Singh Is King, Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King & More Options

[swarapriya]

Jagjit Singh - The Ghazal King

Jagjit Singh. He was a true legend in his own time. In a span of nearly 35 years, by several estimations, he released 80 plus discs. But during the same time, along with his singing wife Chitra (see the attached pictures below), he released nearly 400 albums. These included, apart from the individual albums, various collections of songs from his released albums. This number is truly an astonishing achievement.

Jagjit Singh, though popularly known for his ghazals, also had numerous devotional albums to his credit. He also was active in many films. He was occasionally participated in composing music for TV shows. He sang in many languages, but mostly in Hindi and his mother tongue, Punjabi.

He was decorated with innumerable awards. Prominent of these include Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Academy Award, Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Sahitya Kala Academy Award, and host of others.

I was encouraged by several members of this Forum to start a thread on Jagjitji. Finally I decided to take the plunge.

Jagjitji, who passed away in 2011 at the age of 70, left us with a legacy of overwhelming song contributions. Singhji was affectionately known as the Ghazal King. Because he lives through his work in our hearts forever, Singhji is still the King.

I will start this thread with Singhji’s discography. I split this into various parts, sorted alphabetically. Each part of the discography lists 20 albums. I will upload these parts below.

I will follow up this with a devotional album of Jagjitji.

Next, the discography…

[swarapriya]

Live in Pakistan Vol. 1

This concert held in Pakistan by Chitraji & Jagjitji yielded five albums. These came out as LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Even though quality of these albums is mostly good, some ghazals were not properly recorded. That especially is the case with this first album. The first two ghazals in this first volume are of poor audio quality. Especially the second ghazal, "Sarakti Jaaye". This is quite unfortunate because it is the second longest recorded version of this song. It was later exceeded by 80 seconds in the recording done at the Melbourne concert.

The ghazal "Raunaq-E-Maikada" is kind of an oddity. Chitraji's sound quality comes out clear whereas Jagjitji's voice for some reason is of very low audibility and is not as clear and crisp. Those who were in-charge of recording these ghazals of the concert probably realized this and seemed to have corrected the problems. The next two ghazals of this volume definitely are better sounding than the first two.

I will upload these five albums, starting today, one per week. The ghazals in this volume are posted in two back-to-back posts. Please note that because of the lengths of these two ghazals, I have to split them into two parts each. To access the ghazals it is imperative that you download both parts. Any one part will not work.

Here are the ghazals in the first post...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 7 2012, 01:50 AM

[taiyab53]

Live in Pakistan Vol. 1

This concert held in Pakistan by Chitraji & Jagjitji yielded five albums. These came out as LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Even though quality of these albums is mostly good, some ghazals were not properly recorded. That especially is the case with this first album. The first two ghazals in this first volume are of poor audio quality. Especially the second ghazal, "Sarakti Jaaye". This is quite unfortunate because it is the second longest recorded version of this song. It was later exceeded by 80 seconds in the recording done at the Melbourne concert.

The ghazal "Raunaq-E-Maikada" is kind of an oddity. Chitraji's sound quality comes out clear whereas Jagjitji's voice for some reason is of very low audibility and is not as clear and crisp. Those who were in-charge of recording these ghazals of the concert probably realized this and seemed to have corrected the problems. The next two ghazals of this volume definitely are better sounding than the first two.

I will upload these five albums, starting today, one per week. The ghazals in this volume are posted in two back-to-back posts. Please note that because of the lengths of these two ghazals, I have to split them into two parts each. To access the ghazals it is imperative that you download both parts. Any one part will not work.

Here are the ghazals in the first post...

thanks swarapriya for all these efforts to collect Jagjeet singh together,
i am having a short version of Raunaq e maikada in good soun qwality(not live pakistani recording)
enjoy

tujko dariya dili--raunaq e maikada-192 br-4.56 mins
taiyab