Sunil Sampat talks about his journey on the road of devoting himself to jazz.
So far in the series we have read about musicians and masters of the art. But what does it means to be a music lover? How do you keep that passion alive year after year? How do you love the music?
Here is an answer to these questions... Sunil Sampat.
Sampat is a jazz enthusiast and a record collector. Sunil also writes about jazz and has been around the jazz scene since the dark days when technology was less rampant in our lives.
His love affair with jazz started when he was in Nagpur. At the age of 10, he bought his first jazz vinyl. The record was of one by jazz god Benny Goodman and that was the moment this boy from the sleepy town of Nagpur fell in love with the genre.
Yoshita Sengupta got talking to Sunil Sampat about his journey on the road of devoting himself to jazz.
Here is an excerpt from the article -
Sampat’s passion for music comes from his mother, who was a classical singer. As a little boy, he’d receive 25 paise a week as pocket money, a princely sum one would imagine since this was just after India’s Independence. Growing up in Nagpur that “had and has nothing absolutely nothing to do with jazz”, Sampat would spend the pocket money buying one 78 rpm record of mostly Hindi film music.
“Those days, in a music store, you could walk in, sit on a sofa and have an attendant play records for you till you liked something. It was lovely,” he says. One day, during his weekly pilgrimage to the music store, while someone else was being attended and the 11-year-old Sampat was waiting his turn, the attendant played a record that caught Sampat’s attention. When it was his turn, he asked the attendant to play the same record and the attendant said, “Aap ki kaam ki cheez nai hai (It’s nothing that’s of interest to you).” Sampat insisted that the attendant play it for him. “In those days, a customer was really the king. You could sit there for two hours and have him play whatever you like,” Sampat says. The attendant played the record. “It happened to be a lovely piece of Jazz; a Benny Goodman record. I told him, I’ll buy it. He said, ‘wapas nai loonga (I won’t take it back)’” Sampat says laughing.
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