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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?category=National&slug=Legacy%2Bof%2Bjazz%2Bmusic%2Bcontinues&id=99488 Legacy of jazz music continues Radhika Bordia Monday, January 15, 2007 (Mumbai): Eighty-year-old Joe Pereira was witness to a crucial but rarely known musical turning point in India. In the 1950s, jazz musicians, like Joe, mostly Goan Christians, were gravitating towards the Hindi film industry. They would become arrangers and players in the new emerging film orchestras. The critical period in musical history would be lost if it wasn't for the work of people like Greg Booth from Auckland University, currently working on a book on the Hindi film orchestras. Journalist Naresh Fernandes has spent years piecing together the history of Indian jazz and how jazz changed Hindi film music. His house is full of records and stories. Like that of Anthony Gonsalves. Then there's the story of the legendary arranger Sebastian and Chic Chocolate, whose name may be less known but not his tunes. That jazz era is in the past, but the legacy continues on a different note. The legacy has been inherited by talented musicians like Merlin D'souza and her 17-year-old son Rhees, who plays the saxophone.