably wouldn't know about him and his music. But with the release of Floating Point, John McLaughlin's studio CD on Abstract Logix with Ranjit on drums, he became better known all around the world.

Ranjit released his debut album, titled "Bada Boom", worldwide in November 2010, featuring some of the greatest musicians on the scene today, from India and the West. This album is a collection of Ranjit's Jazz Fusion and World compositions with performances by Ustad Zakir Hussain, John McLaughlin, U. Srinivas, U. Rajesh, Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison, Wayne Krantz, Dominique DiPiazza, Harmeet Manseta, Taufique Qureshi, Sanjay Divecha, Tim Garland, Gwilym Symcock, Ayden Esen and Elie Afif, to name a few.


bio by Slava (Snobb), based on artist site's info