Dizzy Sal (8 November 1934 – 25 July 1998), born Edward Saldanha, was an Indian jazz pianist. He was a student at the

Lenox School of Jazz The Lenox School of Jazz was a summer programme of jazz education from 1957-1960, at the Music Barn in Lenox, Massachusetts. Faculty included Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Giuffre, Percy Heath, Larry Ridley, Connie Kay, Jim Hall, Ralph Peña, Max Roa ...

, and the Berklee School of Music. It is believed that he popularized jazz in Bollywood.

Life

Saldanha was born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1934. Saldanha came from a musical family, three brothers played in a band in Kuwait. He made his début aged 5 on

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. His meeting with

Dave Brubeck David Warren Brubeck (; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasti ...

is documented in the 2011 book ''Taj-Mahal Foxtrot'', by Naresh Fernandes. He performed his own ''Relaxin' At Music Inn'' as well as Wes Montgomery’s ''Jingles'' and Gary McFarland's ''Monk's Sphere'' and ''Summer Day'', as part of the "Bill Evans, Jim Hall, Connie Kay Ensemble", at the third annual benefit concert at the Lennox School of Jazz, 29 August 1959. Dizzy Sal brought jazz to Bollywood, according to Jazz researcher John J Langdon IV.

Discography

* ''Jazz in the Classroom Volume 5: Haasan's Dream'' (1961) with Petar Spassov * Ken McIntyre - '' Stone Blues'' *

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...

- ''The Lenox Jazz School Concert: August 29, 1959'' (2009)

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Picture of Dizzy Sal
from the (Lenox) School of Jazz Photo Scrapbook *
America's Original Ambassador of Cool
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Those Jazzy Days
The Pioneer, Shrabasti Mallik, 8 May 2015 1934 births 1998 deaths Indian jazz musicians Jazz pianists 20th-century pianists {{Jazz-pianist-stub

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