Ali Akbar Khan Discography

This discography lists 30 Ali Akbar Khan recordings I own. The list is chronological by publication date (roughly; some dates are unknown). A few items are repackagings of older recordings. The cover of the 1964 Prestige LP misspells Khansahib's name as "Ali Akbar-Kahn", clearly he was not yet well known then.

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Title	Catalog	Year	Format	Tabla	Other musicians	Ragas
Master Musicians of India	Prestige 1078	1964	LP	Kanall Dutta	Ravi Shankar, sitar	Palas Kafi Bilaskhani Todi
Master Musician of India	Connoisseur Society CS 462	1966	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Chandranandan Gauri Manjari
Morning and Evening Ragas	Connoisseur Society CS 1766	1966	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Goojjari Todi Misra Mand
Anth. of Indian Music Vol. One	World Pacific WDS-26200	1967	3 LPs	Shankar Ghosh		Basant Mookhari
Ali Akbar Khan	Odeon S-MOAE 168	1967	LP	Shankar Ghosh		Medhavi Bairagi
Pre-dawn to Sunrise Ragas	Connoisseur Society CS 1967	1967	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Bairagi Aheer Bhairow
The Forty Minute Raga	Connoisseur Society CS 2008	1968	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Marwa
Ragmala	Connoisseur Society CS 2011	1969	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Jogiya-Kalingda Bhairavi Bhatiyar / Ragmala
The 80 Minute Raga	Connoisseur Society CS 2012	1969	LP	Mahapurush Misra		Kanara Prakaar
Shree Rag	Connoisseur Society CS 2015	1969	LP	Shankar Ghosh		Shree
Concert for Bangla Desh	Apple STCX 3385	1971	3 LPs	Alla Rakha	Ravi Shankar, sitar	Bangla Dhun
Bangla Desh	Connoisseur Society CS 2042	1972	LP	Shankar Ghosh		Bhim Palashree Misra Shivaranjani
Ali Akbar Khan Nikhil Banerjee Mahapurush Misra	Connoisseur Society CS 2055	1973	LP	Mahapurush Misra	Nikhil Banerjee, sitar	Manj Khammaj Misra Mand
Music for Meditation	Connoisseur Society CS 2063	1974	LP			Bilaskhani Todi
The Exotic Sitar and Sarod	Capitol T10497	n.d.	LP	Alla Rakha	Ravi Shankar, sitar	Shree Sindhu Bhairavi
Ethereal Duet	Ganesh Records DRLS 4002	n.d.	LP	Zakir Hussain	L. Subramaniam, violin Ramnad V. Raghavan, mridangam	Jog
Sarod Vadan	[Unidentified]	n.d.	Cassette	[Unidentified]		Multani Hindol-Hem Madhvi Bhairagi
The Jewels of Maihar	AAMP/CS82-3	1982	Cassette	Mahapurush Misra		Darbari Todi Bhupali Todi
Rare Artists - Rare Ragas	SNCD 21086	1986	CD	Swapan Chaudhuri		Darbari Todi Mia Ki Sarang Mishra Gara
AAMP Signature Series Vol. 1	AAMP CD9001	1990	CD	Mahapurush Misra		Chandranandan Gauri Manjari Jogiya Kalingra
AAMP Signature Series Vol. 3	AAMP CD9404	1994	CD	Mahapurush Misra Shankar Ghosh		Marwa Shivaranjani
Morning Visions	AAMP CD9406	1994	CD	Mahapurush Misra		Mian-ki Todi Sindhu Bhairavi
Legacy	AAMP 7216-2	1996	CD	Swapan Chaudhuri	Asha Bhosle, vocal	[various]
Passing on the Tradition	AAMP CD9608	1996	CD	Swapan Chaudhuri		Marwa Puriya Kalyan
Duet	RSMC-D-103	1993	CD	Zakir Hussain	L. Subramaniam, violin Ramnad V. Raghavan, mridangam	Sindhi Bhairavi
All India Radio Archival Release V. 9	SICCD 112	1997	CD			Manjh Khamaj Madhumand Sarang
From Father to Son	AAMP CD0209	2002	CD	Swapan Chaudhuri	Alam Khan, sarod	Puriya Dhanashri
Swara Samrat	AAMP CD0310	2003	CD	Swapan Chaudhuri		Narayani Gauri Chandra Dhani
Master Musician	SaReGaMa CDNF 15010	2004	CD	Zakir Hussain Swapan Chaudhuri Shankar Ghosh Swapan Chaudhuri		Ahir Bhairav Malayalam Khamaj Chhayanat
Evening Ragas / Live in S.F.	AAMP CD1979	2019	CD	Zakir Hussain		Pahadi Jhinjhoti Durgeshwari

One that got away (thankfully):
During graduate school, I owned the Connoisseur Society LP Flowers of Evil, with actress Yvette Mimieux reading poems from Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal while Khansahib played. I really hated it. A friend hosted a ritual book burning (rationale: the Nazis gave book burning a bad name, but it would be cathartic to destroy works we hated), so I burned my copy of this Mimieux/AAK collaboration. I don't regret it. As I recall, others burned Gibran's The Prophet and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.