Ravi Shankar

Dick Bock & Ravi Shankar

January 4, 2013 By James Harrod Leave a Comment

A commemorative booklet included in THE ANTHOLOGY OF INDIAN MUSIC VOLUME ONE (World Pacific WDS-26200) has a brief closing remembrance by Dick Bock wherein he recalls his first meeting with Ravi Shankar. This recollection does not agree with Ravi Shankar’s own recollection published in RAGA MALA – an autobiography RAVI SHANKAR (Welcome Rain Publishers, 1997), […]

Pacific Jazz Locations

June 30, 2012 By James Harrod Leave a Comment

Frequent visitors to this blog will have noticed a variety of addresses for Pacific Jazz / World Pacific on the backs of the EP covers and catalogues. The first location was at 6124 Santa Monica Boulevard above the retail space for Roy Harte’s and Remo Belli’s DRUM CITY. The space was an apartment that Roy […]