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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Viram Jasani
| image =
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| caption =
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name = Viram Jasani
| alias =
| birth_place = [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]]
| birth_date = 1945
| death_date =
| instrument = [[Tabla]], [[sitar]]
| genre = [[Indian classical music]]
| occupation = Musician, composer
| years_active = 1963–present
| label = [[Limelight Records]], Saydisc
| associated_acts = {{ubl|Ustad Latif Ahmed Khan|[[Gurdev Singh (musician)|Gurdev Singh]]}}
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'''Viram Jasani''' (born 1945) is a Kenyan-born Indian [[sitar]] and [[tabla]] composer and musician. He is best known for playing [[tabla]] [[drum]]s on the song "[[Black Mountain Side]]" from [[Led Zeppelin]]'s 1969 [[Led Zeppelin (album)|debut album]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fast|first=Susan|year=2001|title=In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music|url=https://archive.org/details/housesholyledzep00fast|url-access=limited|location=New York, NY|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/housesholyledzep00fast/page/n85 75]|isbn=0-19-511756-5}}</ref> He was awarded an honorary degree from the [[University of York]] in March 2007.<ref name="honorary">{{Cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/media/studenthome/graduation/graduands/Honorary%20graduands%20-%20March%202007.pdf |title=Honorary Graduates |publisher=[[University of York]] |date=13 March 2007 |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>

==Discography==
* 1972: ''Ragas: Streams of Light'' (with [[Mrinal Sen]] Gupta, Lateef Ahmed Khan & Surendra Kamat)
* 1995: ''Rags, Malkauns and Megh'' (with [[Gurdev Singh (musician)|Gurdev Singh]] & Ustad Latif Ahmed Khan)

==Notable sessions==
* 1968: soundtrack (''[[Boom! (1968 film)|Boom!]]'') by John Barry
* 1969: "[[Black Mountain Side]]" (''Led Zeppelin'')
* 1971: soundtrack (''The Trojan Women'') by Mikis Theodorakis
* 1972: ''Dream Sequence'' by Cosmic Eye
* 1973: "Emperor Nero" (''The Height Below'') by [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]]
* 2008: ''Etudes/Radha Krishna'' by [[John Mayer (composer)|John Mayer]] [recorded 1971]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Discogs artist}}
*{{Musicbrainz artist|18285edb-064a-4911-8c53-541e16588db8}}
* {{Allmusic | class = artist | id = p90289 | label = Viram Jasani | accessdate = 2012-05-10 }}
*[http://www.jazzservices.org.uk/Directory/tabid/72/Default.aspx?ContactID=7796 Asian Music Circuit]

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[[Category:1945 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Session musicians]]
[[Category:Indian drummers]]
[[Category:Kenyan emigrants to the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Kenyan people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Musicians from Nairobi]]
[[Category:Sitar players]]
[[Category:Tabla players]]
[[Category:20th-century drummers]]
[[Category:20th-century Kenyan musicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Kenyan musicians]]

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