Re: 10 Favorite Improvisers Thread

["James Pokorny" <j.pokorny@worldnet.att.net>]

In alphabetical but no other particular order; they are (or were) all great
masters of musical traditions with a strong focus on modal improvisation:

Turgun Alimatov (dotar, tanbur and sato, Uzbekistan)
Hossein Alizadeh (tar and sehtar, Iran)
Munir Bachir (oud, Iraq)
Nikhil Banerjee (sitar, India)
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (rudra vina, India)
Kazem Davoudian (santoor, Iran)
Ali Akbar Khan (sarod, India)
Ram Narayan (sarangi, India)
Arif Sag (baglama, Turkey)
Necdet Yasar (tanbur, Turkey)

As Jim said, it's hard to pick just ten.  Heck, it would be hard to narrow
it down to fifty!