John Mayer (b. Calcutta, Bengal, British India, October 28, 1930; d. United Kingdom, March 9, 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music. He was born into an Anglo-Indian family and, 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 comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures. Wikipedia
Born into extreme poverty in the Chandni Chawk section of Calcutta, Mayer played the violin for food as a child. www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1079642692
It was with the group Indo-Jazz Fusions that the career of the pioneer and visionary John Mayer, who has died aged 73 following a road accident, really came to a head. arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,12723,1168517,00.html
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for John Mayer. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mayer_%28composer%29
