Born Cawas Khatow, tenor saxophonist Rudy Cotton and his Swing Band popularized jazz music in India
Parinaz Gandhi
Everybody knows Rudy!” announced the 1946 quarterly brochure of Piccadilly, "your rendezvous where you can listen to sweet music at tea time, cocktail hour or 8.30… As a maestro he’s a leader! This season Rudy Cotton and his Swing Band are going to give you works if you know what we mean.” While band leader, composer, arranger and saxophonist Rudy Cotton was a popular jazz musician in the middle of the last century, today even in the Parsi community few may have heard of him or be aware that born Cawas Khatow, he was the eldest of Jehangir and Roshanbanoo’s......