John Mayer
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John Mayer; b. Oct. 28, 1930, Calcutta, India; d. Mar. 9, 2004, U.K.; violinist, composer, Indo-jazz fusion pioneer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Henry Basil Mayer was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music in the British-based group Indo-Jazz Fusions with the Jamaican-born saxophonist Joe Harriott. Mayer was born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India, to an Anglo-Indian father and Tamil mother. After studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied composition with Matyas Seiber, as well as comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures.
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