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	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Abdul Halim was born in 1927 in Jaora (35 km away from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh) as the son of Jaffer Khan, a versatile vocalist, sitarist and [[Veena\|beenkar]]. He belonged to the Beenkar Gharana of Indore and was an All India Radio artiste since the early 1940s.<ref>~~[http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900250900.htm]~~ {{~~Webarchive~~\|~~url=~~https://web.archive.org/web/20050131214703/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900250900.htm ~~\|date=31 January 2005~~ }}, The Hindu, 19 July 1953.</ref> A few years before the [[Beatles]] met [[Ravi Shankar]], in 1958, Khan collaborated with jazz pianist and composer [[Dave Brubeck]]. Brubeck who was in Bombay through the U.S. State Department sponsored [https://www.arts.gov/NEARTS/2006v2-all-jazzed-2006-jazz-masters-awards/cool-jazz-and-cold-war Jazz Ambassadors Program] was impressed by the improvisation in Indian music and said that the experience accompanying Halim Jaffer Khan led him to play in a different way. Brubeck says of that meeting, "We understood each other." Khan also performed with the noted English classical guitarist [[Julian Bream]] in 1963.{{Citation needed\|date=September 2010}}		Abdul Halim was born in 1927 in Jaora (35 km away from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh) as the son of Jaffer Khan, a versatile vocalist, sitarist and [[Veena\|beenkar]]. He belonged to the Beenkar Gharana of Indore and was an All India Radio artiste since the early 1940s.<ref>{{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20050131214703/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900250900.htm]}}, The Hindu, 19 July 1953.</ref> A few years before the [[Beatles]] met [[Ravi Shankar]], in 1958, Khan collaborated with jazz pianist and composer [[Dave Brubeck]]. Brubeck who was in Bombay through the U.S. State Department sponsored [https://www.arts.gov/NEARTS/2006v2-all-jazzed-2006-jazz-masters-awards/cool-jazz-and-cold-war Jazz Ambassadors Program] was impressed by the improvisation in Indian music and said that the experience accompanying Halim Jaffer Khan led him to play in a different way. Brubeck says of that meeting, "We understood each other." Khan also performed with the noted English classical guitarist [[Julian Bream]] in 1963.{{Citation needed\|date=September 2010}}

	==Career==		==Career==
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	Khan has been credited with bringing Carnatic ragas Kirwani, Kanakangi, Latangi, Karaharapriya, Manavati, Ganamurti, and others into the sitar repertoire, rendering them through a Hindustani sensibility and in the Jafferkhani style. He was the first Hindustani musician to collaborate with Carnatic music in a performance with renowned Veena player [[Emani Sankara Sastry]]{{citation needed\|date=April 2018}}.		Khan has been credited with bringing Carnatic ragas Kirwani, Kanakangi, Latangi, Karaharapriya, Manavati, Ganamurti, and others into the sitar repertoire, rendering them through a Hindustani sensibility and in the Jafferkhani style. He was the first Hindustani musician to collaborate with Carnatic music in a performance with renowned Veena player [[Emani Sankara Sastry]]{{citation needed\|date=April 2018}}.

	Khan was also involved with Indian cinema. Music Director [[Khwaja Khurshid Anwar]] introduced him to the Hindi film industry in 1946 at the age of 17 when he played sitar in the songs of film ''[[Parwana (1947 film)\|Parwana]]''. He also composed and played for films like ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]]'',<ref>Kabir, N.M. & Akhtar, S. (2007). The Immortal Dialogue of K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054098/awards</ref> ''[[Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje]]'' (1971), ''[[Goonj Uthi Shehnai]]'' (1959), ''[[Kohinoor (1960 film)\|Kohinoor]]'' (1960) and collaborated with noted music directors such as [[Vasant Desai]], [[C. Ramachandra]], [[Madan Mohan (music director)\|Madan Mohan]] and [[Naushad]] who has said, "he not only enriched film music, but his participation lent prestige to my songs."<ref>Dhaneshwar, Amarendra. [http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid=20100219201002190231323789da5e29a ''Strings Attached''] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702222607/http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid%3D20100219201002190231323789da5e29a \|date= 2 July 2010 }}, "The Times of India", 19 February 2010.</ref>		Khan was also involved with Indian cinema. Music Director [[Khwaja Khurshid Anwar]] introduced him to the Hindi film industry in 1946 at the age of 17 when he played sitar in the songs of film ''[[Parwana (1947 film)\|Parwana]]''. He also composed and played for films like ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]]'',<ref>Kabir, N.M. & Akhtar, S. (2007). The Immortal Dialogue of K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054098/awards\|title = Mughal-E-Azam - IMDb\|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref> ''[[Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje]]'' (1971), ''[[Goonj Uthi Shehnai]]'' (1959), ''[[Kohinoor (1960 film)\|Kohinoor]]'' (1960) and collaborated with noted music directors such as [[Vasant Desai]], [[C. Ramachandra]], [[Madan Mohan (music director)\|Madan Mohan]] and [[Naushad]] who has said, "he not only enriched film music, but his participation lent prestige to my songs."<ref>Dhaneshwar, Amarendra. [http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid=20100219201002190231323789da5e29a ''Strings Attached''] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702222607/http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid%3D20100219201002190231323789da5e29a \|date= 2 July 2010 }}, "The Times of India", 19 February 2010.</ref>

	In 1976, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan created the Halim Academy of Sitar in Mumbai, India.{{citation needed\|date=August 2018}}		In 1976, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan created the Halim Academy of Sitar in Mumbai, India.{{citation needed\|date=August 2018}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1927|02|18}}
| birth_place = [[Jaora]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and given age|df=yes|2017|1|4|89}}
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], India
| genre = [[Hindustani classical music]]
| occupation = Sitarist, Composer, Innovator, Author
| instrument = [[sitar]]
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| label = Various
| associated_acts = Nikhil Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Julian Bream, Dave Brubeck, Zunain Khan
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'''Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan''' (18 February 1927 – 4 January 2017) was an Indian [[sitar]] player. Khan received the national awards [[Padma Shri]] (1970) and [[Padma Bhushan]] (2006) and was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] for 1987.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Padma Awards|publisher=[[Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)|Ministry of Communications and Information Technology]]|url=http://india.gov.in/myindia/advsearch_awards.php?start=0&award_year=&state=&field=3&p_name=Jaffer&award=All |access-date=17 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees – Instrumental – Sitar |publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] |url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm#InstrumentalSitar |access-date=17 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530204253/http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/awardeeslist.htm |archive-date=30 May 2015 }}</ref>

==Early life==
Abdul Halim was born in 1927 in Jaora (35 km away from Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh) as the son of Jaffer Khan, a versatile vocalist, sitarist and [[Veena|beenkar]]. He belonged to the Beenkar Gharana of Indore and was an All India Radio artiste since the early 1940s.<ref>[http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900250900.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050131214703/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/07/19/stories/2003071900250900.htm |date=31 January 2005 }}, The Hindu, 19 July 1953.</ref> A few years before the [[Beatles]] met [[Ravi Shankar]], in 1958, Khan collaborated with jazz pianist and composer [[Dave Brubeck]]. Brubeck who was in Bombay through the U.S. State Department sponsored [https://www.arts.gov/NEARTS/2006v2-all-jazzed-2006-jazz-masters-awards/cool-jazz-and-cold-war Jazz Ambassadors Program] was impressed by the improvisation in Indian music and said that the experience accompanying Halim Jaffer Khan led him to play in a different way. Brubeck says of that meeting, "We understood each other." Khan also performed with the noted English classical guitarist [[Julian Bream]] in 1963.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}

==Career==
Khan is known for his own style ''Jafferkhani Baaj''.<ref>Mark Slobin; Frank Kouwenhoven Co-editor, CHIME; Ruth Hellier; Carole Pegg; Gerry Farrell Ethnomusicology Forum, 1741-1920, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123–132</ref> He describes it as, "a synthesis of precision in technique, systematic thought"<ref>Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer. Jafferkhani Baaj: Innovation in Sitar Music. Kohinoor Printers, 2000.</ref> with a vigorous playing style. Cultural anthropologist and reader at the University of Mumbai, Dr. Kamala Ganesh states: "His music making is full of eclectic yet deeply informed choices. He is a thinking musician but puts across his complex views with a simplicity and feeling which demarcate the articulate performer from the articulate theoretician.... In him, one gets an unmistakable sense... a syncretic tradition".<ref>Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer. Jafferkhani Baaj: Innovation in Sitar Music. Kohinoor Printers, 2000</ref> The Indian santoor player [[Shivkumar Sharma]] remembers of Khan's performance of the raga Chhayanat: "It was probably in 1955–56, I was relaxing in my terrace in Jammu. In the stillness of the night I heard the notes of Raga Chhayanat on the sitar emanate from my neighbor's radio. I immediately noticed that the tone of the sitar was completely different and the style of playing radically unique. I rushed to switch on my radio.... I was totally engrossed and was very curious to know who this maestro was."<ref>Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer. Jafferkhani Baaj: Innovation in Sitar Music. Kohinoor Printers, 2000.</ref>

Khan has been credited with bringing Carnatic ragas Kirwani, Kanakangi, Latangi, Karaharapriya, Manavati, Ganamurti, and others into the sitar repertoire, rendering them through a Hindustani sensibility and in the Jafferkhani style. He was the first Hindustani musician to collaborate with Carnatic music in a performance with renowned Veena player [[Emani Sankara Sastry]]{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}.

Khan was also involved with Indian cinema. Music Director [[Khwaja Khurshid Anwar]] introduced him to the Hindi film industry in 1946 at the age of 17 when he played sitar in the songs of film ''[[Parwana (1947 film)|Parwana]]''. He also composed and played for films like ''[[Mughal-e-Azam]]'',<ref>Kabir, N.M. & Akhtar, S. (2007). The Immortal Dialogue of K. Asif's Mughal-e-Azam. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054098/awards</ref> ''[[Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje]]'' (1971), ''[[Goonj Uthi Shehnai]]'' (1959), ''[[Kohinoor (1960 film)|Kohinoor]]'' (1960) and collaborated with noted music directors such as [[Vasant Desai]], [[C. Ramachandra]], [[Madan Mohan (music director)|Madan Mohan]] and [[Naushad]] who has said, "he not only enriched film music, but his participation lent prestige to my songs."<ref>Dhaneshwar, Amarendra. [http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid=20100219201002190231323789da5e29a ''Strings Attached''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702222607/http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=Entertainment%20-%20Music&sectid=135contentid%3D20100219201002190231323789da5e29a |date= 2 July 2010 }}, "The Times of India", 19 February 2010.</ref>

In 1976, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan created the Halim Academy of Sitar in Mumbai, India.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}
[[File:Halim Academy of Sitar.jpg|thumb|Sitarist Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan at the Halim Academy of Sitar with Chief guest, Sarodist Amjad Ali Khan, and philanthropist and Chair of Dr. Sushilarani-Baburao Patel Trust, Neela Shinde]]

==Death==
Khan died on 4 January 2017, at his home in [[Mumbai]], India, from [[cardiac arrest]], aged 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/sitar-maestro-ustad-abdul-halim-dead/articleshow/56348230.cms|title=Sitar maestro Ustad Abdul Halim dead|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=5 January 2017|date=4 January 2016|author=Bella Jaisinghani}}</ref>

==Works and awards==
===Select awards===
* Tagore Fellow of Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2012<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sangeetnatak.gov.in/sna/citation_popup.php?id=140&at=4 |title=Sangeet Natak Akademi citation |website=sangeetnatak.gov.in |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
* [[Padma Bhushan]] (Government of India) in 2006<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Padma-Awards-2006/229951 |title=Padma Awards 2006 |date=25 January 2006 |work=outlookindia.com/ |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
* Lifetime Achievement Award (Legends of India) in 2005<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://legendsofindia.org/site/lifetime.html |title=Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Awards |website=Legends of India |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319191740/http://legendsofindia.org/site/lifetime.html |archive-date=19 March 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
* Haafiz Ali Khan Award (Haafiz Ali Khan Memorial Trust) in 1992<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sarod.com/hafiz_ali_khan_a.html |title=Haafiz Ali Khan Awards |website=www.sarod.com |access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref>
* Shikhar Samman (Government of Madhya Pradesh) in 1991
* Gaurav Puraskar (Government of Maharashtra) in 1990
* [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] 1987
* [[Padma Shri]] (Government of India) in 1970

===Video===
Narrated by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Deben Bhattacharya's film ''Raga'' features a young virtuosic Halim Jaffer Khan playing raga Sindh Bhairavi.

===Select discography===
* 75th Celebration Swar Sadhna (Raag Zila Kafi)
* 70th Birthday Release (Raag Tilak Kamod, Raag Jaijaiwanti, Raag Sindhi Bhairavi)
* Columbia (EP) (Raag Mand, Raag Ahir Bhairav)
* Enchanting Sitar (Raag Aarabi, Raag Multani)
* Guzra Zamana (Live in Concert- 1968) (Raag Abhogi)
* His Master's Voice (EP) (Chakra dhun, Thumri in Deepchandi taal)
* Immortal Series: Vol 1 (Raag Pahadi, Raag Kedar); Vol 2 (Raag Kirwani, Raag Jaunpuri)
* Instrumental Classical: Sitar (Raag Jaijaiwanti, Raag Sindhi Bhairavi)
* Lilting Strings (Raag Bhairavi, Raag [[Gaud Sarang]], Raag Kamod, Raag Rageshri, Raag Shyam Kalyan, Raag Yaman Kalyan)
* Live in Jaipur 1968
* A Night at the Valley (Raag Kirwani, Raag Marwa, Raag Pahadi, Chakradhun, Thumri)
* Sangeet Suman (Raag Patdeep, Raag Shyam Kedar)
* Sitar Quintet (Raag Chandani Kedar, Raag Mazamiri, Raag Khusravani, Raag Sharavati, Raag Kalpana, Raag Miya ki Malhaar)
* Sitar Through the Ages [Soofiyana rang, Raag Bhimpalasi, Raag Zila Kafi, Raag Farghana]
* Sitar Ecstasy [Raag Hemavati, Raag Jaitshri, Sufiana Sama (dhun)]
* Theme on Strings (Raag Saraswat Ranjani, Sitar Anjuman, Hulban)
* Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Raag Champakali, Raag Chhaya Nat, Raag Mishra Pilu)
* Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Raag Jaunpuri, Raag Rajeshwari, Raag Anand Bhairav, Thumri)
* Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Raag Araj, Raag Madhyami)
* Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan (Raag Marwa, Raag Pahadi)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*''Jafferkhani Baaj: Innovation in Sitar Music.'' Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer. Jafferkhani Baaj: Innovation in Sitar Music. Kohinoor Printers, 2000.

==External links==
*{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p376029|label=Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110614221829/http://www.itcsra.org/sra_story/sra_story_guru/sra_story_guru_links/sra_story_guru_gharana/sitar.html The Beenkar Gharana], ''[[ITC Sangeet Research Academy]]'', Kolkata, 2001.
* [http://www.jafferkhanibaaj.com JafferKhaniBaaj] - Official Website
* [http://www.indrayanikaathi.com/2014/04/sitarists-sitarist.html The Sitarist's Sitarist]
{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 2000–09}}
{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}

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